We've liberally splattered safety warnings throughout our web site however when it comes to electrical diy you need to be especially careful, not only when doing the installation should care be taken you should also ensure you know what you are doing and why.

You may only want to add a spur socket to run a table lamp and thus you may be tempted to use a lighting grade cable this is fine as long as you only use the socket, what would happen if the vacuum cleaner was plugged in there? Most likely the cable would burn out and either cause a fire or blow your house electrics.

Thus it is vital you ensure any electrical diy work meets with the current regulations. These rules chaged in January 2005 and now fixed electrical wiring can only be installed by competent people which means you need to get a registered electrician in.