Kitchen Re-Fit Planning

[john&vic]

Dear all,

Apologies for our lack of knowledge, we've researched as much as possible and now need some expert advice. In summary we are planning a complete kitchen refit, the existing kitchen only has a gas AGA for cooking and we'd like to have the option to switch this off during the warmer months by installing alternative electric cooking appliances.

We have a modern fuse box with RCD breakers built in. The wiring to the kitchen consists of a single ring of sockets, on the same ring are some sockets to the bedroom/office above. There is no dedicated 30 AMP cable for an electric oven or a hob and our box only has one spare fuse socket.

In an ideal world we'd get a new fuse box and proper cabling run through the house for a double oven and proper hob but as these won't be our primary appliances all year round we are considering a 13 AMP single oven that draws 3.0kw and a 13 AMP two ring hob that also draws 3.0kw; most manufacturers I've looked at make these types of appliances (SMEG, Miele, Neff etc).

So I guess the first question is will it be safe to run a two 13 AMP applicances that draw 3.0KW each off the same socket ring that exists for our kitchen and spare bedroom?

Many thanks for your time.

Kind regards

John & Victoria

p.s. we will be employing a fully qual. electician along with plumber and builder, just need some help prior to ordering the kitchen and appliances

 

[Sintra]

Personally i would install a dedicated circuit for your electrical cooking appliances as these could potentially draw approx 26A. This doesn't leave alot on your existing ring circuit.

 

[Spudnik]

Hi and welcome.

All cooking appliances rated at 2kW and above should now have their own dedicated circuit from your consumer unit via either a 16 or 20A MCB. This prevents the ring circuit from being loaded for any length of time.

Your best bet would be to enlist the services of a competent electrician who would advise you accordingly.

 

[john&vic]

Many thanks for the replies!

So in short two x 13 amp appliances is not going to be a short cut to achieving an electrical cooking setup with our current wiring on the socket ring. From what has been said it sounds like we will need separate dedicated supplies from our fuse box no matter what appliances we go for, and therefore we may as well go for a double oven and full sized hob with the approrpiate wiring.

As our exisitng fuse box only has one spare this presents us with a further problem. However there is one fuse that supplies power to two strip lights in the garage, maybe this could be re-wired into a different lightly circuit (we seem to have three others) to make space for the additional 30 amp to the kitchen?

We will definately enlist the services of a qualified electrican but before we get that far we must decide on the kitchen layout first and the only constraint is understanding what is and isn't possible from an electrical aspect without wasting an electricans valuable time.

Kind regards

John and Victoria