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They'd be on separate circuits though wouldn't they? The underfloor heating has it's own 13amp FCU if it developed a fault it would be isolated there. The server gear has it's own separate 13amp FCU.

As for the faulty hoover thing, there's not much I could about that anyway, it appears 3-4 rooms are all on the same ring end circuit anyway, so if anyone plugs a faulty hoover into one of the sockets it'd trip everything off in all 4 rooms. Unfortunately the house is entirely solid brick so no easy plasterboard rewires on offer, but it's served us ok for 30+ years that way. The alternative would be running the server gear off trailing sockets, which in my mind is exactly the same as running an extension from a new FCU, except the 13amp fuse is now in the all unit rather than a plug you can see with sockets on the end. To keep the network gear running in outages I have them on a small UPS anyway too.
No Mate they would be part of the RFC (Ring Main) I would think, by separate circuit they mean it's own cable fed from the CU with it's own MCB
 
As you said you are getting an electrician in who will be able to confirm it is a RFC and/or how it is existingly wired as well as what practicaly can be done.
 

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