Hi everyone this is my first post so be kind to me..
I have just built a two bedroom extension to my 1985 house and need some advice please.
I will be having the walls dot and dabbed to hold the plaster board on and need to know some of the rules governing how to install the cabling in the two new bed rooms and the three new rooms down stairs so here goes with all my questions:
1.
can I just extend the existing ring main in the existing 3 bedrooms into the new 2 bedrooms? and if so what depth and what size hole do I need to make in the new joyce which I need to drill through?
2.
Do I need some metal covering over the cable and behind the plaster board when I come up the wall in the new bedrooms?
3.
Can I just extend the lighting circuit from the other bedrooms into the new bedrooms?
4.
Are you aloud to run 2.5 cables for a ring main horizonlaly around a room plus is there a limit on how many sockets I can have on the ring as I am looking to extend my existing ring into the new build.
5.
Can you run cat 5 and tv/phone cables with the mains cables when going through joist? and how often do I need to clip them in the joist voide?
Now for the new Kitchen bit...
1.
I need to run in a new cooker cable however I have an existing one in my old kitchen so can I just joint that one....(I bet I cant!!!)..
2.
Can I extend the existing earth and ring main to the new kitchen?
3.
How close can I have a socket to the sink?
4.
Can I just run a 13a spur of the kitchen ring main to feed the under cubboard lighting?
THE END...
Sorry for the long post .
Thanks in advance .
I have just built a two bedroom extension to my 1985 house and need some advice please.
I will be having the walls dot and dabbed to hold the plaster board on and need to know some of the rules governing how to install the cabling in the two new bed rooms and the three new rooms down stairs so here goes with all my questions:
1.
can I just extend the existing ring main in the existing 3 bedrooms into the new 2 bedrooms? and if so what depth and what size hole do I need to make in the new joyce which I need to drill through?
2.
Do I need some metal covering over the cable and behind the plaster board when I come up the wall in the new bedrooms?
3.
Can I just extend the lighting circuit from the other bedrooms into the new bedrooms?
4.
Are you aloud to run 2.5 cables for a ring main horizonlaly around a room plus is there a limit on how many sockets I can have on the ring as I am looking to extend my existing ring into the new build.
5.
Can you run cat 5 and tv/phone cables with the mains cables when going through joist? and how often do I need to clip them in the joist voide?
Now for the new Kitchen bit...
1.
I need to run in a new cooker cable however I have an existing one in my old kitchen so can I just joint that one....(I bet I cant!!!)..
2.
Can I extend the existing earth and ring main to the new kitchen?
3.
How close can I have a socket to the sink?
4.
Can I just run a 13a spur of the kitchen ring main to feed the under cubboard lighting?
THE END...
Sorry for the long post .
Thanks in advance .