Recent content by paulycoul

Thanks Crafty. Spurring off the cooker point is the kind of thing I would do!! It seems the world is full of Mr Botch-It's - myself included. Could I power the shed by a spur from an existing plug socket?

Didn't get a chance to check the rating of the oven or fuse. However, I did identify that the 'mystery wire' feeds a socket in the shed which is currently serving the tumble dryer!

Thanks for your quick reply, Crafty. I'm at work at the moment and don't know the rating of the oven or the unit. The new appliance is a double electric oven with electric hob. There is no separate hob, so that doesn't solve the mystery of the additional wire (yet!). Paul

Hi. My terminal outlet box behind the oven already has two sets of wires running into it. One that presumably comes from the radial circuit. The other that comes from "somewhere behind the plaster"! The wires are only live when I switch on the control unit. Presumably, I can just wire my...