Direct connect to fuse box

[neilc]

Very basic stuff - I need to have a dual socket outlet in the same room as the fuse box is located. I can't add a spur to the ring main as the nearest socket is through a 3 foot thick stone wall, can I just connect it straight to fuse box and if so how?

 

[plugwash]

if there is a spare way in the fuse box (and you can still get breakers for your style of box) you can

just fit a 16A breaker and then run 2.5mm straight to the socket from it

 

[securespark]

It is perfectly within the regs to wire the spur from the origin of the ring, ie the terminals in the CU from which the ring eminate.

Quote from OSG:

"Such a spur is connected to a circuit at the terminals of sockets outlets or at junction boxes or at the origin of the circuit in the dist board." (CU)