Ring mains in a small house

[Wibbles]

Hi all,
I'm having some work done at a small house (2 up, 2 down) and the electrician has suggested that it would be okay to have just one ring main for the lounge and 2 bedrooms upstairs and one ring main for the kitchen.

I've always been used to one ring upstairs, one down and one for the kitchen in bigger houses but his logic makes sense - the total floor area is quite small 12 x 8m upstairs and the same down and the number of rooms/sockets is small.

Does this make sense? Am I worrying unnecessarily?

Thanks.

 

[Taylortwocities]

You'll be fine.

There is usually very little load on general sockets in a house, most of the load will be in the kitchen so your electrician's proposal is just fine.

Just to put this in to context.
I am currently working on a 4 bedroom house and this has one ring for the entire place.

 

[Chri5]

its fine, but the less circuits you have the more the nuisance is if a trip happens or isolation is required.

Take re jigging a room where you might want to move sockets or change face plates. To do that you have to isolate the entire two floors of sockets because they are all one the same (damn) circuit.

So the Missus will be miffed because she won't be watching soaps...

Same with power tools, and such. Isolate the socket circuit and no power for the tools.

I would prefer to see 2 x 20 amp radials than 1 x 30 amp whole house (less kitchen) ring.