Kitchen wiring

[victorvanderzel]

Hi,

Just a quick question, Is it mandatory (part P wise) to have the kitchen on a separate ring main? and if you have all of your sockets on a separate ring main, can you have one socket on a different ring main.
I am moving the kitchen to another room and put a new ring main in, but there is one corner with the fridge that would be a real pain to put on the new ring. I prefer to leave that on the existing ring.

Thanks Victor

 

[Qedelec]

Part P does not stipulate
It would be covered by BS7671 Requirements for Electrical Installations.

You can have all you sockets on separate fuses or all on the same fuse if the area supplied does not exceed 100²m.

Its really down to common sense and ensuring that any future workman will not be endangered.
A excellent way would be to have all sockets on one breaker in one colour and all others in another colour.

 

[securespark]

A excellent way would be to have all sockets on one breaker in one colour and all others in another colour.

Can you elaborate, please?????

 

[Adam_151]

Its really down to common sense and ensuring that any future workman will not be endangered.

In a perfect world people test that things are dead, but you do get the odd slip up.

Best way to do this (though would look **** in a house), is to label each CU/Distrubution board with a letter then each outlet, have a sticker that says something like A7 , meaning fed from fuseway 7 in board A