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The Electrician may have called it diversity, I would call it saving money as he was on a fixed price deal to wire the house. However I am reassured that at least it is a legitimate practice. My current hob is 6.3 kw & oven is 5.7kw (ie 12kw in total). Rewiring is out of the question, & I...

I have a house that was built about 13 years ago, the existing hob & oven have a combined draw of 12kw, the circuit breaker is 32A. At the time the Electrician said that was fine as you never get everything going at once. One of the books I have shows a 30A MCB as being fine up to 16kw of...