Hello,
I've got a gas hob above an insert oven, but have decided to get rid of the gas hob because we're moving and we're going to rent the place out. The hob is in bad visual condition with knobs attached only thanks to Araldite, and we have to start paying extra money because of the rules for gas safety (maintenance etc.) so I thought I'd just go electric.
The insert oven is on its own cooker circuit, 40A, while the gas hob only is wired into a ring circuit (not the same as the cooker, obviously because the ignition doesn't need much power). There's the usual 13A socket on the cooker circuit switch. Nothing else is on the cooker circuit.
So my question: the existing oven is rated 2.3kW, while the cooker circuit is rated 40A. Using 240V as the calculation a 40A circuit should cope with 9.6kW, is that not correct?
So that leaves me with 7.3kW for the electric hob and other appliances plugged into the socket, as I presume the logical thing is to keep the oven and hob on the same cooker circuit.
Looking at the Whirlpool appliances for example they are rated around 6kW.
So that leaves me with +/- 1.3kW in excess on the cooker circuit. Of course it's unlikely that I (i.e. my tenants) will run four ceramic rings and the oven at full all at once, while still trying to boil a kettle of tea plugged into the 13A socked on the cooker circuit, however I'm wondering if this still is within the normal limits. The kettle that's there at the moment is 2.8kW...
So to stay safe: do I provide my tenants with an annoying