Yet another oven question (sorry!)

[Vicario]

I'm an occasional amateur reader and poster here, but there seems to be a lot about hobs and ovens, so here's something that I've been wondering about since 1994!
Summer 1994. Nice new gas hob and electric oven installed. The hob has electric ignition and the oven has a 13amp plug. The kitchen fitters plugged both into a double socket that they had wired inside an adjacent kitchen unit (very thin wooden sides). The Owl says that it draws about 12/13Amps when at full blast.
Questions - should I have had some certification for this?
Is it safe?
Absolutely no problems, by the way, and nothing has got overheated. This is all on the downstairs ring main.
It's just that I know you chaps love oven questions!

 

[Taylortwocities]

All electrical work has always needed to be certified by whoever did the work. The cert confirms that the work complied with whatever wiring standard the work was done to.

Since 1995 electrical work in a kifvhen (and other places) had to be notified to the local authority. Way after yours was installed...

UK sockets (double and single) are rated as 13A TOTAL. You'll probably be OK re overloading - I cant say about the quality of the work, not from here anyways!

 

[Steve]

Since 1995 electrical work in a kifvhen (and other places) had to be notified to the local authority. Way after yours was installed...

1995?

 

[ColJack]

All electrical work has always needed to be certified by whoever did the work. The cert confirms that the work complied with whatever wiring standard the work was done to.

does this incluse plugging something in? or even wiring a plug onto something with a pre attetched flex?

Since 1995 electrical work in a kifvhen (and other places) had to be notified to the local authority. Way after yours was installed...

what's a kifvhen? and are you sure you mean 1995?

UK sockets (double and single) are rated as 13A TOTAL. You'll probably be OK re overloading - I cant say about the quality of the work, not from here anyways!

I've been asured that this is a falasy, and MK's spec sheets clearly state that their standard sockets are 13A each outlet, so 26A for a double ( this does not include their non standard sockets such as RCD protected ones.. only those to BS standards..)
also people have stated that the BS standard for sockets ( 1363-4 :1995 I think? ) does not stipulate a minimum amperage for sockets.. just a temperature rise thing... ( and I'm not spending £600 just to buy a copy to confirm this.. )

 

[Taylortwocities]

I must not do stuff before i have eaten. To clarify:

All electrical work has always needed to be certified by whoever did the work. The cert confirms that the work complied with whatever wiring standard the work was done to.


does this incluse plugging something in? or even wiring a plug onto something with a pre attetched flex?

This applies to fixed wiring. Not putting a plug on, as you well know. Mind you, I have never, ever, seen a kitchen fitter produce any piece of paper other than an invoice.
Whats an incluse? Is it an old tramp that stays indoors??

Since 1995 electrical work in a kifvhen (and other places) had to be notified to the local authority. Way after yours was installed...

what's a kifvhen? and are you sure you mean 1995??

Listen mate, like you, I'm not a stuffin Pitman touch typist, I am a sparky. Anyway, round here, we do all of our food preparation in the kifvhen.

You are right about the date though. Should have been 1st January 2005 - Like Jethro Tull, I am living in the past

UK sockets (double and single) are rated as 13A TOTAL. You'll probably be OK re overloading - I cant say about the quality of the work, not from here anyways!

I've been asured that this is a falasy, and MK's spec sheets clearly state that their standard sockets are 13A each outlet, so 26A for a double ( this does not include their non standard sockets such as RCD protected ones.. only those to BS standards..)
also people have stated that the BS standard for sockets ( 1363-4 :1995 I think? ) does not stipulate a minimum amperage for sockets.. just a temperature rise thing... ( and I'm not spending £600 just to buy a copy to confirm this.. )

You may well be right - I'll look on the back of the next Volex socket I find and check. And remember to wash my hands afterwards.