Hello all
Advice required before I speak to an electrician. My oven is knackered so I am replacing it. It is a 13A type, but I am replacing with a 16A rated one that needs a dedicated circuit. We're going to be redoing the kitchen soon, but for the next few months until then I'd rather not have to chop up the tiles and concrete floor which we'd need to do for any new circuits.
When they put the kitchen in they fitted a radial circuit for the fridge, 2.5mm cable with a 16A MCB on the non-RCD side of the consumer unit (to avoid defrosting the freezer due to a trip). I assume it is possible to just plug the fridge into a normal 13A socket, then fit a cooker outlet to the old fridge circuit instead and wire the cooker into that?
thanks
Advice required before I speak to an electrician. My oven is knackered so I am replacing it. It is a 13A type, but I am replacing with a 16A rated one that needs a dedicated circuit. We're going to be redoing the kitchen soon, but for the next few months until then I'd rather not have to chop up the tiles and concrete floor which we'd need to do for any new circuits.
When they put the kitchen in they fitted a radial circuit for the fridge, 2.5mm cable with a 16A MCB on the non-RCD side of the consumer unit (to avoid defrosting the freezer due to a trip). I assume it is possible to just plug the fridge into a normal 13A socket, then fit a cooker outlet to the old fridge circuit instead and wire the cooker into that?
thanks
