Stefek Zaba wrote:

So, does your sense of aesthetics rule out using grid-switch FCUs in
the relatively-distant cupboard? That'd take up only one double
mounting box; and with FCUs controlling the spurs to each dedicated
socket, providing closer protection for the cables, the runs from
there to each socket can be in 2.5mmsq.

The "Big Red Switch" does have appeal, but isn't feasible with a ring
(not without bizarre contact arrangements to switch both sides of the
ring *and* preserve continuity of the rest of ring when you bypass the
relevant section). Unless, that is, you have a truly dedicated kitchen
ring, and can replace the twin 2.5mmsqs running back to the CU with a
single 4mmsq or 6mmsq (6mmsq is safe bet, 4mmsq needs calcs on
permitted length), and you put a 45A cooker-style isolator at the
point where the thicker incomer fed out into two arms of the kitchen
ring...


'Tis indeed a dedicated kitchen ring. But I don't think that a Big Red
switch will meet the aesthetic requirements of SWMBO. She has already
vetoed red with aluminium edging as the colour scheme for the units ;-)

Richard