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Murdoch: I think upgrading to 4mm2 and keeping it as a radial is because the circuit is protected by 32A circuit, that would make sense rather than leaving it with 2.5mm2 cable, I can’t think of any other reason for that suggestion. 

That’s what I’m thinking, The house is old and I’ve recently moved in. I wanted to have a few things checked as we are having the kitchen refurbished and the consumer unit looks ugly, no cables are labelled and it all looks pretty tight. I have a feeling the electrician was just wanting a quick...

That’s right the downstairs sockets would be the radial (unfused spur - once ring is made). The MCB is 32A and the wiring is 2.5mm2 which surprised me. He was wanting to add only 1 cable as the MCB and cable was already rated for a ring, instead of leaving it as a radial and upgrading all the...

He was going to run a cable from the end of 1 radial to the single socket which then returns to the MCB. I don’t think there is any extra positions in the Consumer unit. I have seen that the downstairs and kitchen sockets are RCD protected if that helps.

(Sharpend): When you look at the MCB in the consumer unit, it has 3 wires coming out. When the breaker is tripped the downstairs sockets and the kitchen sockets power down. You can actually follow one of the cables out and to the single kitchen socket from my cellar. He did carry out a...

There are 6 double sockets in the downstairs radial. If the electrician went ahead and turned the kitchen into a ring I understand that the downstairs sockets would now be considered an unfused spur but this is where my concern is. The 6 downstairs sockets would now be effectively a spur off a...

Looking for some info: At the moment my house has 3 radials coming out of 1 MCB. Radial 1 feeds the downstairs sockets, radial 2 feeds only 1 socket in the kitchen and radial 3 feeds the other kitchen sockets. I was talking to electrician who I had come and check and he was talking about...