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?


Many ovens are only about 2kW and designed to plug in. Some double ovens
have a higher peak load though.

In all likelihood it's fine.

(Incidentally, I possibly went to the other extreme and put a cooker
circuit in (mine is 16A) and then two separate rings for everything
else (and there's no washing machine there).)

Remember you can also apply diversity to domestic cooking appliances.
Which works out as 10A + 30% of the remaining load (plus another 5A if
there is a socket on the cooker point).

So even a cooker with a 30A maximum load, can be provisioned with a
circuit designed for a load of 10 + (30 - 10) * 0.3 = 16A

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Cheers,

John.

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