Regs on installing electric cooker

gypsymum

I have had the same electric cooker for around 10+ years - def time for a new one. It is hard wired into a socket on the wall approx 2 foot above the hob. Bought a new cooker online - paid for installation only to find that some new regs apparently mean that the socket is now in the wrong place & the engineers will not install the new cooker. The socket has to be to one side or other they say?
My kitchen is tiny & there just is nowhere else for the cooker to go or the socket to be moved to (fridge freezer one side/microwave the other). Is there a way round this? Or am I forever condemned to my old cooker & hope it never packs up!?

sniggings

many electric cookers now just plug in a normal socket, just like a kettle, get one of those.

timbo58

I thought only gas cookers could be plugged into a normal socket since all that can supply is 13a max?
I.e. used for ignition only?

I thought all electric cookers were 3k> and so needed a seperate fuse way on the consumer unit and a hard wired connection in the kitchen.
I think they need an electrician to sign off now also?

thescouselander

AFAIK the regs are not retrospective so even if they have changed your cooker point will be OK where it is as long as you're not running a new circuit. Suggest you give someone else a call to wire it up or do it yourself (only if you feel competent).

It does sound strange that the cable wires in above the hob though. Normally it is hidden behind and only the switch is above worktop level.

Ant555

timbo58 wrote: »

I thought only gas cookers could be plugged into a normal socket since all that can supply is 13a max?
I.e. used for ignition only?

My electric oven arrived with a normal 13a plug. I was surprised as I had paid an electrician to install a new/separate circuit back to my fuse box and didn't realise that any oven could be plugged into a 'normal' socket. Many single ovens are exactly the same so that could be an option for you.

However are you looking to replace a free standing cooker including a hob? ie is the hob electric too?

Gordon_Hose

Wiring up an oven is really easy, no more difficult than wiring a plug.

We had the same issue with Curry's "Knowhow" installers - they'll say anything to get out of installing. I wired in our new electric oven myself in the end.

If you paid for installation make sure you get your money back.

macman

As above. If you can wire a plug, you can wire an FCU.
Isolate the circuit first, of course.

wymondham

If you feel confident then no reason you can't do this yourself. as said before make sure the power is off first!

dil1976

Phone them up and ask them to quote which regs it has breached.

martinsurrey

dil1976 wrote: »

Phone them up and ask them to quote which regs it has breached.

and where is says that reg applies to replacement of a fixed appliance on an existing circuit.

dil1976

martinsurrey wrote: »

and where is says that reg applies to replacement of a fixed appliance on an existing circuit.

Or maybe this "reg" doesnt actually exisist?