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Hi everyone,
The previous owner of our new house had the garage plumbed for a washing machine, which frees up space in the kitchen. We have a washer dryer connected in there, and plugged into a double socket A condenser tumble dryer sits beside it and is plugged into the same double socket. On the other side of the garage, our chest freezer (which is currently switched off) is plugged into one of the second set of double sockets. Nothing is plugged in alongside it. The sockets are fed from a CU containing two MCBs - a 32A one for the sockets, and a 6A one for a sensor light above the garage door on the outside.
When we moved in, I ran washing machine and tumble dryer at the same time, and of course the plug for the tumble dryer got quite warm. It wasn't extremely hot, but if I put my hand on it, it did feel quite warm. The plug got warm even if the dryer was running on its own, but never as warm as when it was running alongside the washing machine I reckoned the socket was possibly being overloaded, but I also replaced the double socket faceplate and put a new, "heavy duty" plug on the tumble dryer. Since changing the plug it hasn't felt warm when dryer is in use on its own, and I haven't yet been confident enough to run both together!
I'm sure there's probably a better, and safer, way to connect our washing machine and tumble dryer. I've considered moving the tumble dryer over to where the chest freezer is, and putting the freezer onto the same double socket as the washing machine. But is there an even better way to do this? Preferably one that can be done by a DIYer like me!
The previous owner of our new house had the garage plumbed for a washing machine, which frees up space in the kitchen. We have a washer dryer connected in there, and plugged into a double socket A condenser tumble dryer sits beside it and is plugged into the same double socket. On the other side of the garage, our chest freezer (which is currently switched off) is plugged into one of the second set of double sockets. Nothing is plugged in alongside it. The sockets are fed from a CU containing two MCBs - a 32A one for the sockets, and a 6A one for a sensor light above the garage door on the outside.
When we moved in, I ran washing machine and tumble dryer at the same time, and of course the plug for the tumble dryer got quite warm. It wasn't extremely hot, but if I put my hand on it, it did feel quite warm. The plug got warm even if the dryer was running on its own, but never as warm as when it was running alongside the washing machine I reckoned the socket was possibly being overloaded, but I also replaced the double socket faceplate and put a new, "heavy duty" plug on the tumble dryer. Since changing the plug it hasn't felt warm when dryer is in use on its own, and I haven't yet been confident enough to run both together!
I'm sure there's probably a better, and safer, way to connect our washing machine and tumble dryer. I've considered moving the tumble dryer over to where the chest freezer is, and putting the freezer onto the same double socket as the washing machine. But is there an even better way to do this? Preferably one that can be done by a DIYer like me!