Spur socket from FCU

[sjaisie]

First post so please be kind.

Short story long, we had a new kitchen fitted about 5 years ago which included new sockets and wiring in the kitchen. All the sockets are isolated by the "ground floor sockets" breaker in the consumer unit.
In the cupboard next to the integrated fridge freezer is a FCU which only feeds the fridge freezer, and it has a 13 amp fuse. There are two sets of 2.5mm T&E feeding this FCU.

I want to add another 2.5mm T&E to the load side of the FCU to spur another double socket in my dining room on the adjoining wall. It will only ever be 1 double socket and will be protected by the 13 amp fuse in the FCU.

Is this a safe way of adding this extra socket.

 

[Murdochcat]

You can have as many sockets on the load side of a FCU as you want, but obviously be aware that your need to consider the appliances you plug in and the load

 

[sjaisie]

You can have as many sockets on the load side of a FCU as you want, but obviously be aware that your need to consider the appliances you plug in and the load

Many thanks for the quick reply.
Can I connect the new T&E directly in to the load terminals in the FCU along with the existing wires from the fridge freezer?

 

[EFLImpudence]

Can I connect the new T&E directly in to the load terminals in the FCU along with the existing wires from the fridge freezer?

Yes -

or

as long as you are only fitting one double socket, you can connect the cable to the feed/supply terminals.

 

[sjaisie]

Yes -

or

as long as you are only fitting one double socket, you can connect the cable to the feed/supply terminals.

Actually this is what I will do so it won't cause confusion in the future with killing the socket if the fridge freezer is switch off from the FCU (defrosting etc).

Thanks for your help.

 

[SUNRAY]

as long as you are only fitting one double socket, you can connect the cable to the feed/supply terminals.

t'would be my preferred option

 

[EFLImpudence]

#metoo

 

[Taylortwocities]

Is this

"ground floor sockets" breaker in the consumer unit

protected by a 30mA RCD?
Photo of consumer unit, if you arent sure.

 

[sjaisie]

Is this

protected by a 30mA RCD?
Photo of consumer unit, if you arent sure.

 

[Taylortwocities]

All RCD protected. All ok to crack on.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Should be:

 

[sjaisie]

Should be:

View attachment 380292

I’ll crack on then

 

[ericmark]

You can spur one BS1363 device of a ring final. So if there are two cables into the FCU, then likely connected to the ring final, so you can spur off the input, but if only one, then must connect to output.

 

[Taylortwocities]

You can spur one BS1363 device of a ring final

To clarify. You can spur lots of devices from a ring final, you could have a spur from every socket on the circuit. You could also have more than one spur from a socket, but that is not usually practical as you'll have a big problem getting four 2.5mm conductors into the socket terminals.
Maybe what @ericmark is trying to say is that you cannot spur your new socket from the input to your FCU, and then spur from the new socket.

 

[sjaisie]

To clarify. You can spur lots of devices from a ring final, you could have a spur from every socket on the circuit. You could also have more than one spur from a socket, but that is not usually practical as you'll have a big problem getting four 2.5mm conductors into the socket terminals.
Maybe what @ericmark is trying to say is that you cannot spur your new socket from the input to your FCU, and then spur from the new socket.

Yes I am aware of this, and the new socket will be a spur from the input on the FCU but then the new socket will never spur to anything else.

The next big job I need to do in a few weeks is to connect a new FCU from an existing socket then connect four double sockets from the FCU radially (if thats the correct phrase), which if I understand correctly is peferctly fine too.