Socket overload danger?

[ipf]

I've been humming T Rex for the last half hour?......it's boring.

Me I funk, but I don't care, I ain't no square with my corkscrew hair............???

 

[Telegram Sam]

Yea, it's him what put me onto Electricians Forum with my query in the first place

 

[Telegram Sam]

The textbook solution would be to put in a separate extra single or double 13A socket as you say. This would however be a messy operation involving a plasterer / decorator in addition to an electrician. The question is therefore:
Is there a less-than-ideal alternative "solution" that I could adopt which would nonetheless be an improvement over the Heath Robinson extension lead arrangement that I have been using over the past decade or two? On the basis that the most powerful single appliance that would be used at any one time would be the 3 kW kettle, and I would intend not to have this on at the same time as the "965 - 1150W" toaster.

 

[telectrix]

in your first post you said that the cooker switch was always off. this indicated that it no longer powers a cooker, so you could change it for a double socket.

 

[Telegram Sam]

Sorry if this was ambiguous. The reason that the cooker master switch itself is almost always "off" is because I use the microwaves instead of the cooker (!) Once in a blue moon I would switch the cooker on. The socket in the console next to the cooker switch is what I have the extension lead plugged in to.