I've just been looking over the wiring in my kitchen ready for my new kitchen to go in. The one thing I new needed to be done was that the cooker cable needs extending 2-3 meters to put the oven in it's new position.
After reading on here it seemed that the advice was to leave the original cooker switch in place, then run the 2-3 meter run from that switch and put another switch just before the oven.
Well now I've looked it's worse than I expected, currently it is wired up as follows. The cooker cable comes to a double regular socket above the worktop, from this there is a spur which runs to a 13A Fused Switch which has the under cupboard lights wired to it, then from this there is a spur to another double socket under the worktop which has the oven and gas hob plugged in to it. The oven/hob only works if you switch the cupboard lights on.
Is there any other way I can extend the cooker cable? My prefered way would be to use a junction box under the floor above the kitchen and then run it to where it needs to go from there and drop it down the wall. Would this be acceptable, the cable is 6mm
After reading on here it seemed that the advice was to leave the original cooker switch in place, then run the 2-3 meter run from that switch and put another switch just before the oven.
Well now I've looked it's worse than I expected, currently it is wired up as follows. The cooker cable comes to a double regular socket above the worktop, from this there is a spur which runs to a 13A Fused Switch which has the under cupboard lights wired to it, then from this there is a spur to another double socket under the worktop which has the oven and gas hob plugged in to it. The oven/hob only works if you switch the cupboard lights on.
Is there any other way I can extend the cooker cable? My prefered way would be to use a junction box under the floor above the kitchen and then run it to where it needs to go from there and drop it down the wall. Would this be acceptable, the cable is 6mm