joinng cooker cables - choc box connectors?

[elponko]

simiar to my last post, can i use choc box connectors to join cooker cable where i have removed a switch. a friend had this done by a builder (we took the panel off to have a look today as i want to do it) they looked fairly chunky ones and were wrapped up in insulating tape. would this be ok or a bad move?
any help appreciated.

 

[mbga9pgf]

simiar to my last post, can i use choc box connectors to join cooker cable where i have removed a switch. a friend had this done by a builder (we took the panel off to have a look today as i want to do it) they looked fairly chunky ones and were wrapped up in insulating tape. would this be ok or a bad move?
any help appreciated.

Wago do connectors that go up to 6mm and 41A. Maintainance Free and much better than connectors when put in one of their boxes

Edit: Linky:

http://secure.wago.ltd.uk/shop/product/773-173_supplied_in_bags_of_25/

 

[Spark123]

Don't tape connector blocks up with insulation tape, connector blocks need to be in a proper enclosure.
You can get large junction boxes for cooker cables, however any screwed join in a cable still needs to be accessible.

 

[MrWhatIf]

Don't tape connector blocks up with insulation tape, connector blocks need to be in a proper enclosure.
You can get large junction boxes for cooker cables, however any screwed join in a cable still needs to be accessible.

Hope you don't mind if I jump in here but the term "accessible". . . . this can mean many things: From plastered into the wall so totally unaccessible through to fully accessible because it is surface mounted and visible.

With under a floor board, that can be lifted if access is required, somewhere in between the above two examples.

Just wondering if a cable joint under a floor board in a suitable 30A junction box would be considered "accessable"

Thank you for your time.

 

[ColJack]

NO!!!...
plastered into a wall is by no means accessible in anyones definition..

under a floor would only be accessible if you can get at it without the use of a tool, so something like a hole plugged with a SBC cover ( SBC is a big hole saw that drills a recessed round hole and you buy plastic covers that fit in the hole ), or a specifically installed lift off hatch..

this then becomes inaccessible the second you put laminate flooring or tiles down though..

 

[elponko]

thanks everyone. i'll go and buy some bits today.
cheers.

 

[Taylortwocities]

If you use a JB it MUST be more than big enough for the load and designed for the cable.
Suggest these http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/AAJB60.html

You won't find them in Homebase though.

As noted above. Do not even think of using one of these and plastering over it!

 

[bernardgreen]

Hope you don't mind if I jump in here but the term "accessible". . . . this can mean many things: From plastered into the wall~~~~~~~

With comments like that I think most sensible people would prefere that you did not jump ever again.

I don't have a photo of the hole in the wall where a terminal block extending a cooker supply and plastered into the wall overheated, melted, shorted, "exploded" and blew plaster across the room.

I suppose you would say that was "easily accessible" when repair was needed