Changing Electric Cooker : Wiring

glicky

I hope you can help me.

I want to replace my old electric cooker with a new one and am just wondering if I will need an electrician to change it over for me. They charge at least £50 to do this and Argos (whom I'm buying the cooker from charge £80 to install it). :eek:

I notice that there is a thick wire coming from the wall going into my old cooker. Obviously once I get rid of this cooker I will have to take the wire out of it and put it into the new one. Does it need an electrician at £50 per job to do this or can I do it myself?

Please excuse my "dense way of explaining it" but I really don't know the technical/electrical terms.

Thanks in advance

PROFESSIONAL_LANDLORD

Yes of course! do it yourself

Isolate the supply at the fuse board

Make sure you get the connections right

After you tighten them, go back 30 mins later and re-tighten them, copper is a soft metal , the supply a for cooker must be very tight.

HugoSP

Hmmm

Don't know abut this. Practically speaking it should be an easy DIY job but this is where the wording of Part P may bring this job to its knees.

The cooker is installed, and is part of the installation in the kitchen.

Personally I would contact the LA Building Control Dept. If they are anything like mine they will hate Part P as it has been so badly thought out, and may interpret it to suit them (and you) and tell you just to get on with it.

glicky

HugoSP wrote: »

Hmmm

Don't know abut this. Practically speaking it should be an easy DIY job but this is where the wording of Part P may bring this job to its knees.

The cooker is installed, and is part of the installation in the kitchen.

Personally I would contact the LA Building Control Dept. If they are anything like mine they will hate Part P as it has been so badly thought out, and may interpret it to suit them (and you) and tell you just to get on with it.

Sorry, don't mean to be thick, but I don't understand?

ormus

http://www.iee.org/Publish/WireRegs/BR-PartP-dwellings.cfm

he means these new gov regulations, re electric work in bathrooms and kitchens.

baldelectrician

Part P

You do not have to notify direct replaqcements

Getting someone in?
How do you know there is a good earth connection? (by that I mean a good connection to earth (decent earth fault loop impedance)

Not trying to generate business for the trade, but you don't know until a test is done. I have had Scottish Power digging up the street 4 times in the past 2 years (fixing faulty earths on supply side- at no cost to customer)

Bad earth = fuse or MCB not clearing fault in time to save lives.

ps i generally charge £35 to £40 including bit of cooker cable

PROFESSIONAL_LANDLORD

ps i generally charge £35 to £40 including bit of cooker cable


And without the cooker cable:rolleyes:

glicky

Thanks for all your replies.

Well, if any of you live in the vacinity of Chigwell in Essex, you got the job! :beer:

PROFESSIONAL_LANDLORD

HugoSP wrote: »

Hmmm

Don't know abut this. Practically speaking it should be an easy DIY job but this is where the wording of Part P may bring this job to its knees.

The cooker is installed, and is part of the installation in the kitchen.

Personally I would contact the LA Building Control Dept. If they are anything like mine they will hate Part P as it has been so badly thought out, and may interpret it to suit them (and you) and tell you just to get on with it.

Hugo ! GEEZABREK !

Please stop spouting a lot of rubbish ! part P WOT ! for a cooker !


Are you not the same Joker that told a poster that (s)he could get their dish washer plumbed in for a tenner !


Don't suppose you could give me his phone no::p

PROFESSIONAL_LANDLORD

glicky wrote: »

Thanks for all your replies.

Well, if any of you live in the vacinity of Chigwell in Essex, you got the job! :beer:

O.K. get the beers in glicky ! I'll be along tomorrow 2.30 suit yoo :j

glicky

PROFESSIONAL_LANDLORD wrote: »

O.K. get the beers in glicky ! I'll be along tomorrow 2.30 suit yoo :j

Sure, but the cooker hasn't arrived yet ... does that matter though?