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I am having a loft conversion and have a hob extractor fan that vents into a chimney. My builder is telling me today that he can remove the chimney and he can put in a vent and vent under the floorboards in the loft instead. I said is this ok and he is telling me yes. Does this sound right as...

I have a extarctor hood that currently vents into a chimney. There is no other use for this chimney. I am having a loft conversion and need to do something with the chimney for the dormer. If this chimney was lowered and capped with air bricks added is this sufficient for the extractor hood...

Ah, I see. So it is really just the terminology here. Spurs v branch. You knew what I meant so it looks fine. I always suspected it was but as all the floorboards are up etc now is a good time to sort everything out. Thanks :D

Seen the reply on BS434 - thanks. To be honest I know the rules on spurs not exceeding existing sockets etc. I now have 1 person saying I can run a spur from a radial and one saying I can't. As i said everything I have seen only talks of spurs from a ring main not a radial. If someone could...

So the BS434 comment is irrelevant then? I am talking about wiring in the home.... I don't understand why the BS4343 was mentioned???

Thanks - I am reassured now. The majority is 2.5mm but there is some original wiring (advised this is lead wiring) between two sockets. I am going to relace this with 2.5mm The BS4343 has cmpletely confused me though. I have searched and anything Ican see related to BS4343 do not look like...

Thanks. I wasn't sure as everything I have read talks about spurs running off a ring circuit - not a radial. That is why I wanted confirmation.

In one of my upstairs rooms I have 3 double sockets. This is not a ring but a radial circuit. The curcuit is fed from a 16Amp breaker on the consumer unit (installed by an electrician last year - I say 16Amp as it is labelled as B16...)???? There is a spur running from a junction box on this...