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Hi,
I'm refitting/updating my kitchen cupboards like for like but the cooker control switch is located within the cupboard! It was like this when I purchased the house and has been like it since circa 1985.
Please see the drawing/picture - cable is in red
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Question:
Although I don’t use this cooker circuit at the movement this is not ideal/correct/stupid i'd like to take the opportunity to move it to the lower location.
However I'm after the best solution an electrician would use to do this. I.e. where the existing switch is would it need joining with a 45amp terminal block/strip with a blanking plate (for accessibility), with a new/longer section of cable between existing and new location?
Or if this is a no no, would it need an entire length of cable from the CU? I can get to it under the landing and bathroom but it’s not easy!
As I said I don’t currently use this circuit because I don’t have an electric cooker, just gas. However it does have a mains 240v ignition. This is plugged in to a spur socket within the cupboard to the right (see blue cable In picture) which comes from a double socket above worktop level.
This isn’t the best Idea because you have to remove and rewire the plug – but it ‘works’
Many must be connected like this?
Thanks.
I'm refitting/updating my kitchen cupboards like for like but the cooker control switch is located within the cupboard! It was like this when I purchased the house and has been like it since circa 1985.
Please see the drawing/picture - cable is in red
View media item 66561
Question:
Although I don’t use this cooker circuit at the movement this is not ideal/correct/stupid i'd like to take the opportunity to move it to the lower location.
However I'm after the best solution an electrician would use to do this. I.e. where the existing switch is would it need joining with a 45amp terminal block/strip with a blanking plate (for accessibility), with a new/longer section of cable between existing and new location?
Or if this is a no no, would it need an entire length of cable from the CU? I can get to it under the landing and bathroom but it’s not easy!
As I said I don’t currently use this circuit because I don’t have an electric cooker, just gas. However it does have a mains 240v ignition. This is plugged in to a spur socket within the cupboard to the right (see blue cable In picture) which comes from a double socket above worktop level.
This isn’t the best Idea because you have to remove and rewire the plug – but it ‘works’
Many must be connected like this?
Thanks.