My house was extended on the ground floor in 2003, by the previous owners.
The current kitchen has a build in oven and a separate hob. They're both on 6mm T+E and they both have their own isolators, and they are their own final circuits on 32A MCBs
In the last few days I've been in the roofspace above the extension (above the new part of the kitchen) and I've also had some floorboards up above the old part of the kitchen too (doing some plumbing you see).
It's now clear the one of the cooking circuits is a new (in 2003) piece of 6mm running in one length to the isolator.
But the other one its clear that they've used the cable that would have originally powered the cooker before the house was extended - it;s been pushed up into the ceiling and jointed to a new length of 6mm in a junction box and left under the floorboards, which isn't really acceptable (and I don't think it was in 2003 either (16th edition then, I think?))
Is there an acceptable way of joining T+E as large as 6mm? or should this whole circuit be replaced from CU to isolator so there are no breaks in it?
If appropriate, what product should I use? There's enough slack in the cable to work with, I think.
cheers
slip
The current kitchen has a build in oven and a separate hob. They're both on 6mm T+E and they both have their own isolators, and they are their own final circuits on 32A MCBs
In the last few days I've been in the roofspace above the extension (above the new part of the kitchen) and I've also had some floorboards up above the old part of the kitchen too (doing some plumbing you see).
It's now clear the one of the cooking circuits is a new (in 2003) piece of 6mm running in one length to the isolator.
But the other one its clear that they've used the cable that would have originally powered the cooker before the house was extended - it;s been pushed up into the ceiling and jointed to a new length of 6mm in a junction box and left under the floorboards, which isn't really acceptable (and I don't think it was in 2003 either (16th edition then, I think?))
Is there an acceptable way of joining T+E as large as 6mm? or should this whole circuit be replaced from CU to isolator so there are no breaks in it?
If appropriate, what product should I use? There's enough slack in the cable to work with, I think.
cheers
slip