Spur for TV

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Sorry if this is a muppet question but I'm looking to spur off the ring main for a fused spur with flex outlet for a wall mounted tv in the kitchen/breakfast room in my house. Above the breakfast room where the tv is, there is the attic for the garage and breakfast room as it's single story. I was intending to spur off the ring main in the attic with a junction box and run a cable down the exterior stud wall (timber frame house) and put the fused spur flex outlet in the wall behind the tv. Couple of questions:

1) Is this ok regs wise?
2) what size cable for the supply side of the spur?
3) Is this the best way of doing it?

Thanks in advance.
Tony
 
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You would use 2.5 mm twin and earth cable. You would sleeve the bare earth with green and yellow sleeving.

Why a fused spur? You could use a single or a double socket.

You would have to confirm that you are spurring directly off the ring circuit, and not something that is already a spur.

Timber framed houses usually have a vapour barrier that you would probably end up destroying.
 
Thanks for the info.

I'm using a fused spur because there's no room for a plug to fit behind the tv as it's a flat tv bracket and the flex plate spur would be flatter to the wall. I was going to put a socket in the attic and run the IEC lead thorugh the cavity but I read somewhere this is a no no. Plus it wouldn't be convenient for isolating the tv.
 

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