Electrical question

[steveo]

Can you wire an electric cooker via a junction box or does the wire have to go directly form the cooker into the wall socket?

 

[MK Shrimper]

Needs to be on its own circuit from the dis board.

This link should help.

http://www.diynot.com/pages/el/el027.php

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

As a general rule an electric cooker will require its own radial circuit. This means it requires a direct connection to the consumer unit with its own fuse way there. Electric cookers use a vast amount of power so must not be connected to a normal household circuit.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Yeah thanks for quoting directly from the website I gave a link to.....:whistling:

 

[steveo]

Sorry, didnt make myself clear.

We have exisitng elec cooker hardwired into the wall socket.

I am fitting a new cooker which isnt here yet. Have moved the electic socket on the wall and rather than wire the new cooker straight into the socket, i want to leave a trailing wire from the socket, fit a junction box and when the new cooker comes, just connect it to the junction box.

All so I dont have to have the socket off the wall again really.

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Sorry, didnt make myself clear.

We have exisitng elec cooker hardwired into the wall socket.

I am fitting a new cooker which isnt here yet. Have moved the electic socket on the wall and rather than wire the new cooker straight into the socket, i want to leave a trailing wire from the socket, fit a junction box and when the new cooker comes, just connect it to the junction box.

All so I dont have to have the socket off the wall again really.

We did the same thing recently and used the existing wiring on the recommendation of a sparky.

Always worth seeking the advice of a qualified electrician though mate

 

[A Century United]

I wouldn't recommend it, with a 30 amp circuit you don't want any more connections/breaks than you have to, and I personally wouldn't feel comfortable with a junction box floating around behind my cooker - much better to have unbroken wire all the way to the wall plate.

 

[Cricko]

Arghhh NOOOO! ..in a lot of cases junction boxes are now Illegal in any wiring installation, You must always go directly into a 30 amp cooker point with a cooker.

Some built in Fan ovens now can run off a standard 13 amp plug but even in those cases I would not recommend it.

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Just to clarify, we did not use a junction box, we simply used the existing wiring that was used on the old cooker which goes directly in to to the wall.

 

[Southminster_Shrimper]

I do all my cooking from my George Foreman grill as is clearly evident from my toned physique. And these ofcourse run quite happily from a 13amp wall socket and are easily installed by simply removing them from the box.

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

I take it that you are hiding it up your top in this pic!!!!

:D