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OVEN, HOOD AND GAS HOB PLUS IGNITOR

Anonymous user 03/03/2024 - 3.26 PM

My son purchased a property with a gas hob,electric oven with extraction hood and ignition supply to hob. The only supply we have is gas for the hob. There s a double 13 amp socket at the floor nearby the oven/hob unit, my question is can I supply the oven from the back of the dual 13 amp socket? Can I then run a supply from the dual socket to supply both the ignitor and the extraction hood? I was going to run supply for oven from the back of the socket up to a 13 amp fused flex outlet spur unit for the oven and thus keeping the dual socket free for the hood/ignitor. Could I loop the ignitor and hood and have these also on flecible fused spur outlets? There is no 45 amp cooker supply in the kitchen and it would mean floors/carpets pulling up which he does not want. The oven is 2.3kw single oven, the hob is gas with a few milli-amps for ignitor and the hood is a few watts extraction motor!! I would say total load amounts to no more than 2400watts.What is the easiest/best way of supplying these? fused spurs? can they all have their own? is it necessary? whats the best way to do this? Advice appreciated. Overall very conflicting advice, NIC have already wrote back and said this can be done ( loads taken into account) Cookology sell 2.4 kw ovens with plug tops ALREADY on them!!We have had 2 companys to double check, they are site members and both would use the existing ring main!! Does this work need a test certificate if the person doing the job is an NIC member?

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4 Answers

E3 Electrical

Rating: 4.9 out of 5

Winscombe

This is not a question that should be answered on this forum, if you need to ask these questions then perhaps you would benefit from a tradesman looking at it and testing it before giving advice. It would be wrong to advise without knowing all the facts, for about £100 you could get this all sorted and signed off by an electrician. In answer to the test certificate part of the question, all electrical work where a new cable is installed should be tested and certified if no new cable is to be used then it does not need to be certified, it does not need a building control certificate.

Answered4 January 2020

CSM

Rating: 4.9 out of 5

Hassocks

The rules changed and there is no such person as competent and your works Must be completed by a qualified electrician. Whilst diversity can be allowed for there are a number of factors that need to be considered. Remember poor electrics cause fires and can kill.

Answered15 December 2019

A.N.T Electrical

Rating: 5 out of 5

St Albans

You cannot have 2 spurs coming from a socket, you cannot have any spurs if the socket is already spurred from another socket! If the socket is part of the ring main I would extend the ring main to supply 2 more fused spurs feeding both appliances dependant again on loads. But I would not attempt any of this yourself without supervision of a qualified electrician.

Answered26 December 2019

JAB Electrical Solutions

Rating: 5 out of 5

Westbury

The fact you are unsure of what you are doing, shows you should not carry out the work . Ask someone to come and look.

Answered4 January 2020