Hi guys
I was doing a kitchen recently and behind the cooker hood I had ran 2.5mm from a FCU, the hood can with 1.5mm flex. I had put a plug top with a 3amp fuse onto the flex and then a single socket for the 2.5. That way you just plug it in.
The kitchen fitter got all assy and said that his normal electrician normally just shoves a junction box up there and it looked stupid having a socket and kept asking why I did it.
I said my reasoning being that a junction box on a new install is RAF and that I couldn't just downgrade the cable size without fusing it down.
I've never been shown a reg saying about the cable size, is this just a preference thing or is it actually what should be done??
I was doing a kitchen recently and behind the cooker hood I had ran 2.5mm from a FCU, the hood can with 1.5mm flex. I had put a plug top with a 3amp fuse onto the flex and then a single socket for the 2.5. That way you just plug it in.
The kitchen fitter got all assy and said that his normal electrician normally just shoves a junction box up there and it looked stupid having a socket and kept asking why I did it.
I said my reasoning being that a junction box on a new install is RAF and that I couldn't just downgrade the cable size without fusing it down.
I've never been shown a reg saying about the cable size, is this just a preference thing or is it actually what should be done??
