sockets from old cooker point

[burgensteen]

Hi, I have a 32amp breaker in the distribution board and a 6mm cable running to an old cooker point (with single socket). Im wanting to change cooker point to a fused spur then cable to cooker hood. Another cable fed down to 2 double sockets and another spur for hob ingniter (or just 2 double sockts and a single). The old cooker point would be replaced with a fused spur). Can this be done.
I have spoken to 2 electricians one of which has it is okay and he is happy to do and sign off and the other says no its too much load on the radial circuit!
I could just let the electricain that is happy do the work but want to make sure it is safe and compliant.

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Any advice is very much appreciated. Thank you

 

[pete01]

Use 4mm to the sockets then it'll be ok, rcd protection needed also.

 

[burgensteen]

RCD in the consumer unit? and if I use 4mm does that mean I dont need a fused spur at the old cooker point just a junction box?

 

[pete01]

Sorry didn't see that, no you won't need it..

Either keep the cooker switch or have another socket but you might want to take the cooker hood from the sockets as it might be tight.

 

[Murdochcat]

I think you need a competent spark who knows what they are doing.

 

[ebee]

well an "old chestnut" is the lasso circuit.
Originally a 30/32A circuit usually running on 6.0 T& E (might be 4.0 if on an MCB rather than the old rewireble fuse type though) anyway someone decided they didn`t need an electric cooker point so used it to create a ring final or a radial from a convenient place in the kitchen rather than all the way back to the consumer unit as a new circuit.
So creating that local ring final and with or without spurs applying the usual rules of one 2.5 T & E running one unfused spur , a fused spur could have any number.
So using it as a radial to supply a number of radials in 2.5 T & E on a similar one to one basis from the 6.0 (or 4.0),
no more onerous than the traditional ring or radial, same thing in practice really.
But you would never be able to use an electric cooker with it if you changed your mind.
Obviously the name lasso comes from the appearance of a simple diagram of a long line with a loop on the end buy some might think it denotes a cowboy doing a circuit.
In my whole working life I have only ever done one such conversion for a lady of very limited means and similar mental capacity as a get out for needing a few more sockets in a kitchen, surface run trunking and back boxes. I even used it as one of my jobs to show the inspector in my annual assessment for membership of a competent person scheme - a little trick I am guilty of is presenting others qualified to have a look at something a bit "non-standard" to see how the thinking goes, it`s surprising how many electricians initially react to something a bit non standard (I must admit I have done so myself when viewing something a bit out of the ordinary I think "Hmm" then think a bit more before deciding myself) Actually this chap did not bite at all and he passed it without any qualms or questions