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Jeff105
Hi everyone,
I will be wanting a qualified electrician to install a spur feed from the consumer unit (Volex equipped with RCBOs installed when the mains supply to the house was moved 3 years ago) to an isolation switch located on a plastered wall to supply a new electric single oven and induction hob. From reading this forum and others I understand that a 50 amp DP switch connected to a 32A RCBO using 6mm2 cable will be required. The oven is rated at 3680W and the hob at 7200W.
I am competent to do prep work such as sinking boxes into brickwork and channelling for cable runs, so hopefully can do quite a bit before the new kitchen units and appliances are delivered.
Previously I have wired in fixed appliances by taking a spur from the ring main via a fused and double pole switched connection unit, then to an outlet plate where the appliance flexible lead is connected. As this usually means that access holes must be cut into the rear panels of kitchen base or wall units I would prefer to avoid that this time. The plastered wall is the rear of what used to be the garage wall, now a utility/workshop or den if you want to be posh. This is built in 9" brickwork and is not plastered on the inner face. My preference is therefore to bring the new cable through the wall into a flush mounted isolation switch, then take two cables back through the wall to separate outlet plates, one each for the oven and hob. Then the flexible leads from the appliances could also be taken through the wall and connected up. This would avoid lots of channelling on the plastered face of the wall, and allow all the boxes to be surface mounted. Presumably it would also help the cables to operate at a lower temperature at periods of high usage through being run along brick surfaces rather than under plaster.
Would welcome comments as to whether the above is legal/sensible or not.
Thanks for reading.
I will be wanting a qualified electrician to install a spur feed from the consumer unit (Volex equipped with RCBOs installed when the mains supply to the house was moved 3 years ago) to an isolation switch located on a plastered wall to supply a new electric single oven and induction hob. From reading this forum and others I understand that a 50 amp DP switch connected to a 32A RCBO using 6mm2 cable will be required. The oven is rated at 3680W and the hob at 7200W.
I am competent to do prep work such as sinking boxes into brickwork and channelling for cable runs, so hopefully can do quite a bit before the new kitchen units and appliances are delivered.
Previously I have wired in fixed appliances by taking a spur from the ring main via a fused and double pole switched connection unit, then to an outlet plate where the appliance flexible lead is connected. As this usually means that access holes must be cut into the rear panels of kitchen base or wall units I would prefer to avoid that this time. The plastered wall is the rear of what used to be the garage wall, now a utility/workshop or den if you want to be posh. This is built in 9" brickwork and is not plastered on the inner face. My preference is therefore to bring the new cable through the wall into a flush mounted isolation switch, then take two cables back through the wall to separate outlet plates, one each for the oven and hob. Then the flexible leads from the appliances could also be taken through the wall and connected up. This would avoid lots of channelling on the plastered face of the wall, and allow all the boxes to be surface mounted. Presumably it would also help the cables to operate at a lower temperature at periods of high usage through being run along brick surfaces rather than under plaster.
Would welcome comments as to whether the above is legal/sensible or not.
Thanks for reading.