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Electrics - is this right?
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On 25 Mar, 19:43, Owain wrote:
Martin Pentreath wrote:
What is worrying me is that it seems that in the kitchen there is no
separate cooker circuit. He's having a gas hob and an electric oven. I
presume that the oven is a 13A one (I don't know), but even so I
wouldn't be comfortable running that off the same ring as the rest of
the kitchen. Is such topography within either the spirit or the letter
of the current regs?
It's permissible if the oven is a 13A one, as many are. Rather a cheap
way of doing it IMO but I suppose the assumption is the oven probably
won't be used much.
Is the immersion heater also on the ring? Because that's not supposed to
happen.
Owain
OK, thanks Owain. I will check about the immersion, but that has
slightly put my mind at rest. Knowing the friend in question it is
highly likely that the oven will only be used for heating up pizzas
once a month. But for six grand you would think the bloke could have
put in another bit of cable. He's had the flat empty and chased out
the screed, so another cable run would not really be much additional
trouble. Just for forward planning I would want a heavy duty cooker
circuit there to cope with possible changes of cooker in future
without the need for another rewire..
Incidentally the £6k did not extent to redoing the screed. He had
another bloke in to quote for that and was given a price of £1,000 for
filling in about 25 linear metres of conduit chasing in the floor! A
day's unskilled work I reckon. I've put him onto someone else who will
think it's a good job for £200. It's all enough to make you want to do-
it-yourself.
Cheers!
Martin
Some full size ovens dont even eat 13A, its ok. £200, sheesh.
NT
Our double oven takes about 18A as I recall so it is on a separate circuit.
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