Electrical Question - Double oven needs 30AMP - how do I this?

[HappyDuck]

I am thinking of moving my double oven from one of the end kitchen to the other (oppposite walls). In order for this to happen, I need a 30AMP fitted at the new location. Sorry the terms may no be 100% correct by me but I guess you electricians will understand what I mean. How would a kitchen fitter do this? Because I've just recently had new floor tiles in and so the pipework cannot go through the ground. It also can't go along the wall because I have doors in the way. Kitchen fitter suggested going through ceiling board??? I am confused. Would a kind electrician please tell me how can this job be done. Thanks.

I am not an electrician but do design kitchens and bathrooms etc - I would imagine your fitter is saying that the cooker needs a larger cable to run from your distribution board to the cooker position. If he cant go under the floor, or around the walls then the only real option is to chase it up through the wall into the ceiling void across the room and then down the other side next to your cooker. Not sure if that helps at all!

Bodiddly, thanks for this. Is this likely to be a messy task then or quite an easy one for an electrician? Will floor boards have to be lifted upstairs?

It really depends on the construction of your floor/ceiling. In theory they should be able to run it up through the plasterboard ceiling and into the void between the joists. It may be a little messy and if your floor boards upstairs are exposed it is easier for them to do it that way I would imagine.

Boddidly, I have a concrete floor. Do you know if a cable would be allowed under the floor and then up the walls?

you would need an electrician to fit a thicker than standard cable back to the fuse box. If you already have it at one of the kitchen it may be that can be extended to the new location.

In most houses I think they usually run cable either under wooden floorboards or in the ceiling and drop then down the wall. In that case you would need to life floorboards to get to the right bit.

Sounds like a relatively expensive task. I would get a couple of electricians around for a quote.

lift not life !

The cooker would be up against a wall which would have a gap of some nature in it for the supply to be fed down the wall through removing the upstairs floorboards. Pipework and cables will already be running along your upstairs floor anyway i would imagine.

Having some cables or pipes concreted into the floor is not really a good idea for future access or changes anyway.

Any new lights or sockets or whatever would simply be fed down the gap and one small hole drilled to pull them through.

Some older houses have solid concrete walls though which means a duct holding the cables would have to be placed in the wall and plastered over - this is very intrusive, messy and would need redecorating afterwards.

The supply for a cooker uses a much thicker cable than one for the lights for example.