Range Cooker Connection Refusal.

I have sat in meetings where it's been debated whether structured cabling should be permitted because it's de-skilling the trade.

If it's so hard to provide a dedicated circuit for a fixed appliance, particularly where there are installation instructions or detailed protection requirements from the manufacturer, I am left considering wondering whether structured cabling is simply a response to a “plug and play” type of approach that some posting here seem to be working towards.

I mean, we're already at the point, for single-phase installations up to 100 A maximum demand, where the majority (perhaps all) common circuit configurations are covered, and there's no need to do any calculation whatsoever. Just select the correct OCPD/cable combination and don't exceed the circuit lengths quoted in Table 7.1(i) of the OSG …

Or am I missing something?

Oh … yes … in this particular case we're discussing from the OP, it's probably not a “Part P competent person" organisation that's doing the job, and because it might need a new circuit protective device, they will need to “call an electrician in”.

But at this point, the customer has already been given a quote for a few (perhaps countable on one hand) brown beer tokens for the “connection” of their shiny new product and isn't best-pleased.

I have sat in meetings where it's been debated whether structured cabling should be permitted because it's de-skilling the trade.

If it's so hard to provide a dedicated circuit for a fixed appliance, particularly where there are installation instructions or detailed protection requirements from the manufacturer, I am left considering wondering whether structured cabling is simply a response to a “plug and play” type of approach that some posting here seem to be working towards.

I mean, we're already at the point, for single-phase installations up to 100 A maximum demand, where the majority (perhaps all) common circuit configurations are covered, and there's no need to do any calculation whatsoever. Just select the correct OCPD/cable combination and don't exceed the circuit lengths quoted in Table 7.1(i) of the OSG …

Or am I missing something?

Oh … yes … in this particular case we're discussing from the OP, it's probably not a “Part P competent person" organisation that's doing the job, and because it might need a new circuit protective device, they will need to “call an electrician in”.

But at this point, the customer has already been given a quote for a few (perhaps countable on one hand) brown beer tokens for the “connection” of their shiny new product and isn't best-pleased.