Appreciate any help guys thanks
Rennovating an extremely old kitchen (1960's). Want to add sockets and have three questions.
Have a cooker switch which is on a 30 amp trip fuse marked 'Cooker' from the main fuse box. Currently we have added a 30 amp junction box to remove the cooker switch and connected a double socket onward instead. The junction box also leads to power the controls for the central heating via a 5amp fuse switch.
Also looking to spur onward from the double socket up to another single socket to power the extractor hood.
Do I need a 13 amp fuse switch between the 30 amp junction box and the double or from the double to the onward single? The cable is 4mm going into the junction box and 2.5mm coming out to the double, heating controls etc.
Have another double socket which has a single 2.5mm cable going in. This is isolated from a separate 30A fuse in the main fuse box marked 'power sockets'. Need to spur off this for a socket to power a washing machine. Does this need to be via a fused switch?
Have yet another double on the other side of the kitchen. Doing nothing with this but it has two cables in and so I guess it's on the ring main. This appeared isolated when the 'power sockets' fuse in the main box is off, as is the socket in the above paragraph, and yet when removing, the mains power tripped, suggesting it wasn't fully isolated? Why would this be?
Thank you
Steve
Rennovating an extremely old kitchen (1960's). Want to add sockets and have three questions.
Have a cooker switch which is on a 30 amp trip fuse marked 'Cooker' from the main fuse box. Currently we have added a 30 amp junction box to remove the cooker switch and connected a double socket onward instead. The junction box also leads to power the controls for the central heating via a 5amp fuse switch.
Also looking to spur onward from the double socket up to another single socket to power the extractor hood.
Do I need a 13 amp fuse switch between the 30 amp junction box and the double or from the double to the onward single? The cable is 4mm going into the junction box and 2.5mm coming out to the double, heating controls etc.
Have another double socket which has a single 2.5mm cable going in. This is isolated from a separate 30A fuse in the main fuse box marked 'power sockets'. Need to spur off this for a socket to power a washing machine. Does this need to be via a fused switch?
Have yet another double on the other side of the kitchen. Doing nothing with this but it has two cables in and so I guess it's on the ring main. This appeared isolated when the 'power sockets' fuse in the main box is off, as is the socket in the above paragraph, and yet when removing, the mains power tripped, suggesting it wasn't fully isolated? Why would this be?
Thank you
Steve