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4 bedrooms - 14 sockets - single circuit

  • 01-01-2021 04:51PM
    #1
    jaykayphd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I want to add an additional socket in a bedroom.

    There are currently 14 sockets upstairs in the 4 bedrooms all on a single MCB (SH 201 B20).

    From reading online, do I understand that there should be a max of 10 sockets across 2 rooms on a single MCB?

    House was rewired in 2017.

    Floor is currently up in bedroom with access to fuse board in room below.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Treseemme.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 124 ✭✭Treseemme.


    jaykayphd wrote: »
    Hi,

    I want to add an additional socket in a bedroom.

    There are currently 14 sockets upstairs in the 4 bedrooms all on a single MCB (SH 201 B20).

    From reading online, do I understand that there should be a max of 10 sockets across 2 rooms on a single MCB?

    House was rewired in 2017.

    Floor is currently up in bedroom with access to fuse board in room below.

    Thanks

    Maybe its a ring circuit, unfused spurs not allowed in that case

    1 socket won't make a lot of difference there


  • #3
    Treseemme.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 124 ✭✭Treseemme.


    Split it in 2 while the floors up

    Easy enough to do


  • #4
    jaykayphd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56 ✭✭jaykayphd


    Treseemme. wrote: »
    Maybe its a ring circuit, unfused spurs not allowed in that case

    1 socket won't make a lot of difference there

    If it's a ring circuit, should it have a different MCB?

    I just want to understand before I ask a professional to look at the circuit. As pointed out, with floor up easier to fix now.


  • #5
    Treseemme.
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 124 ✭✭Treseemme.


    jaykayphd wrote: »
    If it's a ring circuit, should it have a different MCB?

    I just want to understand before I ask a professional to look at the circuit. As pointed out, with floor up easier to fix now.

    Some fit a 20

    If you disconnect 2 browns at a socket roughly halfway

    They'll both be live if it's a ring and all sockets will remain on

    If it's a radial some sockets will be off and only 1 brown will be live


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