Adding a light to a mcb

[Mohoboto]

Hello
I have moved into a new house and the electric meter and consumer unit are under the stairs. What i want to do is put a door there so can use for storage. The problem i have there is no lighting there. So i want to install a ceiling pendant, the easiest way i can see doing it is running the cable from the pendant to the consumer unit and putting the live into the same 6A mcb as the downstairs lighting. This will mean there will be 2 lives in the same breaker (1 for the whole downstairs lighting and the other for the new light). Is this allowed can i put to lives in 1 breaker to control the whole downstairs light and my additional light?
The other option i have which involves more work is taking up the carpet on the landing and small bedroom taking up a few floorboards and taking the wiring my under stairs light up then across the landing into small bedroom and then to the ceiling pendant thats in the hallway by the front door. This way involves more destructive work and need more cable.
Is the 1st more easier way to regulation
Thanks

 

[littlespark]

No problem putting a second supply from same mcb, but might I suggest putting the cupboard light into the upstairs lighting circuit?

Just, if it’s your downstairs that goes off, you’ll have no light to work with. If upstairs and cupboard goes off, you’ll have borrowed light from the hallway.

Advise that new work to a lighting circuit now requires rcd protection…. Which you might already have, but needs to be checked. (Post a photo of the board, we can tell from that)

Also advise that the consumer unit should be accessible, so don’t pack the cupboard so much with stuff needing stored that you can’t get to the board.

 

[Mohoboto]

No problem putting a second supply from same mcb, but might I suggest putting the cupboard light into the upstairs lighting circuit?

Just, if it’s your downstairs that goes off, you’ll have no light to work with. If upstairs and cupboard goes off, you’ll have borrowed light from the hallway.

Advise that new work to a lighting circuit now requires rcd protection…. Which you might already have, but needs to be checked. (Post a photo of the board, we can tell from that)

Also advise that the consumer unit should be accessible, so don’t pack the cupboard so much with stuff needing stored that you can’t get to the board.

Thanks for replying, if i connect that light to the upstairs lighting that will be more work as it neee to go up another floor, yes the consumer unit looks new metal casing with 2 rcd and surge protection, it has got from left to right, 6A somke alarm, 16A boiler, 20A utility room socket, 20A kitchen sockets, 32A oven, RCD, 6A upstairs light, 6A downstairs light, 20A garage sockets, 20A upstairs sockets, 20A downstairs sockets and 40A shower,RCD 32A breaker 100A double switch and surge protector im assuming the 32A is for surge protection.

 

[telectrix]

you caN WIRE YOUR CUPBOARD LIGHT INTO THE UPSTAIRS 6a mcb . sAME AMOUNT OF WORK, DIFFERENT mcb.

 

[Mohoboto]

you caN WIRE YOUR CUPBOARD LIGHT INTO THE UPSTAIRS 6a mcb . sAME AMOUNT OF WORK, DIFFERENT mcb.

 

[Mohoboto]

Oh yh didn’t think of that, same amount of work
Thanks

 

[telectrix]

Oh yh didn’t think of that, same amount of work
Thanks

must be a Black Country brain freeze.

 

[Mohoboto]

must be a Black Country brain freeze

 

[Mohoboto]

Lol u can put it to that lol

 

[brianmoooore]

you caN WIRE YOUR CUPBOARD LIGHT INTO THE UPSTAIRS 6a mcb . sAME AMOUNT OF WORK, DIFFERENT mcb.

Why do keyboards even have a Caps Lock? The number of times I've needed it is negligible, but the number of sentences I've deleted and re typed runs into hundreds.

 

[DPG]

Why do keyboards even have a Caps Lock? The number of times I've needed it is negligible, but the number of sentences I've deleted and re typed runs into hundreds.

I'd ban caps lock keys and rear fog light switches!

 

[telectrix]

I'd ban caps lock keys and rear fog light switches!

along with indicators on BMWs. they're never used anyway.