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Masood
I know some of you esteemed gentlemen occasionally dip into the cesspool that is electrickery so before sullying myself by visiting the sparky forum I'll ask here...
We're refurbishing our rental flat and the electrics are "interesting".
Economy 7 (we want rid of it)
All sockets on one ring (whole property under 100m2)
One circuit for storage heaters (removed a long while ago)
Immersion on it's own fuse
Shower and cooker on one fuse (well over it's capacity)
We are getting rid of fuse board, replacing with modern consumer unit.
Shower getting it's own RCBO
Oven getting it's own RCBO
Hob getting a new spur directly off consumer unit, it's own RCBO
Two new spurs off separate RCBOs for space heaters in bedroom and living room
Various sockets being relocated
We've been told that if we do major works such as a rewire (or have an extension built etc) then the kitchen MUST be on a separate ring to comply with regs.
My question is - does the above count as a rewire? Obviously it's not a full rewire but in my opinion it's a major enough piece of work to count as such and therefore need to comply. SWMBO (degree in electrical engineering) disagrees. no dispute that it's good practice to have a separate ring, but is it obligatory?
I have in mind Part L, and how a number of "component upgrades" ***ulatively become classed as a "system upgrade", necessitating fuller compliance. But I don't know if this applies to electrics as it does to gas & heating...
TIA,
Masood
We're refurbishing our rental flat and the electrics are "interesting".
Economy 7 (we want rid of it)
All sockets on one ring (whole property under 100m2)
One circuit for storage heaters (removed a long while ago)
Immersion on it's own fuse
Shower and cooker on one fuse (well over it's capacity)
We are getting rid of fuse board, replacing with modern consumer unit.
Shower getting it's own RCBO
Oven getting it's own RCBO
Hob getting a new spur directly off consumer unit, it's own RCBO
Two new spurs off separate RCBOs for space heaters in bedroom and living room
Various sockets being relocated
We've been told that if we do major works such as a rewire (or have an extension built etc) then the kitchen MUST be on a separate ring to comply with regs.
My question is - does the above count as a rewire? Obviously it's not a full rewire but in my opinion it's a major enough piece of work to count as such and therefore need to comply. SWMBO (degree in electrical engineering) disagrees. no dispute that it's good practice to have a separate ring, but is it obligatory?
I have in mind Part L, and how a number of "component upgrades" ***ulatively become classed as a "system upgrade", necessitating fuller compliance. But I don't know if this applies to electrics as it does to gas & heating...
TIA,
Masood