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Electrical

Installation of electric cooker, gas hob and cooker hood.

Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 4.03 PM

Hiya, I stupidly got a full house rewire with no real plan for the kitchen reno. I'm now having to think about the amount of outlets I've been left with. I have one cooker isolating switch unit with a 6mm cable. Beside this I have one dble socket. That's it.The more I look into this, I think I need another spur as the gas hob will need electricity to ignite, the electric oven will need to use the cable and I have no way of powering the cooker hood. My question is, what will the one cooker socket actually facilitate. Any and all advice welcome. Cheers

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4 Answers

Foxx Electrical

Rating: 5 out of 5
Hyde
Hi there, The gas hob can come off the same supply as the cooker as the ignition on the hob has an insignificant load and is only used intermittently. As for the extract hood this would ideally require a fused connection unit at high level local to the hood to allow for the hood to be connected, this can come off the ring final circuit serving the kitchen.
Answered16 February 2022
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Alpha electrics

Rating: 5 out of 5
Craigavon
The gas hob load is minor so can come from the cooker supply and possibly easiest place to take load for extractor fan be off your lighting supply, however you need a spur unit close to extractor fan for an isolation point for your fan. Fuse down your spur unit to a 3 amp fuse.
Answered27 February 2022
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Gold Electrical and Security

Rating: 5 out of 5
Blackwood
The gas hob would need to be fused down, I suggest taking power from the kitchen ring socket via a fused connection unit and feeding two single sockets one at low level for gas ignition and one at high level for extractor fan. The 32A cooker circuit can be looked at and if need be ammended as some ovens are lower than 3KW and run from 13A plug. Would be far better for a site visit to comfirm all.
Answered16 February 2022
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Anonymous user

The gas hob can't come directly from 5he cooker circuit it will need to be on a plug with a 5 amp fuse or a 13 amp fused spur with a 5 amp fuse in place of the 13 amp, as for the sockets, in bs7671 it tells you a minimum amount of sockets per room off the top of my head I believe it is 4 double sockets.
Answered18 February 2022
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