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Two high-power appliances on a single 40A RCD
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I have an electric shower installed on a 40A RCD, in a room adjacent to my kitchen. The shower is only used in an emergency - i.e. when our gas boiler is unable to provide hot water to our main bathroom. I would like to take a spur from this 40A connection to use for a new double oven, which is rated at 32A. Can anyone advise on a safe and legal way to do this, ensuring that only one of the two appliances can be connected at any one time?
A bit of imagination usually allows doing so to be relatively straightforward, I installed a new cooker circuit a couple of weeks ago running externally down the side of a house, then in and along underneath the kitchen cabinets in steel wire armoured cable to an isolator then flex to the freestanding cooker. There are no marks or anything to see inside the house.
Whipping carpets and floors up to pull cables in is daily work, unless you have covered the upper floors in laminate flooring or tiles it is generally straightforward, though currently I am being paid to drive all over England and Wales to do it, but that’s more of a matter of getting someone in the right place at the right time than because it is complex work.
In amongst all discussion this no one has asked it there is an existing electric cooker circuit in the kitchen that could be utilised.
A bit of imagination usually allows doing so to be relatively straightforward, I installed a new cooker circuit a couple of weeks ago running externally down the side of a house, then in and along underneath the kitchen cabinets in steel wire armoured cable to an isolator then flex to the freestanding cooker. There are no marks or anything to see inside the house.
Whipping carpets and floors up to pull cables in is daily work, unless you have covered the upper floors in laminate flooring or tiles it is generally straightforward, though currently I am being paid to drive all over England and Wales to do it, but that’s more of a matter of getting someone in the right place at the right time than because it is complex work.
In amongst all discussion this no one has asked it there is an existing electric cooker circuit in the kitchen that could be utilised.
