Good morning!!
My quandry this morning is that I am about to install a hot tub in a lean to conservatory on the back of my house. It's a 13amp plug-in hot tub that uses a standard 3 pin UK plug.
My current fuse board board is an old style board with no RCD's so the plug that ultimately gets fitted for use by the hot tub will have an integral RCD.
The choice I have is to spur/extend off an existing circuit: This circuit is already spurred through a switched fuse unit but has a dish washer and washing machine running off it already and I'm concerned about overloading it with the hot tub and any other load through plugs I choose to put within the lean to.
Or
Where I had an electric oven removed a few years ago, I have an existing circuit with 32amp cable that has been left in place and terminates in a box in the adjoining room. Albeit the initial cable is excessive for what it will be used for, is there any harm in extending that circuit so that all that is running off it are the plug sockets in the extension? If that is viable, should I put a 13a fuse unit ahead of the first socket to negate the fact the main fuse is 30amp?
My quandry this morning is that I am about to install a hot tub in a lean to conservatory on the back of my house. It's a 13amp plug-in hot tub that uses a standard 3 pin UK plug.
My current fuse board board is an old style board with no RCD's so the plug that ultimately gets fitted for use by the hot tub will have an integral RCD.
The choice I have is to spur/extend off an existing circuit: This circuit is already spurred through a switched fuse unit but has a dish washer and washing machine running off it already and I'm concerned about overloading it with the hot tub and any other load through plugs I choose to put within the lean to.
Or
Where I had an electric oven removed a few years ago, I have an existing circuit with 32amp cable that has been left in place and terminates in a box in the adjoining room. Albeit the initial cable is excessive for what it will be used for, is there any harm in extending that circuit so that all that is running off it are the plug sockets in the extension? If that is viable, should I put a 13a fuse unit ahead of the first socket to negate the fact the main fuse is 30amp?