Spur and lighting cct off a FCU protected spur?

[Pete E]

I am looking to install power and light into what was a "coal house" that is going to be used to hold a small domestic chest freezer.

The room itself is part of the fabric of the house, but is only accessible by an external door. The wiring run will be direct through the kitchen wall into the room itself ie no external wiring.

I have not looked at the existing wiring in detail yet, but it looks like there is a double socket (as part of the ringmain) with switched FCU protected spur leading to a socket below the kitchen work top that is for the washing machine.

Given this spur has an FCU already, can I simply run anotherspur off this socket into the coal house and fit a standard double socket with another FCU and a “spur”to feed a light?

I would use 2.5mm T&E for the power socket (less than a10 foot run) and then 1mm beyond the new FCU for the lighting part. I would then down rate the fuse in this light FCU to 3amp?

Would this be ok?

Thanks in advance,

Peter

 

[Flanders]

All this nonsense is because we are trying to advise a DIYer how to bodge something up. Dave, I wasn't inferring that freezers are likely to trip an RCD, it was the fact that something else on the same RCD protected circuit might and take the freezer with it. I think this just goes to show that the only sensible advice would be for the guy to get a sparky in to do it properly. Incidentally, do any of you run your freezers on a dedicated or non-RCD supply? I do!

No mines on main RCD see Post #17

 

[Pete999]

Please tell me you are joking? If you don't know this then you are clearly not competent to be doing this job.
You could be placing the poor unsuspecting homeowner's life at risk through your incompetence, please just advise them to get an electrician who won't place their life at risk and then walk away from the job.

Electricity kills within a fraction of a second and you certainly don't get a second chance.


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The OP is a DIYer Dave

 

[Midwest]

Perhaps this post should be in the DIY section then? But agree with davesparks, get an electrician in. Never ceases to amaze me the amount of bodges I come across done by weekend warriors, but that's my opinion. As regards freezers on RCD's, never had mine on anything else. If it does knock off the fridge/freezer, I normally notice when I open the fridge door for my bottle of mineral water. If I've been away when it's gone off, I'd claim on my house insurance for all the rib-eye steaks & sides of lamb I normally have jammed in there :cheesy:

 

[sparky1508]

Perhaps this post should be in the DIY section then? But agree with davesparks, get an electrician in. Never ceases to amaze me the amount of bodges I come across done by weekend warriors, but that's my opinion. As regards freezers on RCD's, never had mine on anything else. If it does knock off the fridge/freezer, I normally notice when I open the fridge door for my bottle of mineral water. If I've been away when it's gone off, I'd claim on my house insurance for all the rib-eye steaks & sides of lamb I normally have jammed in there :cheesy:

Apparently some insurance companies say you can't claim on freezer contents if your freezer is on an RCD. Might wanna check that one before putting it on RCD but you could always have dedicated circuit labelled freezer only and then you won't need an RCD.

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[Midwest]

Apparently some insurance companies say you can't claim on freezer contents if your freezer is on an RCD. Might wanna check that one before putting it on RCD but you could always have dedicated circuit labelled freezer only and then you won't need an RCD.

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Think my excess would be more than my pack of beef burgers and couple of bottles of wine currently being super chilled at the moment, so won't lose any sleep over that. Last time I read my T&C's in me house insurance, there was an exclusion for everything if there was an R in the month or hadn't had the coalman walk backwards thru the house on New Years eve!

 

[sparky1508]

I get the jest in your comment but if we are talking a full chest freezer, even without the ribeye and stuff it can amount to alot. I suppose it's a risk that an individual would have to decide on their own but it is still a valid option.

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[Midwest]

I get the jest in your comment.....

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You surprise me, most of my anecdotes seem to fall on deaf ears

 

[sparky1508]

You surprise me, most of my anecdotes seem to fall on deaf ears

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