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Cooker and shower on the same circuit

Dasa

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

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    Hello everyone,

    Thank you all for your many interesting replies. I never imagined that my question would start off such a debate!

    I am an electrician’s mate with eight year’s site experience, and I am hoping to sit my AM2 later this year.

    I am currently working at a new hospital unit. Late last year, our supervisor and a couple of other electrician’s mates were having a chat about training and qualifying, and at one point, when discussing various kinds of electrical work, our supervisor, who is qualified and experienced and in charge of the other electricians and mates on the site, said that a cooker and shower could go on the same circuit; I did reply by asking if that would be against the Regs, and I think his response was that it wasn’t as long as sufficient sized cable was used.

    I am not yet an electrician, so I wasn’t going to dispute what he said, but when I do eventually qualify, it is not something I would EVER do, I would always install two high wattage devices on their own circuits.

    I was just interested in hearing the opinions of other IET members.

    Thank you,

    Dasa

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    Hello everyone,

    Thank you all for your many interesting replies. I never imagined that my question would start off such a debate!

    I am an electrician’s mate with eight year’s site experience, and I am hoping to sit my AM2 later this year.

    I am currently working at a new hospital unit. Late last year, our supervisor and a couple of other electrician’s mates were having a chat about training and qualifying, and at one point, when discussing various kinds of electrical work, our supervisor, who is qualified and experienced and in charge of the other electricians and mates on the site, said that a cooker and shower could go on the same circuit; I did reply by asking if that would be against the Regs, and I think his response was that it wasn’t as long as sufficient sized cable was used.

    I am not yet an electrician, so I wasn’t going to dispute what he said, but when I do eventually qualify, it is not something I would EVER do, I would always install two high wattage devices on their own circuits.

    I was just interested in hearing the opinions of other IET members.

    Thank you,

    Dasa

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    It is always good to enquire Dasa. Good luck to you in your progress as an electrician.

    Z.

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