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sorry i may not have been clear. the socket into which the extension is plugged is a separate socket NEXT to the cooker SWITCH not the actual outlet. in other words its just a normal plughole. the only other double socket in the kitchen is in an inconvenient spot re the layout of where i want...

ok. i'm just going to use an ordinary 4 gang extension lead plugged into the socket you can see in my pictures on the same unit as the cooker switch and run the fridge and the oven (on a 13amp plug) off that. i am still a bit confused as to how come my entire plughole system is fed by what...

check the thread again ban all sheds that wasn't me you and col jack replied to. i've just checked my other sockets and they are all connected with 2.5mm cabling through ducting off a 30amp fuse. 12 sockets in all throughout the flat. btw although i said it was 50's wiring i'm assuming now...

sorry i don't what answer you're talking about. but listen. the cables feeding the cooker switch and related socket are fat bastards, look like 5mm to me but must be 4mm ? unless old style cabling was in imperial measurements. but a simple solution has just occured to me till i can afford the...

as you were. just measured them again and compared them to my 2.5 cable they seem a smidgin thicker but closer to the 2.5 that i thought so probably thats what they are, 2.5. so that being the case the only way to extra sockets in that corner of the kitchen is to get it rewired from the fusebox...

the first link to my so called earlier posts leads straight back to this thread. the second link leads to a thread i have never posted on. though i did read it and weirdly intended to post my original question on it. but unless you are seeing something different to me my post appears only on...

yes sorry about that link. how about this item http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/MK1130.html i already run the fridge freezer from an extension cable plugged into the socket on the cooker switch unit. i didn't think it was that big a deal re regs etc. the only reg. i'm aware of is the...

or should i use something like this, as its rated 30 amps ? http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?moduleno=1193 remember i'm not "hanging bits off it" or "lashing it up" merely attempting to create an additional 1 double socket plus 1 single socket radial circuit in my kitchen :!: :?:

you don't know that i'm going to do it anyway as you are not, unless you are on completely the wrong forum, a mind reader. true i might do it but if i get enough sensible advice advising me not to do it, i might not. its not like i'm planning to rewire the whole gaff myself is it. there are...

thanks for the reply prenticeboy are you saying no-one can do diy electrical work at all, not even putting in some extra plugholes, without these inspections and fees applying ? i've not seen that on any other threads i've read.

i take your point. i am a terror for trying to save on costs. i don't want to "just lash it together" though. and of course my primary concern is safety. its a 50's wired flat that needs a complete rewire but in the meantime till i can afford to get that done i just want to extend the circuit...

thanks ever so much for those replies. i'm thinking in light of what you've said that i should use the cooker connection for the hob alone and create a separate circuit for the other three appliances; namely the oven, extractor fan and finally the fridge freezer. there is a connection box...

hello. i need to wire in a new built in type cooker which the instructions say would be ok on just a 13amp plug, which surprised me. and on top an electric hob which apparently needs to go into a cooker point protected by ??? it doesen't say. its a bosch ordinary electric hob. not halogen or...

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