How to wire in a new electric cooker..?

muckybutt

Unless I am corrected there is no reg that says you cant put sockets behind / above a hob.
However having said that it is good practice not to put sockets or isolation switches behind cookers or hobs for safety reasons and access for the disabled or infirm etc

zax47

I agree with muckybutt, having had a brief search through the "big red regs. book" I can't see any actual regulation specifically about this, although I am sure that if I searched long enough I could find a more general one which covered the potential danger in doing this.

It is very bad practice, certainly you shouldn't put any socket, or the cooker/hob isolation switch, above the cooker/hob as if there is something on there on fire you'd have to reach over the flames to turn it off. What about the flex of whatever was plugged in?

Unsurprisingly, I have seen sockets on the wall above hobs (even gas hobs!!), usually when the socket was there long before the hob and whoever then fitted the hob had no brain, but we see all sorts in this game!

I guess the quick answer is don't do it, if someone you have paid to do it has done it then they are idiots and if you have come across this after buying a property then don't use it.