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Have you got plasterboard walls? With corrugated card insulation? If so, you could carefully cut channels thro the board and thread wires through conduit to a radial socket. This sort of mod is considered bad practice as pipes and wires are generally run vertically in interior walls. If there is...

Of course you can use the existing cooker supply for the oven and the hood. All you need to do is replace the existing cooker switch for a double socket outlet. The supply circuit will be correctly fused at 32 amps with 6mm cable and the appliances will be fused down to 13 and 3 amps...

It is possible that the oven element/ wiring/ connector block may be going short circuit when hot or that the element is going to earth intermittantly. It is more likely from what you have described that the fuse running the circuit feeding the oven is overloaded and tripping when other...

Use ardex S16 (no it is not a fighter jet) combined with fine sand, aggressiveley floated and allowed to thoroughly dry. If neccessary level with bonding coat plaster to assure a good finish/