Cooker supply

[EFLImpudence]

May be there is a reason why in Wales your not allowed to DIY that work?

Yes.

England was very silly to alter the requirements, especially as doing so all but negated the reason for them in the first place - i.e. controlling DIY and ancillary trades.

 

[an203888]

Better....

IMG_20200814_123406

• an203888
• 14 Aug 2020

 

[Taylortwocities]

Better....

Better, safer, compliant. Do you now who actually installed the plastic terminal block on the meter tails?

 

[an203888]

Better, safer, compliant. Do you now who actually installed the plastic terminal block on the meter tails?

No idea. Only moved in a year ago. The meter guy said it was because the wire sizes had been upgraded or somthing.

 

[an203888]

Sorry to bring this up again but wanted to check the wiring configuration. I was going to run the 10mm2 cable into one 50A cooker switch then have two seperate cables come out... One to go to a double wall outlet for both single ovens and one to got to a wall outlet for the hob.

However, the hob is 32A and ovens are 13A each so a total of 58A. Do presumably I can't run them both through the one switch?

If I can't, I presume I could have two switches (linked with some 10mm2)...one for ovens and one for hob...?

Thanks

 

[EFLImpudence]

I was going to run the 10mm2 cable into one 50A cooker switch then have two seperate cables come out... One to go to a double wall outlet for both single ovens and one to got to a wall outlet for the hob.

You do not need 10mm².
6mm² from a 32A MCB is adequate for any domestic cooking appliances you will have.

However, the hob is 32A and ovens are 13A each so a total of 58A.

It doesn't work like that for cooking appliances because they won't all be drawing power at the same time even when/if all are switched on.
"Diversity" is used - 48 x 0.3 + 10 = 24.4A is all you need.

So presumably I can't run them both through the one switch?

Yes you can.