How many mains rings, typically, for 4-bed house?

Michael Kilpatrick · 2014-01-16T11:49:56+00:00

I'm just curious as to how a typical large house, built today, would be configured, when compared to our 4-bedroom bungalow (1963, extended previously and also by us four years ago). I'd like to think about whether I should partition some of our existing ring mains, should I have some electrical work done to the house at any point soon. The four-bedroom bungalow has three ring mains and three lighting circuits (plus more for the garage, external and other bits and bobs). There are actually plenty of spare slots on the consumer unit which is new, replaced when the extension was done in 2009. Only three of the total of sixteen breakers in our consumer unit are actually associated with the mains wall sockets, or four if you count the one for the cooker. So, typically, for a house which has: kitchen, dining room, living room, two studies, four bedrooms, hallway, utility room, toilet, bathroom and one en-suite, how many ring circuits for power sockets would be installed for a new build? Currently, the study and living room power are ringed with one half of the kitchen. It's all a bit odd. The other half of the kitchen (wall adjoining the new utility room) is ringed with the extension. It's all slightly odd. Michael

Jan 16, 2014 40 Replies

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S Viemeister 12 years ago

We have three - and a fireplace.

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