I've got a sparky in. The attached sketch shows what's being suggested for wiring my oven and hob in. Is this OK? (I've been cowboy'd before)
The red line running across the top of the picture is the existing cooker cable (6mm) that runs in the ceiling all the way across the room (3.9m) then down the internal corner of the room as shown (the old free standing electric cooker was in that corner). The spark has said best approach would be to fit a junction box under the kitchen units and feed both the over and hob from there (as shown). All cables to be 6mm. The feed to the double oven (built in oven) will run under the kitchen units til just before the edge of the double oven, the cable is then run in a chase up the wall to the oven switch as shown and back out to the oven. The edge of the oven is 1.2m from the corner where the JB is located. The feed to the hob is also under the units til just below the hob switch then as before, a chase up to the hob switch then back down to run under the units to connect to the hob. The hob is 2m from the back wall where the hob switch is located. The hob switch is 2.7m from the internal corner where the old 6mm cooker cable runs.
Couple of specific questions:
1. Is is ok to run cables flapping around under kitchen units?
2. Is it OK to have a JB under the units?
3. Would it be possible to have just one oven&hob swich in the internal corner of the room (cut into the old cooker cable) and do away with the two separate ones? Might then be able to run both feeds between JB and oven/hob without chasing out walls (hide behind kitchen units).
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The red line running across the top of the picture is the existing cooker cable (6mm) that runs in the ceiling all the way across the room (3.9m) then down the internal corner of the room as shown (the old free standing electric cooker was in that corner). The spark has said best approach would be to fit a junction box under the kitchen units and feed both the over and hob from there (as shown). All cables to be 6mm. The feed to the double oven (built in oven) will run under the kitchen units til just before the edge of the double oven, the cable is then run in a chase up the wall to the oven switch as shown and back out to the oven. The edge of the oven is 1.2m from the corner where the JB is located. The feed to the hob is also under the units til just below the hob switch then as before, a chase up to the hob switch then back down to run under the units to connect to the hob. The hob is 2m from the back wall where the hob switch is located. The hob switch is 2.7m from the internal corner where the old 6mm cooker cable runs.
Couple of specific questions:
1. Is is ok to run cables flapping around under kitchen units?
2. Is it OK to have a JB under the units?
3. Would it be possible to have just one oven&hob swich in the internal corner of the room (cut into the old cooker cable) and do away with the two separate ones? Might then be able to run both feeds between JB and oven/hob without chasing out walls (hide behind kitchen units).
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