How would you code this?

yellowvanman · Aug 17, 2015

Plug supplies the gas ignition.
Cooker switch supplies oven on a 1.5mm flex.
All on a 30A BS3036 fuse

Both flexes are routed behind the tiles.

The cable is not damaged or brittle and the faceplate is not charred through previous cable damage (I think).

As it'll be me trying to rectify this my categorisation (if any) may be a bit more lenient than others.

Octopus · Aug 17, 2015

Like the creative thinking by the person who did that!

Is the 13A supply to the oven fused down?

As for a code C3 maybe!

yellowvanman · Aug 17, 2015

Murdoch said:
Is the 13A supply to the oven fused down?

No .....

Octopus · Aug 17, 2015

yellowvanman said:
No .....

Could be a C2 then!

ruston · Aug 17, 2015

Time you get a pan of boiling water on that back ring; It's a real gem.

yellowvanman · Aug 17, 2015

Murdoch said:
Could be a C2 then!

Could fuse down at the CU - but it looks like it'll be a CU change needed anyway!

My main concern is physical location - ie above the hob!

Richard Burns · Aug 17, 2015

There are hundreds of cooker switches above hobs and very few problems with them as demonstrated by your situation where there is no sign of damage.
I would probably code as C3 and recommend the switch be moved or at least replaced with a non socket outlet switch and feed the ignition from elsewhere, perhaps that double socket that is too close to the hob on the left! At least it would stop someone plugging anything else in so close to the hob.
If the flex to the oven is manufacturer supplied then that it up to them.

yellowvanman · Aug 17, 2015

Richard Burns said:
There are hundreds of cooker switches above hobs and very few problems with them as demonstrated by your situation where there is no sign of damage.
I would probably code as C3 and recommend the switch be moved or at least replaced with a non socket outlet switch and feed the ignition from elsewhere, perhaps that double socket that is too close to the hob on the left! At least it would stop someone plugging anything else in so close to the hob.
If the flex to the oven is manufacturer supplied then that it up to them.

Trouble is how to you change the faceplate on that old type of crabtree cooker switch?