Good evening all, hope everyone is doing well. I have a couple of questions that I am hoping you guys in the know can help with.
1. Can I install additional sockets in my kitchen?
Currently I have 5 sockets(2 x 2 gang 1 x 1 gang) along one of the walls with an additional 2 gang socket on the wall next to it and I think a hidden 2 Gang in the back of a cupboard that powers a washing machine and the hob igniter (need to confirm if this is on this circuit or the original house ring. The rest of the house seems to be fed off a separate circuit which look to be a ring main (Ring Final, I believe its now called) on its own breaker.
The sockets in the kitchen I want to add attentional sockets to look to be on a radial circuit (need to double check), (with a spur off it already to a 2 gang socket in the livingroom as the cable travels from the CU to the kitchen via the garage wall, hence I can see the junction box and the spur).
Can I extend this radial in the kitchen to add another 2 or 3 2 gang sockets on the 3rd kitchen wall? (U Shaped Kitchen) id also like to install an external socket outside and a outdoor light on the other side of this wall, can the radial end in the outside socket with a spur off that for the light? via a 3A fuse, as i think it would be required rather then the outside light being on the 32A breaker.
Existing circuit (need to double check cable runs):
CU ---x-----> Kitchen 1G socket ------> Kitchen 2G socket -------> Kitchen 2G socket --------> Hidden 2G socket
|
---> Spur to LR 2G socket
However it could be as follows based on the physical position of the sockets and the parts of the cable I can see running along the wall:
--------> Hidden 2G socket
|
CU ---x-----> Kitchen 2G socket ------> Kitchen 2G socket -------> Kitchen 1G socket
|
---> Spur to LR 2G socket
Everything in this house seems to have been bodged at one point or another so anything is possible.
2. I currently have a electric oven and gas hob with an electric igniter, the oven is connected on its own circuit via a 40A breaker. This seems to terminate in a large Twin & Earth cable that comes out the wall and directly into the oven via a wall switch. The gas hob igniter is terminated in a plug and plugged in to a socket (hidden socket above).
Should I terminate this cable from the wall in a proper cooker termination point and run a flex to the oven from this, secondly the hob ignitor, can this be wired to the same circuit so the cooker switch isolates both the oven and cooker rather then just the oven, I guess I cant directly connect this to the 40A circuit and would need to spur it off via a 3A fused spur?
Thanks in advance!
1. Can I install additional sockets in my kitchen?
Currently I have 5 sockets(2 x 2 gang 1 x 1 gang) along one of the walls with an additional 2 gang socket on the wall next to it and I think a hidden 2 Gang in the back of a cupboard that powers a washing machine and the hob igniter (need to confirm if this is on this circuit or the original house ring. The rest of the house seems to be fed off a separate circuit which look to be a ring main (Ring Final, I believe its now called) on its own breaker.
The sockets in the kitchen I want to add attentional sockets to look to be on a radial circuit (need to double check), (with a spur off it already to a 2 gang socket in the livingroom as the cable travels from the CU to the kitchen via the garage wall, hence I can see the junction box and the spur).
Can I extend this radial in the kitchen to add another 2 or 3 2 gang sockets on the 3rd kitchen wall? (U Shaped Kitchen) id also like to install an external socket outside and a outdoor light on the other side of this wall, can the radial end in the outside socket with a spur off that for the light? via a 3A fuse, as i think it would be required rather then the outside light being on the 32A breaker.
Existing circuit (need to double check cable runs):
CU ---x-----> Kitchen 1G socket ------> Kitchen 2G socket -------> Kitchen 2G socket --------> Hidden 2G socket
|
---> Spur to LR 2G socket
However it could be as follows based on the physical position of the sockets and the parts of the cable I can see running along the wall:
--------> Hidden 2G socket
|
CU ---x-----> Kitchen 2G socket ------> Kitchen 2G socket -------> Kitchen 1G socket
|
---> Spur to LR 2G socket
Everything in this house seems to have been bodged at one point or another so anything is possible.
2. I currently have a electric oven and gas hob with an electric igniter, the oven is connected on its own circuit via a 40A breaker. This seems to terminate in a large Twin & Earth cable that comes out the wall and directly into the oven via a wall switch. The gas hob igniter is terminated in a plug and plugged in to a socket (hidden socket above).
Should I terminate this cable from the wall in a proper cooker termination point and run a flex to the oven from this, secondly the hob ignitor, can this be wired to the same circuit so the cooker switch isolates both the oven and cooker rather then just the oven, I guess I cant directly connect this to the 40A circuit and would need to spur it off via a 3A fused spur?
Thanks in advance!