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    Best practice ? installing single electric oven and hob

    I'm guessing you're saying 6mm2 will be fine. The board couldn't take an Amperage hike in an upgrade and running 10mm2 would be hard as the place is victorian and it's behind plaster somewhere in the hall I think.
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    Best practice ? installing single electric oven and hob

    sorry, been reading things back to myself. Another ? FROM cooker switch currently wired to a 30A fuse in the consumer unit TO the terminal box for the Hob is 6mm2 OK or should I use 10mm2 distance is about 1m behind plasterboard
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    Best practice ? installing single electric oven and hob

    Many thanks. I can now get the floor down , cables in and units in place! I certainly do prefer to do things myself checking my moves with others. My previous two houses, in one a qualified electrician had left an open 45A power shower cct sitting on a loft joist wired into a nylon...
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    Best practice ? installing single electric oven and hob

    Consumer unit Wylex WSES63/2 with 2x 5A fused lighting ccts NB05-type 2 1x 30A fused socket cct NB30-type 2 1x 30A fused cooker cct. NB30-type 2 It has a 30mA earth leakage trip (blew one of the lighting ccts last night when a bulb blew, is this normal or should I check...
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    Best practice ? installing single electric oven and hob

    The oven is 2.8kW The Hob is 7kW Total is 9.8kW sorry for confusion. As this is 7kW/240V = <30A for the hob I thought the existing 30A cct would suffice if I removed the 13A socket. I'll loop the terminal box for the oven through the existing socket ring main and spur from there...
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    Best practice ? installing single electric oven and hob

    I have a Neff single oven (2.8kW) and Neff electric hob (7kW) to install (was to be a gas hob so no planning was done) There is a cooker switch with 13A socket on the wall but no apparent further terminal box. The kitchen currently has a freestanding gas cooker with no...
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    Installing a new kitchen!!

    I can add my vote to B&Q. I have helped install three kitchens now. (on my own on the latest and B&Q are causing me no problems at all. It's the rest of the stuff!) To fit wall and floor carcasses, with doors, glass doors, oven units and drawers units, I have used a philips screw driver...
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    Best practice installing Neff electric single oven and hob

    I have a Neff single oven (2.8kW) and electric hob (7kW) to install (was to be a gas hob so no planning was done) There is a cooker switch with 13A socket on the wall but no apparent further terminal box. The kitchen currently has a freestanding gas cooker with no...
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    Best practice installing Neff electric hob & single oven

    I have a Neff single oven (2.8kW) and electric hob (7kW) to install (was to be a gas hob so no planning was done) There is a cooker switch with 13A socket on the wall but no apparent further terminal box. The kitchen currently has a freestanding gas cooker with no electric connections. The...
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    Best practice-connecting electric hob & separate single

    I have a Neff single oven (2.8kW) and electric hob (7kW) to install (was to be a gas hob so no planning was done) There is a cooker switch with 13A socket on the wall but no apparent further terminal box. The kitchen currently has a freestanding gas cooker with no electric connections. The...
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    Best practice-connecting electric hob & separate single

    I have a Neff single oven (2.8kW) and electric hob (7kW) to install (was to be a gas hob so no planning was done) There is a cooker switch with 13A socket on the wall but no apparent further terminal box. The kitchen currently has a freestanding gas cooker with no electric connections. The...
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