Search results

So, just to be clear, if I have a chance of running two seperate radials, what size breaker for each and what size cable for each. I don't want to do more than required because I will never use a full freestanding cooker for example (no offence to anyone who has one)

Taking diversity into consideration, (after all I'm certainly not Jamie Oliver so am unlikely to draw anything like capacity. Can't ever remember using more than two rings on the hob for a start), what would the capacity required then be?

I have a double oven rated at 5kw and a ceramic hob at 5.8kw. I intended to run a 6mm cable from a 32A MCB to a CCU. From this CCU a 6mm cable to the oven. Then a 6mm cable from the oven, along the wall behind the base units (just below worktop) to another CCU in an adjacent cupboard to the hob...

Two questions: 1. Is there a minimum distance that an electric (ceramic) hob needs to be from a sink. 2. The cable run required to the hob position is about 11 metres from the CU. Does this have a bearing on what size cable I need to use and MCB. Not sure yet of the rating of the hob...

I have to put in a new kitchen ring main. Can I run the cables horizontally from socket to socket in the are of the kitchen units. These runs will be buried then tiled over so most of the horizontal run will be between the wall units and the base units?

Is a kitchen a permitted area?

I hear conflicting reports about whether you should bury cable in the wall using conduit or just use cable clips and plaster straight over it. Can somebody please advise because it would be easier to just use cable clips.

Thanks Andrew, you are right. The MCB for the kitchen sockets is 32A.

The cable is 2.5mm T&E. I know this may seem daft but when I look at the MCB's I can't see where it states the size of them

The only reason I wasn't 100% sure is that there are two lives going into the MCB for the kitchen circuit but when I removed a socket it had 3 cables in it, none of which could provide a result on a continuity test so someone suggested the it could be two seperate radials coming from the MCB...

I think it is a radial

I've noticed what seems to be the main circuit cable (2.5 T&E) with a branch feeding a junction box. This then feeds a spur socket. If this is correct does it then mean I can branch off the main cable, then take branches of the branch (hope this makes sense)?

What are cable tracers?

I have a double socket with three cables into it. I have done a continuity test on all three and it doesn't seem that the socket is on a ring. What is the best way for me to find out what the cables supply etc. There are no other sockets nearby that I can see.

Sorry, I meant double pole switch

1. Is it safe to plug the gas hob (for the ignition) straight into a normal socket or does it need to be a FCU 2. The same question again but for a cooker hood.

mapj1 - I will try that, thanks. It isn't only confined to the garage, that is just where I happened to notice it first. Both MCB's have to be off to kill any light. Spark123 - Funny you should ask that question but there is a two way, two gang light switch controlling two seperate light...

Plugwash - I do own a multimeter but I've only just bought it and not looked into how to use it yet. I am a keen DIY'er and would like to learn more about electrics but I'm not daft enough to just do something without checking.

Thanks for that. How would I go about identifying what the third cable is supplying, i.e. as far as I'm aware there are only two light circuits in the house yet there are two wires in one MCB and one in the other?

I noticed when I switched off the upstairs light circuit (MCB) the garage light was still on (consumer unit is in garage). So I switched this back on and switched the downstairs light circuit off and the garage light was still on. On further investigation the downstairs curcuit will only switch...