Electric hob cutting out

Panda78

Hi All,

My electric oven works fine, but the ceramic hob will often cut out - especially if i am using the oven at the same time. I think this is because they are both wired to the same outlet - i only have one wall switch that works the oven, hob and extractor fan, so they must be over powering? Only recently moved to the place so have no idea why it was fitted like that.

Does anyone know how much an electrician would charge to seperate them and install seperate switches for the hob and oven, please?

Horseunderwater

Recently paid £25.80 for one to check some wiring which took him 8 mins. Depending on how much rewiring involved as well as electrical points it might be quite costly. Are you the owner or do you rent it. If renting landlord should sort it.

Ebe_Scrooge

When you say the hob cuts out, do you mean it trips the circuit breaker at the consumer unit ? If so, then I would suspect you're right, the combination of the over + hob is drawing too much power for the circuit to handle. In that case you would need a sparky to install another circuit.

But if it's not tripping the breaker, I would suspect a fault somewhere within the hob, which any domestic appliance repair-man should be able to look at for you. Could be some sort of internal breaker, or maybe an overheat protection device ? I don't know, but a proper "cooker repair man" should be able to sort it pretty quickly.

Panda78

Ebe_Scrooge wrote: »

When you say the hob cuts out, do you mean it trips the circuit breaker at the consumer unit ? If so, then I would suspect you're right, the combination of the over + hob is drawing too much power for the circuit to handle. In that case you would need a sparky to install another circuit.

But if it's not tripping the breaker, I would suspect a fault somewhere within the hob, which any domestic appliance repair-man should be able to look at for you. Could be some sort of internal breaker, or maybe an overheat protection device ? I don't know, but a proper "cooker repair man" should be able to sort it pretty quickly.

Thanks, it doesn't trip the circuit. I got an appliance engineer out and they told me it was a faulty hob and not worth repairing. Ordered a new one, but the company wouldn't fit it once they saw that it was all wired to one wall switch! Really at a loss now.

Ebe_Scrooge

I'm surprised they wouldn't fit it for you. Mind you, I'm not an expert, it's possible there's some regulations to comply with. Having said that, as long as the circuit can supply the maximum possible load, I wouldn't have thought there'd be an issue.

Probably the best idea is to speak to an electrician, see if he will fit it for you. He'll know all the rules 'n' regs, and as mentioned before will be able to run a new circuit to it if that's needed.