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Hello any advice / thoughts would be appreciated:
I have a 45a cooker switch with socket on the wall behind the cooker but I want to either move it or do away with it completely. I now have a gas hob and oven on a 13amp plug witch are both plugged into a socket spurred off a Cooker Connection Unit. The cooker switch is above the connection unit.
What I propose to do is use a 30A junction box (can't find any 45a ones) and bury it in the plaster thus doing away with the switch. I will also spur off this to feed the extractor.
Is it a legal requirement to have an accessible switch for the cooker?
(My socket is under the worktop behind drawers - not really accesible easily)
If i do need an accessible switch I could put one in a different place to the existing one but would then need to use 2 30amp junction boxes burried in the plaster and some extra cable (probably just 2.4mm).
I can't really see the point in keeping the circuit 45amp as everything is on 13amp plugs anyway.
Any thoughts?
I have a 45a cooker switch with socket on the wall behind the cooker but I want to either move it or do away with it completely. I now have a gas hob and oven on a 13amp plug witch are both plugged into a socket spurred off a Cooker Connection Unit. The cooker switch is above the connection unit.
What I propose to do is use a 30A junction box (can't find any 45a ones) and bury it in the plaster thus doing away with the switch. I will also spur off this to feed the extractor.
Is it a legal requirement to have an accessible switch for the cooker?
(My socket is under the worktop behind drawers - not really accesible easily)
If i do need an accessible switch I could put one in a different place to the existing one but would then need to use 2 30amp junction boxes burried in the plaster and some extra cable (probably just 2.4mm).
I can't really see the point in keeping the circuit 45amp as everything is on 13amp plugs anyway.
Any thoughts?