Branched ring socket layout

[Matty13]

Morning all, I have taken some great advice from this forum for quite a lot of my renovation tasks.

The current stumbling block though. I have a full rewire happening by my mate who’s a professional electrician. He said to save some time and money for me to do the first fix’s and maybe start on getting some cables in. I don’t want to keep bothering him so thought I’d come here for answers for a problem I haven’t seen posted before which also may help others in the future with a similar problem.

I am wiring up a media wall with 4 sockets and then another 2 sockets going through the wall into the adjacent room.
I understand ring circuits but the layout here doesn’t seem straight forward to me and how to wire in the return leg.

I am thinking that the feed will come from the loft and wire into socket 1, into socket 2, through the back box of 3 and into socket 4, into socket 3, into socket 5 then into socket 6. From socket 6 the return leg will go through all the back boxes and back into the loft to loop into another room. Would this be acceptable to just have the return cable going through the back boxes?
If there are any other best practices then I am keen to hear them.

Ps I am in the UK and these will all be double sockets fitted into 35mm back boxes. Sockets 4 & 6 will be USB type sockets.

Thank you in advance.

 

[mikehammer69]

Id probably wire a couple of radial circuits rather than rings

 

[flameport]

The arrangement suggested could be used, if the primary aim was to waste as much cable as possible and maximise inconvenience by having a circuit that supplies multiple rooms.

 

[trojanhawrs]

Unless you'll be plugging in kettles or portable heaters, just make it a 20a radial

 

[ebee]

Flameport and Trojanhawrs make good points here and are worth considering.
You could always come back from the last socket on any radial with a length of 4.0mm earthwire to mimic one advantage of a ring final of protection against accidental detacment of an earth - although some might insist on 10.0 earthwire.