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Yes, I would have bitten the bullet and done much the same had Mike P not come up with a bright suggestion. It would have been easier for me to feed a new length than your dot and dab situation. I could easily splice in a new piece of capping and finish the wall, but the cut-out in the ceiling...

Good suggestion. That's the way I'll go then. Thanks again. I can only pull down existing slack in the ceiling void. I have no access to lay new cable up there without more hassle than I want to get involved in.

Thanks for that very practical suggestion mate. That's the way I'm going to go. I'll fit a new back box and a 2 gang socket as you suggest. Plenty available to pull down and I can pull another section in from socket below if I need more slack. I can use the new socket to power an adjacent...

Yes, it is indeed capping, not conduit. Sorry if I misled anyone. I can't pull another full length though. It could be either the cable up the wall across the ceiling and down the opposite wall, or, the loop up into the ceiling and through the joists and down the same wall a few feet away. It...

That's correct. I want to conceal in what is a confined space and plaster over . Thanks for all responses.

I was adding some shelving supports in my study and totally ignored the obvious cable drop to the socket below. Not much of a flash/bang and and I stopped drilling when I heard the RCD trip. After taking a club hammer and chisel to the problem, it turned out that I had drilled through the...