Its not ideal but providing the fusebox is clearly marked its not a problem, you can infact argue benefits that you'd not looseSheaf wrote:Yeah, it is, although due to the nature of the new floorplan, the kitchen, dining room and utility will all have multiple doors into/out of each one so placement of switches is going to take a bit of thinking about.
Plus need to figure out the AV side, largely where speaker cables are going as want to put in either ceiling speakers or high bookshelf speakers and link them to multiple sources.
And I'm also trying to figure out if the boiler can start where it is or not, which depends on whether I can go extend the flue about 3m....
Fun times, although I should hopefully get what I want and not spend years wishing I'd considered more when doing it.
One thing I'm considering with the electrics though is combining some circuits, such as kitchen lights with the bedroom lights, as it seems excessive to have whole seperate circuits for 1 or 2 lights, or a single array of downlights. Are there any rules about this?
I know it would obviously be a bad idea to have !lights and power on the same circuit (spurred off) for the same room ASA failing device would plunge you into darkness but are say light circuits on different floors OK to combine?
an entire floor of lighting if you lost for example ground floor lighting due to a popped lamp etc.
Most lighting circuits are normally specific to a floor thats all, but im not aware of anything that would cause this to be
an issue (Just mark the board 'Upstairs and Kitchen lighting')
Not telling you how to suck eggs, but avoid running the AV, Data or SELV cables alongside mains cable, the installation cert will have
an inspection box for segregation of Class 1 circuits, requires a 50mm space minimum.
Also, im sure you're going to, but a top tip if not, go LED lighting (Downlights etc) bulb life and power saving etc its amazing, I have
removed all my halogen MR16's and replaced everything with WWhite LED and I've gone from 900W to 108W with the same light level !!
I do some great stuff in kitchens nowadays, LED strip lights under worktop lips, kick board lights (sometimes in blue, sometimes in white)
LED soft lighting (In green, blue) on top of the cabinets - Looks fantastic.. Undercabinet lights, been about for years but still works well.
COAX feeds for drop down screens under wall cabinets, LED Draw lights, honestly, there's lighting for everything lol
