I'm getting my kitchen ring main rewired, I've had a local professional sparky in for a quote and as expected the entirety of the new circuit needs RCD protection. However, the consumer unit will need upgrading (current unit is old-skool Wylex), and that leads to all existing connected circuits needing to be brought up to regs i.e. possibly the whole house will need a rewire.
So having digested all this, I got to thinking about doing the work myself (obviously with relevant notification/inspection via local building control). My aim is to do the work without disturbing the existing CU, there's a free slot on the CU to take an MCB for the new ring main, the thought I had would be to connect the new ring via a "standalone RCD".
It's not immediately obvious to me that this contravenes any of the regs, am I wrong? And does such a thing as a "standalone RCD" exist?
Cheers for any advice
JJ
So having digested all this, I got to thinking about doing the work myself (obviously with relevant notification/inspection via local building control). My aim is to do the work without disturbing the existing CU, there's a free slot on the CU to take an MCB for the new ring main, the thought I had would be to connect the new ring via a "standalone RCD".
It's not immediately obvious to me that this contravenes any of the regs, am I wrong? And does such a thing as a "standalone RCD" exist?
Cheers for any advice
JJ