Tidying up kitchen...

[1973keith]

Evening all,

I'm in the process of updating my kitchen, and I'm trying to tidy a number of sockets and switches that are in place already.
The Oven and Hob are gas, so I'm not incurring large electrical loads from them.

The plan is this;

Install 4 way grid switch in the wall by looping in the kitchen ring and dropping down 4 switched spurs for;

1) the fridge
2) the plinth heater (plumbed in to central heating) so only an electrical fan load.
3) the cooker hood extractor fan
4) hob + oven (as mentioned both gas)

The supplies I have to play with are currently a double socket on the ring, that was previously installed on the inside of a cupboard and is trailing about on 2 lengths of approx 5ft 2.5mm cable, and a spur that currently supplies the existing extractor and the socket the gas cooker is currently plugged into.

Can I bring the spur that currently feeds the cooker socket into the same grid switch box as I'm planning to feed off of the ring to tidy the spur up?
So 3 of the appliances will be powered off of the ring, then the 4th switch from the separate spur supply, or must the spur remain in it's own wall box?

To attempt to be clear, I'm not on about rejoining the spur back to the ring electrically, just sharing the same box.

Cheers!

Keith

 

[telectrix]

not very clear, mate, but as i see it. leave the socket for the hob as is. use the cables in the redundant double socket to feed RFC into grid switch, then feed appliances from there.

 

[1973keith]

flipping 'eck that was quick
thanks telectrix, much appreciated, and sorry if I'm not clear, bit hard to explain without diagrams.

I'm happy to leave the socket on the wall for the cooker it's low down out of sight.
The issue is I'm going to end up with a nice neat 4 gang grid next to a single switch/spur supply.
It would be nice to do away with the separate box but understand if it needs to stay.

thanks again,

Keith