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they feed a small ring main with 5 double sockets, a lighting circuit and an immersion heater. What size should I put in to be safe. I am adding a new ring main with 6 sockets and a new lighting circuit?

On investigation last night I think I will put a new cu in the barn and run my new circuits to that. It is an old one and looks like it needs updating anyway!! the service to the barn is from the cu in the house off of a 40mcb and then 6mm t&e cable. Is this sufficient? Thank for all your help!!

its a sub main from the house

thanks Spark123. The barn has its own cu already with two 32mcb and a 10mcb. The room I am converting has no electrics in it and I want it to have its own supply and not extend the existing ring main and lighting circuit. The consumer unit in the barn has no spare slots left to feed a new small...

I am converting a room in my barn and putting in a ring main with 6 sockets and a separate lighting main both fed from a small consumer unit. I need to take a supply from the main consumer unit to it but this is full, is there anyway round not buying a larger consumer unit by perhaps feeding it...