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Cooker and shower on the same circuit

Hello everyone,

A few months back, a qualified electrician told me that a cooker and a shower can both be put on the same circuit; that doesn't sound right, surely loads using such a large amount of power must be on their own individual circuits?

I haven't been able to ask a question about this until now because I had difficulty logging into my IET account and had to get a new username and password for it.

Thank you,

Dasa

Parents
  • The standard of the installation work is what I would generally from someone who would dog a shower circuit into a cooker circuit or vice versa.

    As you probably guessed I went for option 3 and separated the circuits, extending the shower circuit using a 63 amp junction box to make a secure connection to a new cable running back to a new B40 RCBO, along with general tidying up.

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  • The standard of the installation work is what I would generally from someone who would dog a shower circuit into a cooker circuit or vice versa.

    As you probably guessed I went for option 3 and separated the circuits, extending the shower circuit using a 63 amp junction box to make a secure connection to a new cable running back to a new B40 RCBO, along with general tidying up.

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  • Yes, I know that’s a tight bending radius, it’s hard to do everything as you would like to.