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Sorry for going quiet, I was away for a few days. Thankyou to all who replied, let me see if I've got my options straight here. 1) If I want to divide it into two rings (e.g. one upstairs, one downstairs) I can't use junction boxes to spur from, only sockets. (I am tempted to do that, and...

I can't have a ring downstairs as the house has a solid concrete floor. Sorry, but ripping up the quarry tiles in the kitchen and the parquet in the hall and lounge in order to channel in some cables is NOT an option... Apart from the kitchen which has a circuit down one side which runs in...

Thanks to all who've replied, and thanks to the forum administrator for posting the diagrams I sent. I'm sorry I kept on, but I always like to understand the whys of something, rather than just accepting what I'm told. But this time I'll have to accept it, because I still don't understand it...

I'm very sorry but I'm even more confused - not on how to do things, but why. Some people say that you can't have more spurs than sockets. Not having more than 1 socket on 1 spur I can understand, but not this. And then if I make a second ring, which people say I should, I would have a ring...

It's worth a try. What about making 2 rings? Do you know why I can't have more spurs than sockets?

Sorry - was just being a bit thick - wanted to make sure it really did mean what it said, 'cos a) I've already got more than that (7 sockets upstairs, and 8 downstairs) b) It doesn't really make sense to me - it seems as though I could fix (a) by adding another socket upstairs. One on the...

Thanks for that. OK to leave the 2.5mm in, or should I replace it with 4mm? I was thinking as well about splitting the upstairs/downstairs rings, but that would mean downstairs was all spurs. What does "you cant have more spurs than you have sockets on the ring" mean? I havent gone...

My house has a solid ground floor, and when I was replacing some unswitched sockets with switched ones downstairs, I noticed that they were all wired as spurs, with the cable dropping down conduit buried in the walls. When I lifted some floorboards upstairs I found that the sockets up there are...