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The normal practice would be to switch off power at the CU, surely.

If you want to run a double gang socket, then you have to take into
consideration that both sockets will be used at the same time, so you
need
the correct switch gear to control it. Diversity is only considered in
the
whole installation, where there is an unlikely event that all appliances
and
every socket will be on and used at the one time.

Sounds like good sense to me, yet I've been told that cable feeding
one double socket only needs to be rated at 20A, not 30, so a single
piece of 2.5T&E clipped direct will do. Is that not so?

Regards, NT

If you have two appliances connecting to a two gang socket, and both are
known to contain heating elements, then would you trust a single piece of
2.5 mm T&E PVC ?



So do you wire all your spurs in 4mm, just to be safe? If you have this
kind of (expected) loading then you need to think again about the design
of your circuits. On the other hand, IIRC 2.5mmT&E clipped direct is
rated at 27A...

Hwyl!

M.

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