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ChrisPDavies
Hi all
I am in the process of planning (i.e. I won't be installing it, but I'm trying to figure out what I want and where!) the rewiring of my kitchen, since knocking down a wall to combine our kitchen with the dining room.
Current situation:
The builder left me with a thick cable coming from a rose(?), replacing an identical one, which is currently connected to the hob; he did this to allow us to continue using the kitchen whilst waiting for our units and new appliances.
The oven has a three-pin plug which we connect to a socket that was originally in the dining room.
There is an external light which has a three-pin plug which I also plug into this socket.
My future (proposed) situation:
I would like to connect the new oven and hob, as well as the external light, to switched FSUs.
I am also having underfloor heating.
The Issue:
I was intending to use the redundant immersion heater circuit to power the U/floor heating, but this would require a lot of fiddly work to get the outlet from upstairs (outside the bathroom) to a suitable position in the kitchen-diner.
A friend (an engineer with a large white-goods company) who supplied my new oven and induction hob says that they can be powered through a normal 13A socket; I had thought of running a spur from the current double socket for this purpose. This would mean that the current hob cable would become redundant.
Can I therefore use this for the u/floor heating? Do I need to use thinner cable, or simply change the mcb in the fuse box? Or both?
Could I even power the hob, oven and u/floor heating from this one cable?
Hope this make sense and someone is able to advise! :dozey:
I am in the process of planning (i.e. I won't be installing it, but I'm trying to figure out what I want and where!) the rewiring of my kitchen, since knocking down a wall to combine our kitchen with the dining room.
Current situation:
The builder left me with a thick cable coming from a rose(?), replacing an identical one, which is currently connected to the hob; he did this to allow us to continue using the kitchen whilst waiting for our units and new appliances.
The oven has a three-pin plug which we connect to a socket that was originally in the dining room.
There is an external light which has a three-pin plug which I also plug into this socket.
My future (proposed) situation:
I would like to connect the new oven and hob, as well as the external light, to switched FSUs.
I am also having underfloor heating.
The Issue:
I was intending to use the redundant immersion heater circuit to power the U/floor heating, but this would require a lot of fiddly work to get the outlet from upstairs (outside the bathroom) to a suitable position in the kitchen-diner.
A friend (an engineer with a large white-goods company) who supplied my new oven and induction hob says that they can be powered through a normal 13A socket; I had thought of running a spur from the current double socket for this purpose. This would mean that the current hob cable would become redundant.
Can I therefore use this for the u/floor heating? Do I need to use thinner cable, or simply change the mcb in the fuse box? Or both?
Could I even power the hob, oven and u/floor heating from this one cable?
Hope this make sense and someone is able to advise! :dozey:
