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Thanks for everyone's replies, I've contacted the person who sold it, no instruction manual but they reckoned wired up with three wires. It is from Screwfix and the one I've bought looks the same visually but perhaps a different model. I've taken off the internal cover and the live and neutral...

Hi yes it has a flex coming out of the top where the chimney would be, 3 core. It's all connected to a plug at the minute as the bloke wired one up to demonstrate it still worked, but when installed it had been hardwired.

Hi all I'm thinking about fitting a cooker hood to a replacement kitchen, I bought it secondhand but it's a Cooke and Lewis model from Screwfix. Should I connect the earth or not please? The Screwfix website itself says not to as it's a Class II device, but I can't find the double square symbol...

I've been advised not to try and bury anything due to depth of plasterboard and then a breeze block wall right behind. Instead I've been advised to surface mount it inside the cabinet, could I do that with the box linked please?

If I got a double socket is that one where there's no plug socket one side, just a switch then a plug the other. If the wiring for the hob is going below counter then I don't mind putting a plug on the end, but above counter the wiring will be seen, so would prefer to hardwire it. The diagram...

Is the shared output a no-go or ok to do please?

Thankyou, I'll get down Screwfix over the weekend. Once I have a live to that socket, could I share the output between the hob igniter and the cooker hood or am I getting ahead of myself? If it's a no-no I can just put a plug on the hob and run the wiring under the counter but it might make it...

I'll take a look then, it'll probably be in a day or two now as have decided to get lower half of kitchen done so it's half useable. What counts as a maintenance free joint please? As of in one that needs to be opened with a knife or tool? It's not acceptable to make the joint buried in a wall...

Ok. Is that likely to run all the way back to the fuseboard if it's the main feed for the downstairs sockets or will there be a join in each room or something? If so could I terminate that live feed inside a wall somewhere? I have a cooker and 3 pin socket the other side of the hob that I could...

Hi again all, thanks for everyone's help, yes I'm getting confused with safe zones and hot zones by the look of things, so now that's sorted I'll get to work. One other question, if the feed wire that needs to be rerouted turns out to be too short to reach the left hand box what's an acceptable...

Ok thanks to you both, I'm assuming if I'm leaving the earthed metal box in the wall still and using click flows secured inside the box then that wouldn't still make it a safe zone, it has to have the socket front there to make it so? Obviously not disputing what anyone's saying but seems odd...

Worktop will be 50mm left from where it is now.

Reading up on safe zones then if my hob has only moved 50mm to the left from when the original kitchen was fitted (house built in 2003) then unless the regulations changed afterwards then it was illegal when fitted? Or has moving the hob 50mm to the left encroached into the hot/safe zone?

Winston, what's a safe zone please? And it's not safe because of the heat from the cooker or something? It'll be inside the original metal housing and after doing a bit more research was looking at using click flow clips or similar, which would then be half behind a tile and half behind a...

Hi all, DIY isn't really my specialist subject so just thought I'd ask before I went ahead and did it. I'm changing my kitchen but the worktops are second hand. The hob is roughly 50mm further left than my stand alone used to be, and what with having a splashback and a cooker hood I'm having to...

Do I need to or will a mod do it?

Hi, kind of a noob so please be gentle! Basically I just wondered if anyone could help with advice on fitting a Drayton RTS8 with my Lifestyle LP241. The thermo says it's either 2 or 3 wires, Baxi seem to recommend 3 wire fitment, the LP241 manual only seems to show 2 wire fitment. So the...

more about money than being bothered DP. :( this is what i dont understand though, are we bathing in the same water as whats been around the central heating system, or does this only happen if the 'air bubble' fails?

Just wanted to say a big thankyou to all that have posted on here, water's been fine since yesterday evening.

Stephenson's Rocket. :lol: Begs the question as to why I've got one of these in a house that was built in 2003.