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So...
A mate just moved into his new house and wants a few extra sockets added for wall mounted TVs etc
No problem you would think as house it fairly modern, I would say less than 10 years old...
Popped round on my way home this evening and looked at the consumer unit , looked okay dual rcd split board so rcd present and correct.
Here comes the kicker , I noticed all the circuits labelled sockets were on 16a MCBs , no rings at all.. So one would assume all socket were wired in 2.5 radials... NOPE. Dropped 2 double socket fronts down and all the power is run in 1.5.
My initially thinking is to extend the circuits in 2.5 but then I got thinking while driving home would anyone think it was badger rough to extend the circuit in 1.5 keeping the cable size the same through-out
Thoughts please
A mate just moved into his new house and wants a few extra sockets added for wall mounted TVs etc
No problem you would think as house it fairly modern, I would say less than 10 years old...
Popped round on my way home this evening and looked at the consumer unit , looked okay dual rcd split board so rcd present and correct.
Here comes the kicker , I noticed all the circuits labelled sockets were on 16a MCBs , no rings at all.. So one would assume all socket were wired in 2.5 radials... NOPE. Dropped 2 double socket fronts down and all the power is run in 1.5.
My initially thinking is to extend the circuits in 2.5 but then I got thinking while driving home would anyone think it was badger rough to extend the circuit in 1.5 keeping the cable size the same through-out
Thoughts please