John Rumm wrote:
On 31/01/2020 16:34, Fredxx wrote:
On 31/01/2020 15:56:05, John Rumm wrote:
On 31/01/2020 14:58, Gareth Evans wrote:

I'm fairly sure that when this house was rewired that the cable
from the consumer unit to the cooker point was 6mm, but
recent discussion here has discussed 10mm and even 16mm.

Has the standard changed over the years?

There is probably a wider availability of more powerful cookers (or
hob / oven combinations) than in the past.

I would have said quite the opposite. It's quite common for an oven to
be low enough power to use a standard plug.

True, but its not usually the oven that is the main load with separate
components. Hobs with a maximum demand of 7kW are not uncommon. Whereas
that would have been very high for a complete "electric cooker" of the 70's


I think some of the €˜combi ovens are on the border line for being suitable
to be plugged into a socket.

I recall when we were buying our kitchen, the company checking if the one
we had selected required an extra spur or could run from a socket.

Weve also got a stand alone combi, which we bought before the new kitchen
but still works, and it runs off a normal socket.