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Providing power for boiler
My room-sealed combi boiler is in the downstairs loo, which I am
currently doing up. I'm planning to build a cupboard around it (in compliance with the clearance requirements in the installation manual). At the moment the flex from the boiler goes through a hole in the wall to a nearby 13 amp socket, workable but not very tidy. I want to wire it up properly. The easiest source of power is the lighting ring which passes through the room - I've got the ceiling down right now, so I have easy access to it. Could I legitimately power it from a spur from this circuit? If so would it be right to put a 13 amp FCU in with a 3 amp fuse in it (on the basis that the boiler would be hard-wired into it and no other appliance would be connected to it), or should I do it via a 5 amp round pin socket/plug (which would be unfused - seems less safe to me)? If the right way to do it is from the ring main (which is doable, just needs a bit more drilling/chasing) then obviously an FCU is the way to go. Is it within the regs to have an FCU reachable from a wash basin in a WC (there's no bath or shower in there)? Or should I hide the FCU within the cupboard - would that be OK? |
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