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(Lurch) wrote in message ...
On 27 Feb 2004 14:37:23 -0800, (Martin) wrote:

Labelled: Sockets
Rating: 40 amps
1 thick wire
Controls:
Kitchen cooker socket (hob and oven are both gas - control
igniters only)
Shower

Looks like this is totally wrong. There should be a seperate circuit
for cooker and shower, mast probably 32A each.

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The circuit controlling the cooker and shower is totally
wrong and should be corrected *immediately*.

Surely this isn't *that* bad, given that the OP has all-electric
cooking? Agreed it's wrongly done, given that it would be possible
for him to go out and buy an electric oven and plug it in to the same
circuit as the shower; however given that constraint, it doesn't look
like an urgent problem. (And does he actually have an electric
shower?!)

Presumably at some time in the past, when the shower was fitted, the
fitter would have found the 40A circuit with no oven on the end, and
decided to hook the shower up to that rather than install a new
circuit?

David