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ok when you turn off the cooker MCB it turns off the cooker and the socket above it - Strange ??
 
no. it's good. that means it's 99% that the socket above was once a cooker isolator and you could just convert it back with a cooker switch with socket incorporated. with it isolated, undo the socket ( above worktop ), lift it forward, without disturbing the connections and see if it's 6mm cable ( about 4-5mm dia. inc insulation.). if 6mm then it should be a 32A MCB. if smaller cable ( 2.5mm) it would need the MCB downrating to 20A.
 
ok just managed to safely get back into my kitchen after having gas fitters in there for the past day, ive undone the socket and the wires are thicker than those you find on a standard plug plus they are red, black and the earth, whereas arent they normally blue and brown. So im pressuming that what your saying is that the plug underneath the worktop is wired directly to this one above it, and therefore by replacing this plug socket with a cooker switch it will give me my isolater ??? If this is right do I then still have a problem with the position of the socket above the worktop, it is 20 cm directly above the control side of the hob but not the actual rings to move this would be a right pain. ???
 

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