a cooker and hood question

[dazsmith]

hi guys need some advice!
im rewiring a kitchen and the current cooker postition is being relocated to other side of kitchen. new cooker going in is a gas cooker so just putting this on the kitching ring. will also relocate cooker circuit 10mm t+e to cooker point for future use just incase as its a council house! there is a hood going in for the cooker! so i was wondering,in regards to the cooker,for best practice, does there have to be an isolator for the cooker ie fuse spur at work top? also, power for the hood will also be on kitchen ring, is it best to feed from switched fuse spur/switch with outlet behind hood!

advice please!!!

 

[telectrix]

cooker point above worktop is 45A D/P switch unfused. min. 300mm from hob. hood fed off ring via FCU high level, alongside flue.

 

[dazsmith]

so i would still need the 45a d/p switch unfused just to feed the gas cooker? thought all it is ffeding is the ignitor and clock? as for the hood, locate fcu in place where accesible to isolate?this would be feeding maybe outlet/socket behind hood(alongside flue)?
thanks!

 

[telectrix]

misunderstood. you need 45A sw. on end of 10mm. For gas cooker, 13A socket below worktop for ignition. FCU for hood (hard wired) or 13A socket. either will do

 

[dazsmith]

thanks! so would it be best to feed cooker socket via switched spur on work top for isolation? same for hood?

 

[telectrix]

no. your gas cooker only needs ignition supply this can be just a 13A socket. no need for fused spur. plug and socket is a means of isolation. you have the choice. 13Asocket OR fused spur. either one or the other, not both. same applies to the hood. The 10mm you intend to install for possible future use is a completely separate circuit. I would use 6mm, as that is sufficient for most electric cookers. Bear in mind that to comply with regs, you are only allowed one unfused spur with 1 outlet from a point on the ring, so make sure that the first outlet you take from the ring is " ringed" and spur off for the 2nd point.

 

[dazsmith]

i was under the impression from reading a few things that u would need a point of isolation for hood as connection would be behind hood, and hood would have to be taken apart to isolate?

 

[telectrix]

i usually fit FCU alongside hood and hard wire hood flex,channeled in plaster behind edge of flue. don't like point behind flue. then you have accessible isolation point