gas hob cooking appliance?

[roymooney]

I'm replacing my electric freestanding cooker with an single electric oven and a separate gas hob. The IEE wiring regs say that a standard cooker circuit may supply two cooking appliances where these are installed in one room. From other comments on these pages, it's clear that for a separate electric hob and electric oven, both appliances can be wired into the same cooker circuit. But is a gas hob a cooking appliance? It would be convenient to be able to connect it to the oven terminal, so that the cooker control unit isolates both items (and would the hob have to be connected with 6mm cable like the rest of the circuit: possibly overkill for a sparking mechanism). Is this acceptable, or is it necessary to wire the gas hob to a separate fused connection unit on the ring circuit? Any advice would be appreciated!

 

[Hamiltonandy]

IEE normally concerned with overloading supply cable. In your case the electric cooker takes most of the demand. I would put a switched fused connection unit next to cooker switch so you could use common supply cable.

 

[AnonymousImport]

Thanks for that, it makes sense. I now have the installation guide for the hob, which says that in the case of a permanent connection, it is necessary to install a double throw switch between the hob and supply - the cooker control switch will achieve this. So I'll do as you suggest and run 2.5 mm cable sidweways from the cooker switch to an FCU, from the FCU down to a flex outlet, from there to the hob. Thanks for the good advice.