2700w oven on plug & socket

[solo2771]

Hi I was at a clients house yesterday fitting a 17th edition board and found his 2700w oven is just plugged into the ring final circuit.
Am I right in believing it should have its own circuit, at the moment it is just the oven thats electric but if an electric cooker was to be fitted it would be well too much for the circuit even taking diversity into account.
Paul

 

[Eggster71]

It's good practice to run an individual cooker supply, I think the building regs ask for it now but ultimately it's the customers' choice.

 

[jimsky007]

Hi

We put all single ovens installed in a kitchen into a 13amp plugtop it's just an appliance like the kettle? and at 2.7kw is only drawing 10amps of the kitchen ring.

However if this oven is changed to a double oven at a laterdate a 6mm radial would be required of course?
as the KW rating goes up to over 7kw

It would make sense to run radials for all appliances but who is going to pay for it??

If there is a CCU present in the kitchen I fit a 13amp socket to the elephants trunk outlet which allows the single oven to be fused correctly and isolated from above worktop.

 

[Spudnik]

Any cooking appliance over 2kW should have its own dedicated circuit to prevent the kitchen RFC from being loaded for a long time.

 

[solo2771]

Any cooking appliance over 2kW should have its own dedicated circuit to prevent the kitchen RFC from being loaded for a long time.

The kitchen RFC lol its the only RFC in the house covers all rooms that is the other thing that makes me think it should be on its own circuit.

 

[ajelec10]

Check the manufactures info, fitted one the other day, it was rated around 2400w the manufacture requested that it be put on a min 15A and max 20A over current protective device, this rules out plug and socket, we down rated the 32A cooker circuit MCB to a 20A

 

[Spudnik]

The kitchen RFC lol its the only RFC in the house covers all rooms that is the other thing that makes me think it should be on its own circuit.

Even more of a reason to install a dedicated circuit.

 

[solo2771]

thanks that what i thought, i will put advisory to have new circuit for cooker (his misssus won't be happy)