I am just in the process of moving things around in my kitchen and am fitting some new units this weekend.
I currently have a double socket inside one of my units, served by an unfused spur. Not sure what size cable feeds it, but it is a fairly big one (one of the flatter, not particularly flexible ones), and it has had an electric oven plugged into it for as long as I have lived here.
It would be convenient if I could connect the following into this plug socket (or this spur) instead:
1 x Dishwasher, rated at 2.2kW (2kW heater, 200W pump)
1 x 2kW plinth heater
Question 1 is 'Can I do that just by plugging them in ?'. The dishwasher has a plug on anyway. The instructions with the heater say to put it into a 10A fused spur, but I don't know if that is just them covering themselves or not, and there's nothing really to stop me plugging two 13A 'things' into the existing double socket.
Question 2, if the answer to Question 1 is No, is what is the simplest / safest way of doing this? If they could be on the same spur, the plinth heater would come after the socket that the dishwasher is going into. Could I, say, replace the double socket with a single socket and then follow that up with an FCU and an extension of the spur to the plinth heater, or is that geting a bit dodgy ?
Taking the feed for the plinth heater from anywhere else will be a lot of a nuisance so if I can put them both on this it would be handy...
I currently have a double socket inside one of my units, served by an unfused spur. Not sure what size cable feeds it, but it is a fairly big one (one of the flatter, not particularly flexible ones), and it has had an electric oven plugged into it for as long as I have lived here.
It would be convenient if I could connect the following into this plug socket (or this spur) instead:
1 x Dishwasher, rated at 2.2kW (2kW heater, 200W pump)
1 x 2kW plinth heater
Question 1 is 'Can I do that just by plugging them in ?'. The dishwasher has a plug on anyway. The instructions with the heater say to put it into a 10A fused spur, but I don't know if that is just them covering themselves or not, and there's nothing really to stop me plugging two 13A 'things' into the existing double socket.
Question 2, if the answer to Question 1 is No, is what is the simplest / safest way of doing this? If they could be on the same spur, the plinth heater would come after the socket that the dishwasher is going into. Could I, say, replace the double socket with a single socket and then follow that up with an FCU and an extension of the spur to the plinth heater, or is that geting a bit dodgy ?
Taking the feed for the plinth heater from anywhere else will be a lot of a nuisance so if I can put them both on this it would be handy...