Hi all,
I was hoping for some help/advice with the installation of a cooker hood. I'd need to install an FCU and I think I can do this myself without calling out an electrician (which I suppose is Question 1 - should I?). But I've not done any significant electrical work before other than changing the odd socket plate etc.
Here's a picture of the setup. The cooker switch is close to a double socket, due to the fact we had to shift it sideways to make room for the cooker backplate (I did get an electrician out for that, and I admit that the "I could have done that!" factor is at play here...) . Therefore mains come in sideways to cooker switch.
So I reckon the options are:
1) Take a spur off the cooker switch - this is the easiest in terms of wiring and channelling but is this recommended, electrically speaking?
2) Take a spur off the double socket - although the channelling here would be more difficult - the hole in the top of the box is already used up by the ring mains, and sideways there's not a lot of room due to the cooker switch
3) Remove the double socket entirely, cut back the wiring and put the FCU on directly on the ring mains - although that would leave it a bit far away from the hood
4) make a new link to the ring mains for the FCU - really too intrusive for what I want to do. Or could I put in a junction box ? (again getting a little more complex than I'd wanted)
Any recommendations ?
Aslo, should I, as a novice, attempt something like this. If not, even if I don't do the wiring, at the very least I'd want to do all the channelling etc. - don't need to pay someone to do that...
Cheers
Ginster
I was hoping for some help/advice with the installation of a cooker hood. I'd need to install an FCU and I think I can do this myself without calling out an electrician (which I suppose is Question 1 - should I?). But I've not done any significant electrical work before other than changing the odd socket plate etc.
Here's a picture of the setup. The cooker switch is close to a double socket, due to the fact we had to shift it sideways to make room for the cooker backplate (I did get an electrician out for that, and I admit that the "I could have done that!" factor is at play here...) . Therefore mains come in sideways to cooker switch.
So I reckon the options are:
1) Take a spur off the cooker switch - this is the easiest in terms of wiring and channelling but is this recommended, electrically speaking?
2) Take a spur off the double socket - although the channelling here would be more difficult - the hole in the top of the box is already used up by the ring mains, and sideways there's not a lot of room due to the cooker switch
3) Remove the double socket entirely, cut back the wiring and put the FCU on directly on the ring mains - although that would leave it a bit far away from the hood
4) make a new link to the ring mains for the FCU - really too intrusive for what I want to do. Or could I put in a junction box ? (again getting a little more complex than I'd wanted)
Any recommendations ?
Aslo, should I, as a novice, attempt something like this. If not, even if I don't do the wiring, at the very least I'd want to do all the channelling etc. - don't need to pay someone to do that...
Cheers
Ginster