Hi again
Having finished renovation of living room I will shortly be moving onto the kitchen which will be a complete rip out including knocking down and moving back one short wall to create more space and knocking down the brick under stairs cupboard again to create more space.
Now the electrics are on the one down ring for living room and kitchen I want the ring separated so the kitchen has its own ring or rather two rings one for sockets and one for appliances.
An electrician will be doing this work as want to upgrade the CU to a recessed one as current CU is in the under stair cupboard that is being knocked down so will be boxing in the meters with access door so the new CU can be built into the stud work for this.
Now to save some money I will be cutting the chases for sockets and spurs myself can these all be cut vertically the ceiling is coming down too so access will be good for the electrician to run cables in ceiling space.
I would prefer just vertical chases as understand too these can be a bit deeper than horizontal chases and will I think be safer if so I need to drill holes in future to hang stuff.
Oh BTW the Mira shower is on a separate CU due to not enough space on the old CU can this now be wired into the new CU as doing so will help to declutter that wall which also has the alarm box.
So in short do just vertical chases comply with part P
Having finished renovation of living room I will shortly be moving onto the kitchen which will be a complete rip out including knocking down and moving back one short wall to create more space and knocking down the brick under stairs cupboard again to create more space.
Now the electrics are on the one down ring for living room and kitchen I want the ring separated so the kitchen has its own ring or rather two rings one for sockets and one for appliances.
An electrician will be doing this work as want to upgrade the CU to a recessed one as current CU is in the under stair cupboard that is being knocked down so will be boxing in the meters with access door so the new CU can be built into the stud work for this.
Now to save some money I will be cutting the chases for sockets and spurs myself can these all be cut vertically the ceiling is coming down too so access will be good for the electrician to run cables in ceiling space.
I would prefer just vertical chases as understand too these can be a bit deeper than horizontal chases and will I think be safer if so I need to drill holes in future to hang stuff.
Oh BTW the Mira shower is on a separate CU due to not enough space on the old CU can this now be wired into the new CU as doing so will help to declutter that wall which also has the alarm box.
So in short do just vertical chases comply with part P