Tips for dedicated mains feed

Hi Rich

This has been discussed many times, so well worth using the forum search function.
The Pukka Mains Spur Installation - Wow! thread is a good place to start.

Cheers - John

Thanks John, will check it out now.

MK all the way and 10mm.sq flex. get a smaller (MK) seperate consumer unit fitted. simple as that.

I live in a new house so I don't really want to tear the place apart to put in new cables. Can you (a qualified electrician) convert a current cable run in to a dedicated spur without resorting to having to run new cables?

Thanks,

Huw

That depends on the installation in your house but not likely...

Richard.

HuwJ,

A dedicated mains radial circuit (often called a 'spur') is just that: dedicated from meter to equipment. Thus there's no way I can think of that an existing ring mains circuit can do the two jobs.

As r-tee says, ideally you should have 10mm twin & earth (but 6 would be better than nothing) going to a consumer unit with 32 amp RCBOs (a combination of earth trip and fuse) for safety and sound quality.

Again, ideally, you should try for one cable per piece of kit with separate RCBOs. However, any variation on the above is better than ring mains.