Oven Plug

[Bright.Spark]

Ive just taken over a nightmare job where a spark has walked off site. Its a kitchen but the electrician forgot the plug for the oven. The hob is gas but the oven needs pluging in. The problem is the kitchen has been fitted and the tiling has been done. Now there is a socket just to the right of the hob but the plug is too short plus it would mean cutting the counter and passing the plug through. There is however a socket in a cupboard in the next room can I drill through the wall behind the cuboards and use the socket in the other room and just label it up as oven?

 

[sythai]

I take it the ovens rated at less than 2.5 Kw...?

 

[Bright.Spark]

yea its only a small oven.

 

[sythai]

could have been worse then..... :rolleyes4:

 

[SimpleSimon]

This plug in the other room, is it used alot? Obvious? My own concern would be no local isolation because you'd have to go to the next room to isolate.

 

[Ponty Massive]

Is the socket in the other room on the same circuit as the sockets in the kitchen?

 

[sythai]

Cant you spur off socket in the other room... if isnt spurred already and bring the a supply into one of the units near to the oven - FCU in there, extending oven flex if need be ?

 

[nickblake]

thing i'd do what synthai suggests FCU 2.5 to a Connection plate mounted next to the oven lable the FCU Oven

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Just install a socket back to back with the one in the other room, and plug the oven in.
No need for an FCU.

 

[D Skelton]

This plug in the other room, is it used alot? Obvious? My own concern would be no local isolation because you'd have to go to the next room to isolate.

No such requirement for local isolation. It does need to have a means of switching off and I'm guessing that the oven would include an integral function for switching off.

 

[nickblake]

Just install a socket back to back with the one in the other room, and plug the oven in.
No need for an FCU.

If the circuit you are adding the socket to is already a spur then you will need an FCU ,as synthai has pointed out

 

[Deleted member 26818]

If the circuit you are adding the socket to is already a spur then you will need an FCU ,as synthai has pointed out

No not really.
If the socket-outlet in the other room is an unfused spur, then an FCU would be required upstream to make the spur fused.
The oven could still be on a plug.

 

[Darkone]

I thought ovens/cookers had to have Isolation switches above the worktop, or is this open to interpretation?

 

[daiplayer]

Cant you spur off socket in the other room... if isnt spurred already and bring the a supply into one of the units near to the oven - FCU in there, extending oven flex if need be ?

Agreed

 

[Octopus]

I thought ovens/cookers had to have Isolation switches above the worktop, or is this open to interpretation?

The rule is "accessible" and that in my eyes means visible!