Cooker and New Hob Installation

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I have recently refitted our kitchen, the existing kitchen had a electric oven and gas hob, we now have the same oven and a new ceramic hob. I am wondering if I can use the existing wiring/sockets...

There is a 6mm cable feeding a cooker switch which then feeds the connection plug socket behind the old oven, which is only 2980W. Next to the cooker switch is a spur to the old connection point for the old hob(behind the oven too), which is just standard ring main cable.

The new hob is 6kw.

What I am thinking is that I can just plug the oven into the old hob connection. Or would that overload it? And then plug the new hob into the oven socket. The cooker/hob cabling is on its own fuse of course.
 
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2.5 mm T&E is not big enough for a 6KW hob & in adding it to your exsisting 3KW oven you are getting to the limit of the 6mm cable, personally I would do it with 10mm, but it is allowed, depending on the length of the run from the consumer unit & how it is routed, in 6mm because of diversity(not having the max load continually).
 
jj4091 said:
2.5 mm T&E is not big enough for a 6KW hob & in adding it to your exsisting 3KW oven you are getting to the limit of the 6mm cable, personally I would do it with 10mm, but it is allowed, depending on the length of the run from the consumer unit & how it is routed, in 6mm because of diversity(not having the max load continually).

Thanks, sorry, so I cannot run the oven on the other 2.5mm and put the hob through the 6mm?
 

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