Extending A Circuit When Rewiring

Hi,

I'm carrying out a rewire of my property - as I'm doing the work in stages (mainly room by room) it means alot of trips out for my BCO as he can't just do a single first fix visit and then 2nd fix and inspection of my tests (which he has already specified is how he wants to do it).

Special locations aside, is there anything to stop me wiring a single socket to a room as a RFC, carrying out test and inspection, getting it signed off, then adding sockets as and where I see fit closer to the time (in accordance with the regs) when I move onto that room?

I get the feeling I can't, but since the addition of socket outlets isn't notifiable I'm not sure why....

Cheers,

To clarify, tests and retests would still be carried out, and MWC would be issued, only the final notification stage wouldn't happen.

Firstly it depends on what the room is - if it is a kitchen then the work will be notifiable.
If it is a non notifiable area then you don't need to notify addition of sockets - the only down side is you may find it a lot more work and be more awkward to extend a ring as opposed to doing it all in one shot.

Thanks Spark,

Yes, I'm thinking specifically of lounge and bedrooms.

I'm just not sure the BCO would be happy signing off an install with only a single socket in each room - but if there is no reason for him not to then I guess it doesn't really matter...

Don't see any legal reason why not, I think Scottish building regs have something about the amount of sockets in a room but the England/Wales ones don't.