humbly calling all those in the know...
I'm refitting my (small) kitchen and need 3-4 additional sockets. From what I've garnered on this forum and elsewhere, I've narrowed my probable best options down to 2: a fused radial sub-circuit from an unused socket in an adjacent room, or extending ring from same via 2 jb's.
Two highest consumers for for new sockets likely to be microwave, kettle and coffee maker: everything else taken care of by existing ring sockets. My questions are:
1. In terms of safety, is one or the other of above options preferable (or indeed necessary)?
2. Would the existence of such a radial have any bearing on the number of spurs I might subsequently run off the ring main?
and, slightly off-track, but while-I'm-here kind of thing:
I'm a bit unclear re the spur regs for single/double sockets. If a single on the ring can be converted to double, can that double then feed a double as a spur, or just a single, or neither?
Much obliged for having stayed with me this far...
I'm refitting my (small) kitchen and need 3-4 additional sockets. From what I've garnered on this forum and elsewhere, I've narrowed my probable best options down to 2: a fused radial sub-circuit from an unused socket in an adjacent room, or extending ring from same via 2 jb's.
Two highest consumers for for new sockets likely to be microwave, kettle and coffee maker: everything else taken care of by existing ring sockets. My questions are:
1. In terms of safety, is one or the other of above options preferable (or indeed necessary)?
2. Would the existence of such a radial have any bearing on the number of spurs I might subsequently run off the ring main?
and, slightly off-track, but while-I'm-here kind of thing:
I'm a bit unclear re the spur regs for single/double sockets. If a single on the ring can be converted to double, can that double then feed a double as a spur, or just a single, or neither?
Much obliged for having stayed with me this far...