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Yep, got one of those ... - thanks for all your help. I'll take your advice re. checking everything when the spur is disconnected - I used to have my central heating boiler in the kitchen but has now been reloacted ... but the engineers kindly left the FCU (and most likely all the cabling with...

I am reasonably technically minded, i.e I know 240 V will have the wife checking the insurance policy , I will test the FCU as you describe ..... I take it all I need is a circuit tester (which I have).

Thanks for the info, there are so many sockets/FCU's etc in my Kitchen .. it's hard to track them all You've probably guessed I know only the basics so I am looking for the simplest way to connect this cooker.

Yeah I guess it will, I simply wanted to find out if it was a safe way to connect the oven.

ban-all-sheds, Many question marks... I'll describe how this FCU is connected - The FCU isolates 1 single socket under the kitchen sink into which is plugged the washing mashine, there are 3 seperate 'supply' (2.5mm) connections into the FCU and 1 single 'load' out.... Does this sound...

There's a washing machine, but it has a seperate FCU (3 seperate supply connections into the FCU , 1 load out). I may be wrong about the 30A ring fedding all ground floor, there are 3 x 30A fuses at the consumer unit - I guess 1 may also feed the kitchen seperately. Does it appear that the...

Thanks for the info, I don't have any other high drain running on the downstairs ring (lights TV HiFi ,unless a Kettle is conted as high drain), can U tell me what a FCU is ??.

Hi, I am replacing a single electric oven (Candy F211 - rated 2200W) with a Belling XOU178 (also single electric rated 2060 W) - The candy was connected via a normal 13 A 3-pin plug to a double socket - I also have a gas hob which is also connected to this double socket - The manual for the...