Kitchen Power Madness

strangeotron

I'm not sure where else to ask this. I imagine this site isn't really the place for it but what the hell. If it gets removed, well so be it. I find navigating this place rather difficult due to the sheer number of forums and subforums.

Yesterday I was using the oven (relatively new cooker, no problems thus far, no experimental methods or unsuitable materials involved, just chicken) and I heard a bang. I thought it was the people outside playign football bouncing the ball of the neighbour's shed (this happens all the time). I couldn't see any damage.

When i went to check on the chicken i saw the cooker and the microwave wasn't working. We have three plug sockets in the kitchen, two of them no longer work including the socket into which the cooker is directly wired (this also has a plug socket as well into which is a toaster). The only one that works is the one on the opposite wall with the fridge freezer. The light also works fine.

How could this have happened? How does a cooker breakig down, if that's what it is, affect a different plug socket? Is there any safe way to take a look at this before calling in the experts?

Thanks.

Vejovis

Could have just been a surge of electricity, happens to us all the time. Reset the fuses and off you go again.

strangeotron

The plugs don't seem to have blown fuses.

I'm not sure how that affects two separate power outlets and I'm reluctant to open them up to check further for obvious reasons!

Vejovis

I meant the fuses in the fuse box.

Edwardia

Aren't electric cookers supposed to be on their own fused spur ? I'd check fuses on consumer unit and if it didn't work then get a sparky in cos the cooker could have a fault.

Fruitcake

It's possible that the "other" socket that has blown is a spur off the cooker point. I don't know if that is allowed but as others have said, it needs checking out by an electrician.

strangeotron

It's possible.

scotsbob

Sounds like the socket is overloaded (only 3 sockets in a kitchen???) and blown main fuse.

However, it would be better to post your query here.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=&f=39

King_Nothing

So let me get this straight, the cooker is actually plugged into a normal 13 amp socket? So you can kill the power to the cooker by simply removing the plug from the socket? Or the cooker is on a spur unit which has an optional 13 socket built into it to it?

peter_the_piper

There are some cookers which quite happily (and legally) plug inot a 13a socket, Fagor and Hotpoint to name but 2.
OP's cooker was directly wired into a socket so seems to be correct. I would imgine that there is a faulty bit of wiring somewhere, call the leccie in.

Vejovis

scotsbob wrote: »

Sounds like the socket is overloaded (only 3 sockets in a kitchen???) and blown main fuse.

However, it would be better to post your query here.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=&f=39

Luxury, we only have 2. Thank goodness for triple adaptors.