Hi Guys,
I have done some rewiring in my kitchen and would appreciate your opinions......
When we moved into the house (about 3 months ago) it had not been maintained for about 20+ years.
In the kitchen there was an old cooker that had an isolation switch that was fitted into the cardboard backing of a topcupboard.
So when I changed the kitchen around, and fitted a new double electric oven, I used a 45amp junction (looks like a blanking plate) with 10mm2 45amp cable and extended the existing cooker cable to a new isolation switch accessible above the worktop.
I then had the problem of getting power to the hood/hob and also the missus wanted the microwave to be postioned above the cooker, to give a whole cooking stuff in one place going on.
Sooooo, I ran a spur using 4mm2 cable from the 45 amp junction to a 30 amp junction box. One leg goes to a FCU that in turn feeds the extraction unit, the ignition for the gas hob and a trailing socking to plug in an underunit fan heater. The other leg feeds a standard socket which I will use to plug in the microwave.
My thinking was that if I don`t put the microwave above the cooker it will sit on the side and plug into the accompanying socket on the cooker isolation switch.
Also it seemed to make sense to have all the cooking stuff off the same circuit
I have done some rewiring in my kitchen and would appreciate your opinions......
When we moved into the house (about 3 months ago) it had not been maintained for about 20+ years.
In the kitchen there was an old cooker that had an isolation switch that was fitted into the cardboard backing of a topcupboard.
So when I changed the kitchen around, and fitted a new double electric oven, I used a 45amp junction (looks like a blanking plate) with 10mm2 45amp cable and extended the existing cooker cable to a new isolation switch accessible above the worktop.
I then had the problem of getting power to the hood/hob and also the missus wanted the microwave to be postioned above the cooker, to give a whole cooking stuff in one place going on.
Sooooo, I ran a spur using 4mm2 cable from the 45 amp junction to a 30 amp junction box. One leg goes to a FCU that in turn feeds the extraction unit, the ignition for the gas hob and a trailing socking to plug in an underunit fan heater. The other leg feeds a standard socket which I will use to plug in the microwave.
My thinking was that if I don`t put the microwave above the cooker it will sit on the side and plug into the accompanying socket on the cooker isolation switch.
Also it seemed to make sense to have all the cooking stuff off the same circuit