I've done a lot of searching about this and mainly come up with positive reasons for doing this but can't find any definitive rules or regulations regarding this.
My kitchen is being refitted soon. I'm rewiring the existing ring main in the kitchen (currently on the "downstairs" fuse) to relocate the sockets and to remove the existing spurs (on switches - not FCU's) to where the old appliances were.
I'm toying with the idea of using a grid panel for the new built in appliances - microwave, dishwasher, cooker hood, boiler and 2 x fridge freezers. I could quite easily tap this in to the existing downstairs ring main but could equally as easily connect this to the upstairs ring main (obviously relabelling the appropriate fuse in the main consumer unit). This would move some of the heavier current draw appliances to the lesser utilised upstairs ring. The cooker has its own dedicated feed anyway.
This would mean all switched sockets at worktop level would be on the downstairs ring along with the tumble drier and washing machine (lower power energy efficient units), the dishwasher, microwave, fridge freezer(s), extractor fan and boiler would be on the upstairs ring via the grid panel / 20A DP switches and fuses.
Both ring mains are already protected via a 30ma RCD in the consumer unit.
Any rules against this arrangement ?
Cheers
My kitchen is being refitted soon. I'm rewiring the existing ring main in the kitchen (currently on the "downstairs" fuse) to relocate the sockets and to remove the existing spurs (on switches - not FCU's) to where the old appliances were.
I'm toying with the idea of using a grid panel for the new built in appliances - microwave, dishwasher, cooker hood, boiler and 2 x fridge freezers. I could quite easily tap this in to the existing downstairs ring main but could equally as easily connect this to the upstairs ring main (obviously relabelling the appropriate fuse in the main consumer unit). This would move some of the heavier current draw appliances to the lesser utilised upstairs ring. The cooker has its own dedicated feed anyway.
This would mean all switched sockets at worktop level would be on the downstairs ring along with the tumble drier and washing machine (lower power energy efficient units), the dishwasher, microwave, fridge freezer(s), extractor fan and boiler would be on the upstairs ring via the grid panel / 20A DP switches and fuses.
Both ring mains are already protected via a 30ma RCD in the consumer unit.
Any rules against this arrangement ?
Cheers