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I'm old school and usually install RFC in domestics - downstairs ring and upstairs ring - old dog, new tricks and all that. However my eyes have been opened and see the benefits of radials, especially when it comes to small extensions.
Friend of friend, has small(ish) extension, bedroom, vaulted celling with bi-folding doors opening to the garden, so thought this would be the ideal job to break my radial virginity on 16A or 20A MCB using 2.5mm t&e. CU only has one spare way. Trying to convince them to upgrade CU as everything is off an 80A 30mA RCD - installed 2001.
'Traditional' radial (daisy-chain) pushes me close to max VD, so was consider 'branch' radial to keep VD well with inside limits - split feed at entrance to room, branch down each side of the room (four sockets one side and three the other)- some may frown upon this approach.
Extension was supposed to have a wood burner for heating, which they no longer want (cost?) as room is well 'insulated'. So just encase room gets cold, which it well, they thought they would just plug in a freestanding heater if(when) required.
Have feeling this free standing heater will turn into two further down the line.
My heart say's this isn't the job to embrace radials and one should just 32A ring it. BTW RFC here will be much more hassle (extra couple of hours in cramped, spider and mouse infested loft with rash inducing fibreglass insulation), so more than happy if someone can convince me to do radial here.
Thoughts?
P.S. Sorry for not being on in while quite, a few folks I know have passed away over the last month (non-COVID related)
Friend of friend, has small(ish) extension, bedroom, vaulted celling with bi-folding doors opening to the garden, so thought this would be the ideal job to break my radial virginity on 16A or 20A MCB using 2.5mm t&e. CU only has one spare way. Trying to convince them to upgrade CU as everything is off an 80A 30mA RCD - installed 2001.
'Traditional' radial (daisy-chain) pushes me close to max VD, so was consider 'branch' radial to keep VD well with inside limits - split feed at entrance to room, branch down each side of the room (four sockets one side and three the other)- some may frown upon this approach.
Extension was supposed to have a wood burner for heating, which they no longer want (cost?) as room is well 'insulated'. So just encase room gets cold, which it well, they thought they would just plug in a freestanding heater if(when) required.
Have feeling this free standing heater will turn into two further down the line.
My heart say's this isn't the job to embrace radials and one should just 32A ring it. BTW RFC here will be much more hassle (extra couple of hours in cramped, spider and mouse infested loft with rash inducing fibreglass insulation), so more than happy if someone can convince me to do radial here.
Thoughts?
P.S. Sorry for not being on in while quite, a few folks I know have passed away over the last month (non-COVID related)