Owain wrote:

He might be, but IMHO it would be irresponsible to install a circuit
which would not be sufficient for the purpose by today's standards.

Personally I would tend to agree, and would try to guide him toward a
slightly more elaborate setup (the whole house currently only has about
10 sockets (mostly doubles) in total). Having said that, I can also see
why he is keen to do the minimum possible since he only owns one third
of the house (was left to him and his sisters) so recouping the cost of
any work whe he sells is harder, and the sisters will just cop a bigger
CGT bill.

Would it be acceptable to go *down* one conduit to a socket,
horizontally along the wall (either chased or mini-trunking) with
intermediate sockets, to socket at another conduit and then back *up*?

Could be in some cases...

If minitrunking, a bit of slack would offer the possibility of chasing
in at a later date. Horizontally between accessories is a permitted zone.

Yup, I may suggest that for some areas.

An alternative is to use radials, not rings. Then any additional sockets
required can be spurred off existing socket locations, without having to
do down-along-up to preserve continuity of a ring.

I did think of that, but you don't gain much in this case since I don't
think you can get 4mm^2 cable down the conduit either, you would still
be limited to 2.5mm^2 conduit drops. So extension would still have to be
via a new drop rather than from an existing socket.

Another thought is MICC cable might be thin enough to get 2x down a
conduit. IIRC rings only need 1.5mm minimum in MICC, not 2.5mm? Would
involve some faffing and making good at the socket locations though to
accommodate the glands.

Would probably be simpler to go for singles in the conduit in that case
I would have thought?


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Cheers,

John.

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