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What I want to know is my oven does the ring main cable first go into the 13a switch and on to a plug socket and terminate there. And my hob does the cable go through a 45a cooker switch and terminate at a 45 a cooker connection point.

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cheers sparks. You can't all be bad. I'll try to think twice on site not to fill the boxes with plaster when I'm skimming.

Does it specifiy whitch side it should be located?

What is the minimum safe distance to put a cooker switch away from the side of the hob.

Spark123 I understand that I will run the hob of the cooker circit and the oven off the ring circit. but why would I use a 13a fused connection unit and not a 45a cooker switch as the spur?

JohnD I've been getting a list of required parts for my Hob/Cooker connection together and one thing is puzzling me, You advised me to use a 13a fused connection unit but I have found that most cooker switches are 45a wich is a big difference. Please advise.

what is an an earth leak and what would be the tell tail signs, is it dangerous.

None of the above. Just regular stuff microwave, P.C, DVD, Amplifier, tv, washing machine....

Thanks for the help. Just one more thing using the setup you've advised is there a chance with the max load of my Consumer unit that it will trip when other appliances are active in the house at the same time. Cheers

What do you mean by a 10Amp cartridge fuse. have you got a picture of one please.

Sorry JohnD the hob is 6kw. The consumer unit is a Crabtree Starbreaker. The cooker cable coming out of the kitcken wall is coming from an RCD protected circuit (MCD B32). Which is switched off. The main switch is 100A. On the consumer unit there is a yellow test button and an on/off...

I'm a plasterer and belive me you dont want to be skimming out a room that you want to live with if youve not done it before. You might just get away with the walls (spanish villa effect) but You'll get into a right mess with the ceiling. My advise to you mate is save yourself a lot of time and...

But will a 2,3kw hob run off this cable which at one time ran a cooker

I have a cable coming from the wall from which a cooker was once connected to. Can I connect the hob directly to this cable via a junction box. What type of junction box.