Hi,
I have a downstairs cupboard which, as well as containing the consumer unit, is also becoming something of a "comm central" for electronic bits and pieces like a DECT base station, ADSL router, etc. I've got a new toy to add in there, and I can only see the number increasing, so I want to add some proper sockets instead of the current ad-hoc arrangement.
The obvious approach is to wire up the sockets (probably three doubles right next to each other) as a radial, and just connect it into the "downstairs ring" MCB. Logically this seems like a spur off the ring, but is it likely to raise any eyebrows?
The only other source of power in the cupboard is the FCU for the boiler. This would presumably be on the ring since there's no separate breaker for it, so I guess I could take a spur off here instead. But I don't know for sure how this is connected (could be a spur itself) so the CU option looks better. Of course, all the devices I intend to plug in here are low-power wall-wart ones, so most of this is probably moot in practice, but I realise that I can't rely on this since there's always the possibility of some idiot one day plugging a 3-bar fire into it.
Cheers,
Pete