boiler spur or on ring?

[dtokez]

Hi all. I have just moved house, and we are currently re-wiring. An electrician said to me that we should run a spur, but the only reasoning he gave was so it could be turned off if it needed to be worked on but surely you just turn the socket off? Its currently plugged into a wall socket.

Not sure if it is a regulation or what?

 

[User]

I don't know if it's reg but I advise you to use spur it looks far better and professional and I would always recommend it but I doubt it's reg but it's almost always done like that nowadays

 

[simond]

Regulations class a boiler as a permanent piece of equipment; permanent equipment should be connected in a permanent fashion, eg; for a boiler it should be an FCU.

However, many maintenance techs prefer a plug because it is a positive form of isolation, not subject to blundering diyers miswiring FCUs.