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That roofing felt socket cover is awesome, I can just imagine the guy sitting down after a hard days work with his beer in hand explaining to his wife how much money he just saved.

You live in the filthy south, it could range from anything between a bucket of jellied eels or a monkey. :lol: Seriously though just contact a few electricians in your area for a quote. Rgds carp

8.5kw pulls 37A So yeah that will fit nicely with a 6mm cable and 40A circuit breaker. providing that you 'DO' have a 6mm cable and the circuit is protected by an RCD. Rgds Carp

10.5kw shower will pull 45.7A So fitting a 40A will still cause tripping of the MCB. Assuming your cable 'is' 6mm it has a current carrying capacity of 47A. I'm guessing that you have recently upgraded the shower ?? I would suggest you either down grade the shower or replace the...

Ezekiel, I can tell you how i revised and passed the 2391 i dug out my copy of GN3 and read it back to front , then condensed all the information down to 3 pages of A4. The one thing that really must be spot on with the 2391 is terminology for example EIC should be written as Electrical...

Husbands attempt to cash in the insurance policy early :D :D

I'm going tomorrow for a few days cant wait :D :D :D

The socket you have traced back to in the bedroom would be expected to have 3 T&E cables connected.(Two cables for the ring and one for the spur) When you are separating the red wires and removing them from the circuit you are splitting the ring, if you energise the circuit with the red wires...

Wrong! you will have 2 appliances plugged in each fused at 13A max..

Once ?

A double socket will still have a current rating of 13A and will not be fused at 26A however you could possibly pull 13A per socket which would equal 26A. As suggested by replacing the existing spur with a 13A FCU and continuing onto the sockets the install will be protected.

Unfortunatly you cannot spur of a spur. You have a couple of options:- 1. Run a spur of a different socket from the bedroom below into attic. 2. Extend the ring into the attic. You are allowed a single spur of each socket on the ring. Rgds Carpman

The Energy consumption is 3.84kWh/cycle. This states the amount of power the machine consumes over it cycle. You will find that this machine is rated at alot less likely to be around 2kW so all will be good from a 13A socket. Install a 20A radial to a 13A socket in 2.5mm T&E on the RCD...

Sorry i was being a little unclear whilst in general a 32A would be fine for a ring circuit , however from the information you have provided as stated in other posts you would need to fit a 20A MCB on the RCD side of the consumer unit. Are you sure the appliance rating is correct?? is it some...

On the subject of certification and due to the proposed install being supplied via the Henley block connection, am i right in thinking that an electrical installation certificate on the mini CU and new circuit only would be required ?

Excellent!! thankyou very much for the information :)

Thankyou for the reply i was hoping there was going to be some spare way's unfortunatly there isnt and the CU is very old. There are a couple of options i agree :- 1. Main CU upgrade 2. Seperate mini CU 3. RCD protected outdoor socket from existing circuit. I'm atm leaning towards...

Yes the 32A MCB would be fine if you were installing a 2.5mm ring circuit.

32A MCB would not be acceptable for 2.5mm T&E as the current carrying capacity of this cable is lower than the MCB. Use a 20A MCB with 2.5mm T&E, you will require RCD protection for this circuit. Depending wether or not you have an RCD on your current consumer unit you may be able to...