Why not?
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Am I on ring or radial sockets (test results included)
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and again, why not? It is a completely legitimate way to provide a number of sockets, in an area, very versatile, but suites some locations and designs, better than others. If what you have is a ring, there is nothing wrong with upgrading it, within the regulations.
Rings are allowed, nothing has changed.
However people should consider whether a ring really is an appropriate design for the particular installation, and not just shove them in as if it's some kind of required thing that must be done because 80 years ago a committee formed to deal with the problems of construction and materials shortages following WW2 said it was.
Cut in in half and make it into 2 radials.
Better still keep it as a good old ring final circuit 
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So someone asking to add one extra socket you would tell them to replace the 32 amp mcb with 2 x 20 amp mcbs, (if there is even space)find the middle then split it, then add the socket? OK.
Nonsense!
You are prejudiced against a perfectly sound, reliable, and within the rules method of providing sockets. Perhaps your mother was frightened by a ring circuit, when you were born?
You can't use the term "live" in that context - even if it is a Don't DIY (DIY NOT) forum - as the term literally has a meaning which is different to how it is being misused.
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Perhaps you'd have been better off writing what terms should have been used.
The first one minute of this video indicates that,
although Ring Circuits are permitted in the UK (and a few other countries),
the presenter does not think that they are a good idea.
Just because the presenter has a personal opinion does not make that a fact.
We all have personal opinions about this, that and the other.
It does not make our opinion correct, even partly correct and not even if our opinion is a majority opinion or not does not make that opinion correct or incorrect.
Most of us would like to get our opinion across favourably.
Some of the folk presenting really good, well presented videos with excellent explanations sometimes over egg their own opinions.
There is at least one contributor to this forum who might sometimes over egg his own opinions a little bit.
I can also think of one forum member who disagrees with my view on the Ring Final Circuit.
That does not make my opinion correct and his incorrect, or vice versa, it just means we have a difference of opinion on one thing, whether we mostly agree about most other subjects or not.
Whether or not the majority agrees/disagrees with my stance or his stance or partly of each stance for multiple reasons is not really relevant.
A statement such as "
Any MCB (Miniature Circuit Braker) (or RCBO) rated at 32 A (or there abouts) is almost certainly protecting a Ring circuit.
which really should not be used installed or upgraded - in this "day and age".
" is not really true, is it?
I became aware that a teaching provider said "Forgot rings, they are old hat, we don`t do them anymore".
I thought that was bordering on scandalous. Even if all ring finals were banned today for evermore there would still be millions in place that need testing, working on for additions/alterations/repair for years to come.
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In Electricity more than most. It will always happen
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Remember that Risteard thinks the only point of the forum is to provide a platform for his supercilious grandstanding.
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No, he doesn't.
He wishes he did, but rather than move there he pretends that the country he lives in is illegitimate, he expects people to believe his fiction, and when they do not he responds with hate speech and abuse.
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