Hi all,
I’m in the process of refitting my kitchen and on removing the existing tiles from the walls it has revealed (amongst other things) that the electric oven and gas hob (so I assume that’s the electric starter on that) are running from a cooker switch with socket outlet which is connected to a single (32A) fuse in the consumer unit – the consumer unit is an old style plug-in wire fuse type that has had those replaced with MCB plug-ins. Spurred off the cooker switch are the cooker hood (there’s no switch or fuse or anything, it’s just a direct connection) and also a double switched socket. From reading around it would appear that this is perhaps not the way to do things, so what would be the correct way to do it?
In case it helps: the electric oven has a rating of 1.2kW (I’m trying to remember the info from the manual, I can’t find it on-line), I don’t know what the gas hob is rated at, the cooker hood (new one to be delivered) is rated at 200W. The double switched socket usually has a toaster and kettle running on it.
Thanks,
Mike
I’m in the process of refitting my kitchen and on removing the existing tiles from the walls it has revealed (amongst other things) that the electric oven and gas hob (so I assume that’s the electric starter on that) are running from a cooker switch with socket outlet which is connected to a single (32A) fuse in the consumer unit – the consumer unit is an old style plug-in wire fuse type that has had those replaced with MCB plug-ins. Spurred off the cooker switch are the cooker hood (there’s no switch or fuse or anything, it’s just a direct connection) and also a double switched socket. From reading around it would appear that this is perhaps not the way to do things, so what would be the correct way to do it?
In case it helps: the electric oven has a rating of 1.2kW (I’m trying to remember the info from the manual, I can’t find it on-line), I don’t know what the gas hob is rated at, the cooker hood (new one to be delivered) is rated at 200W. The double switched socket usually has a toaster and kettle running on it.
Thanks,
Mike