Kitchen Rewire - What would you do?

[Liamsparks]

Its only something small but I think it'd make a good discussion where the same situation is on any installation. (Redundant Circuits)

With new modern kitchens most people are coming away from your double standing oven needing the typical 40A Supply and having the single oven in a tower unit which comes with a 13A plugtop.


Are you the type of person who would advise keeping the old 40A isolator and making the relative cable safely isolated for future use or would you take it out and just have the FS and socket combo to reduce the amount of switches above the worktop?


I get torn between the two because I don't like ripping out supply's when they could be possibly be used for the future so I normally ask the customer and give them both options.

Looking forward to hearing your replies

Cheers Liam

 

[malcolmsanford]

I'd be for keeping it. Who knows what the fad will be in 5 years.

 

[Guest 004]

I'd be for keeping it. Who knows what the fad will be in 5 years.

I will echo that

 

[bugsy]

I'd keep it , if there is a cooker outllet plate i'd convert to DSSO for ovens and change MCB

 

[Guest 004]

depends whether its horizontal or vertical

 

[bugsy]

I was refering to the outlet plate not the the control unit

 

[Guest 004]

oh ok then

 

[Liamsparks]

I'd keep it , if there is a cooker outllet plate i'd convert to DSSO for ovens and change MCB

That connection plate on most cases would then be covered by a unit, i can understand what your saying if your meaning the single cooker to go in the same space in a housing.

 

[baldelectrician]

I would keep the circuit. Possibly move the cooker switch and have it switch the socket behind the oven

 

[Dunc]

Keep the existing cooker supply and convert it to suit new purpose (eg fit a FCU in place of the old control unit). Anything that limits the load on a kitchen ringmain is a good thing in my book.

 

[nickblake]

keep it and use it to supply the tower oven some of these ovens are quite high loads 4.5 kw so they require there own circuit any way