is this acceptable

[lofty84]

Ive followed 2 previous electricians into a property, they have had to cover me whilst my passes are sorted out and so I am doing what they were doing for the time being.

What I am concerned about is this. Theres a kitched ring and on the last double socket of that circuit is another piece of cable which is either 1mm or 1.5mm sq which runs up to where an expeeair extracto fan is going to be fitted. I could have just wired it uptoday but I wasnt sure if you could do that. Im sure ive read on here that this is not a good idea but Im probably wrong. either way I just wanted to check and seeing as this place is full of electricians I thought it was a good palce to ask such a thing.

 

[Geordie Spark]

To be fair guys the short course spark has always beenwith us, when I came out of my time there was horror at the introduction of a two year course. Then came the government's skillcentres which would take someone in and turn them into a "tradesman" in six months. They were known as "diluteys" then not 5WWs.
Furthermore, I remember when I was about 14 my mother got this split level cooker which needed a housing for the oven which had an igniter. The joiner that she got tried to wire a socket from a nearby light switch so the devaluation of our trade was going on then.
Nothing new under the sun.

That made me smile at the memory of me as a very green 1st year apprentice.

There I was aged 15 working at a Precision Engineering company. The boss decided to take-on a bloke who had learned to be a Turner at a Government Skill Centre. I think at the time, employers were paid to take these "diluteys" on but I'm not sure about that.

Anyway, he hadn't been with us long, and we were all sitting having our dinner one day and he was telling us that his real job was a Tug Boat Skipper but he had been made redundant and so had retrained to be a Turner. He told us that the tug boats that he skippered were ocean going tugs and he had worked all over the world and had "had women of every nationality except an Eskimo" and it was his "life's ambition to have one."

I very naively asked: "What's so special about an Eskimo woman?" to which he replied: "That, laddie, is what I want to find out!!"

He didn't stay with us very long .... it seems that the Training Course just didn't teach him enough to be able to operate a lathe to the standards that we needed.

 

[eganelectrical]

Yeh wire it up mate. Don't test it, it's not necessary.

With that size cable you could actually suck on it too just to see if its gonna work!

Hehe lol

 

[eganelectrical]

Hold on, are we talking about an extractor fan or cooker hood?

Extractor fans can be installed on 1.5mm cable as long as it is protected by a fused spur (or for the first time me hearing FCU?) Cooker hoods would have to be on 2.5mm cable.

Am i right?
Apologies, but all these posts are just throwing me off balance here lol!


Edit: I appreciated Design currents etc.. would have to be calculated first in an ideal world.

Why a 2.5 to a hood??

 

[Rich306]

Why a 2.5 to a hood??

It's just something that i've always done with the sparky i'm with, incorporate it into the ring and plug the hood in, or just have it secured into a flex outlet.
Depending on the power requirements i guess 1.5mm would do. Just better to have something bigger there just in case you want a more powerful one surely?

 

[LlandrilloSpark]

Hell of a cooker hood if your thinking 13A 1.5mm ain't enough!

 

[markythesparky]

Yeh that's more than likely to suck the cooker up with the steam!

 

[telectrix]

one way to get rid of her indoors's cooking.