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The cable won't be going behind the oven once I've extended the chase behind/below the worktop, it'll go straight down to the socket/spur from which it takes it's power.
hmm, this reads as if the two sockets and fused outlet above the worktop are extended, either by plug or connector, from an existing circuit (ring/radial) below. Yet there are clearly two cables going into the l/h socket in the picture, inferring a ring circuit. And you say an 'electrician' installed this...
ref. boiler cable - replace with longer length of t&e that is installed as per that pdf above, makes for a much better job, and you're chasing the wall out anyway for a re-plaster..
i'm not going to be asking an electrician anything (i do enough of that in the day job), but i will pass comment when forumgers post up pics of poor installations, because i don't want to read in a few years time that they burnt their kitchen out, or worse.
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The electrician who replaced the consumer unit specified the cable, and ty-wrapped the cables together.
The cable won't be going behind the oven once I've extended the chase behind/below the worktop, it'll go straight down to the socket/spur from which it takes it's power.
We had a look at the boiler cable, and it's a bugger - I'd have chased it into the wall if it could have been done in a straight line, but it can't - hence why it's a surface cable, which will be clipped up neatly once the tiles are on the wall.
Loading factors - you'd have to ask the electrician.