Hi,
My cooker is plugged into a wall socket, a normal 13 amp plug. Its been like that since the dawn of time.
It is quite inaccessible.
Looking in the loft that single socket is on a heavy duty cable so it looks like it was wired up for the job. Nothing else on the circuit, just that one socket from fuse box to plug with its own trip switch.
I would like to change the socket up to a double. Its pointless putting a 13amp extension on it as the load from cooker and another appliance will trip it out. I.e I would have expected a cooker to be about 40 amp fuse so if it works fine on 13 it must be close to its max loading.
My Q. Should I leave the socket as a dedicated cooker socket or would it be possible to add another to it, I think there will be enough room to go from single to double gang although I'm not looking fwd to trying to get in and wire it.
ideally I could use a plug in extender but this will be a 13 amp so it will overload.
Can you buy greater than 13amp extension leads, doublers. Does a plug in solution exist to avoid the need to rewire (only because it is so inaccessible)
My guess is the proper solution is to rewire it to a cooker socket with a 13amp plug socket, which I would do without hesitation if it was not so inaccessible.
Just to re add, the cooker is running through a 13amp plug in a 'normal socket bar the fact it has very heavy duty wiring behind it. Has done for years.
Many thanks
Kevin
My cooker is plugged into a wall socket, a normal 13 amp plug. Its been like that since the dawn of time.
It is quite inaccessible.
Looking in the loft that single socket is on a heavy duty cable so it looks like it was wired up for the job. Nothing else on the circuit, just that one socket from fuse box to plug with its own trip switch.
I would like to change the socket up to a double. Its pointless putting a 13amp extension on it as the load from cooker and another appliance will trip it out. I.e I would have expected a cooker to be about 40 amp fuse so if it works fine on 13 it must be close to its max loading.
My Q. Should I leave the socket as a dedicated cooker socket or would it be possible to add another to it, I think there will be enough room to go from single to double gang although I'm not looking fwd to trying to get in and wire it.
ideally I could use a plug in extender but this will be a 13 amp so it will overload.
Can you buy greater than 13amp extension leads, doublers. Does a plug in solution exist to avoid the need to rewire (only because it is so inaccessible)
My guess is the proper solution is to rewire it to a cooker socket with a 13amp plug socket, which I would do without hesitation if it was not so inaccessible.
Just to re add, the cooker is running through a 13amp plug in a 'normal socket bar the fact it has very heavy duty wiring behind it. Has done for years.
Many thanks
Kevin
