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Bill Payer wrote:
Our house was built around the early to mid 60s (so has "modern" PVC
twin & earth cabling) and has just one ring main feeding the whole
house. We want to add in some extra sockets but obviously I don't want
to overload the one circuit so I've had an idea that I want to run past
you peeps here.

Most family/friends houses seem to be wired with an upstairs ring and a
downstairs ring. My idea is to go to all the sockets in the upstairs
rooms and basically pull the cables out of the sockets, back down to
under the floorboards and joint them there (either with "traditional"
junction boxes or with crimps/heatshrink sleeve), so that the
continuity of the ring is preserved but it is now just serving the
downstairs sockets, then run a new ring for the upstairs sockets, and
adding new sockets to each ring where needed.

Is this OK?

I'd say it's making too many unnecessary joints. Do you know where the
ring goes upstairs and back down again? You might well find they are
together. Also if you intend keeping the existing socket positions
upstairs it's making more work.

Other thing is the ECC on older TW&E is smaller than currently. Not quite
sure how that effects radical alteration. But my gut feeling would be to
keep the old ring as short as possible.

TIA,
Bill

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