well this has got out of hand due to a handyman with little electrical knowledge and geiraint that has contributed NOTHING useful at all!
OP, read the links BAS suggested, you ought to be concerned about other things like main bonding and running cables for that and also about what types of circuit cables you will be running and how they will be routed, what materials will they be run in ect. You dont need a ring upstairs, downstairs or in the kitchen. Infact, if you did and the socket circuit had a fault upstairs then you would have no power up there atall! Also you are running two lots of cable around the house for no real benefit assuming that it is all being wired from the first floor floor. Socket wise - you could wire the front two rooms on one circuit (ring or radieal) the back two rooms on a different circuit (again ring or radial) For there circuits I would almost guarantee that 20A radials would suffice, talk about it with your spark, youy kitchen could be wired in a 32A RFC, depending on the routing of the cablesa and what factors are being applied to them, or course you could run two or more 20Amp radials for sockets, one or more 32Amp radials ect. how about a seperate circuit for your appliances and maybe your fridge freezer. If possible I think it is a good idea to have your boiler on it's own circuit, either with an independant RCD or an RCD free circuit if possible, this way only a boiler fault is going to make you lose the boiler.
As you can tell, socket circuits questions are only scratching the surface. Consider a few things and build it up untill you have a well stocked brain of information to discuss with your sparky.
OP, read the links BAS suggested, you ought to be concerned about other things like main bonding and running cables for that and also about what types of circuit cables you will be running and how they will be routed, what materials will they be run in ect. You dont need a ring upstairs, downstairs or in the kitchen. Infact, if you did and the socket circuit had a fault upstairs then you would have no power up there atall! Also you are running two lots of cable around the house for no real benefit assuming that it is all being wired from the first floor floor. Socket wise - you could wire the front two rooms on one circuit (ring or radieal) the back two rooms on a different circuit (again ring or radial) For there circuits I would almost guarantee that 20A radials would suffice, talk about it with your spark, youy kitchen could be wired in a 32A RFC, depending on the routing of the cablesa and what factors are being applied to them, or course you could run two or more 20Amp radials for sockets, one or more 32Amp radials ect. how about a seperate circuit for your appliances and maybe your fridge freezer. If possible I think it is a good idea to have your boiler on it's own circuit, either with an independant RCD or an RCD free circuit if possible, this way only a boiler fault is going to make you lose the boiler.
As you can tell, socket circuits questions are only scratching the surface. Consider a few things and build it up untill you have a well stocked brain of information to discuss with your sparky.
