Hi,
Our kitchen has a 20A ring main for our double oven. Looking at buying a new double oven and they're all 32A. The existing cable appears to come out the consumer unit, up the wall, into the ceiling, along a joist and then back in the wall and goes down to the oven.
The walls are solid and the cable is chased into it. It's a straight line from the consumer unit under the stairs to the oven, albeit up the wall, over the ceiling and down the opposite wall.
My question is, if this isn't 6mm² cable, how much mess and destruction would installing a new cable be? Am I going to have to accept the walls will need chasing and the floorboards upstairs lifting?
Thanks
Our kitchen has a 20A ring main for our double oven. Looking at buying a new double oven and they're all 32A. The existing cable appears to come out the consumer unit, up the wall, into the ceiling, along a joist and then back in the wall and goes down to the oven.
The walls are solid and the cable is chased into it. It's a straight line from the consumer unit under the stairs to the oven, albeit up the wall, over the ceiling and down the opposite wall.
My question is, if this isn't 6mm² cable, how much mess and destruction would installing a new cable be? Am I going to have to accept the walls will need chasing and the floorboards upstairs lifting?
Thanks
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