Hi
I am installing a cooker hood with chimney above a gas cooker. The cooker hood/chimney is a 'stand alone' unit (there are no wall units on this wall).
I have a double socket on the ring main 10cms to the left of the cooker, above the worktop. (Is that permissable? The cooker was previously further to the right.)
I plan to run a spur from this, chased in, vertically up to fcu located above it, and then run 2.5mm flat twin and earth (chased in, in conduit) diagonally up to a position within the chimney where it will be connected with a chocolate block connector to the hood lead.
I am uneasy about the diagonal chased in wiring (is it permitted?) but as cooker hoods are above cookers I can't imagine any other way of routing the cable. (I suppose I could have the fcu so far up the wall that it is level with the chimney, giving me a horizontal chase, but then the switch is out of reach.)
If the double socket is too close to the cooker then I guess I could replace it with the fcu - but I still have to run the cable to the hood up and across (diagonally?) somehow.
Cheers
I am installing a cooker hood with chimney above a gas cooker. The cooker hood/chimney is a 'stand alone' unit (there are no wall units on this wall).
I have a double socket on the ring main 10cms to the left of the cooker, above the worktop. (Is that permissable? The cooker was previously further to the right.)
I plan to run a spur from this, chased in, vertically up to fcu located above it, and then run 2.5mm flat twin and earth (chased in, in conduit) diagonally up to a position within the chimney where it will be connected with a chocolate block connector to the hood lead.
I am uneasy about the diagonal chased in wiring (is it permitted?) but as cooker hoods are above cookers I can't imagine any other way of routing the cable. (I suppose I could have the fcu so far up the wall that it is level with the chimney, giving me a horizontal chase, but then the switch is out of reach.)
If the double socket is too close to the cooker then I guess I could replace it with the fcu - but I still have to run the cable to the hood up and across (diagonally?) somehow.
Cheers