connecting an electric cooker -RM10

reformedEffortMaker_2

Hi

Can anyone tell me what I should expect to pay to connect an electric cooker?

i am simply replacing one that has been removed by previous owner, there is already a cooker socket in place.

I have called a few from Yellow Pages and been quoted from £130 + vat to £40 all inclusive and so have no idea how to judge whether I am being ripped off or about to let a bunch of cowboys in my home!

Thanks in advance for any replies :-)

Oh and i should add that ideally they should be local to the Dagenham area

FunkyMunkey

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Basically, you can do it yourself quite easily (assuming there is a wire already connected to the Double Pole Switch, so £40 sounds about right. It'd probably only take an electrician about 10 minutes!

IoweIoweitsofftoworkIgo

I had same problem last year, left 2 messages for electricians to call me back & neither did, I therefore did it myself!

I obviously turned the electricity off at mains, disconnected existing cooker, making a note of the wiring & then wired up new cooker.

Turned power back on & all working fine.

trf1960

I would have thought between £40-£60 if its a simple reconnection and if you can do it yourself so much the better. Hubby is a CORGI gas engineer and fully qualified electrician and I know he quotes around that figure normally.

Tao81

Is it legal to do it yourself?
£40-60 for 10 mins work?!!!! I know they have to travel and all, but still a bit steep innit??
£30 quid would be reasonable surely?!!

weekendwarrior

Tao81 wrote: »

Is it legal to do it yourself?
£40-60 for 10 mins work?!!!! I know they have to travel and all, but still a bit steep innit??
£30 quid would be reasonable surely?!!

Yes it is now legal to do yourself as long as the circuit for the cooker is already there!

big_ste

what you people forget when it comes to tradesman charging the shorter jobs are pro rata more expensive, as the fixed cost of travelling is the same and you have to fit in many small jobs to make a days pay up.

Tao81

So easily fitted around the bigger jobs most of the time, that's what gets to us people!!
We're not stupid, or loaded many of us!! Far from it! Don't know many tradesmen honest enough to admit when they are able to have done this and agree to charge a more reasonable rate under the circumstances?!....That's were they sting comes!!!

Thanks weekend warrior - Will need to do this soon, so won't need to 'bother' a poor tradesman who needs the bigger jobs to 'survive'.........So will suit all concerned.......Fabulous news!

computerwoman

I have always fitted my electric cooker's myself...although they have also had the cooker wire's on already but you can get some at boyes for next to nothing...or a hardware store...just tell them you need it for a cooker and they will know which one to sell you...it's abit fiddly at first as they are usually at the bottom on the back of the cooker...but it's just like changing a plug...but if you would prefere a trademan's no more than £25-30 pounds is the cost...any more and you are being conned...:Dcheck that they are qualified to do the job and not just odd job men...a qualified tradesman wont charge the earth....a con man will...

Canucklehead

Tao81 wrote: »

So easily fitted around the bigger jobs most of the time, that's what gets to us people!!
We're not stupid, or loaded many of us!! Far from it! Don't know many tradesmen honest enough to admit when they are able to have done this and agree to charge a more reasonable rate under the circumstances?!....That's were they sting comes!!!

Thanks weekend warrior - Will need to do this soon, so won't need to 'bother' a poor tradesman who needs the bigger jobs to 'survive'.........So will suit all concerned.......Fabulous news!

Good afternoon: It sounds as if you don't know the right tradespeople... but we (electricians, plasterers, brickies, painter/decorators, carpenters,double glaziers, builders, plumbers, other trades...sorry if I've missed you out!!.. and even CORGIs ) are here helping folks on MSE every day...sometimes the 'Thanks' button gets pushed, occasionally we find out the end result, every so often the OP never responds or, as today, we get tarred and feathered with the same brush...such is life...but it hasn't stopped most of us from contributing sound, moneysaving advice. As Martin says in the Forum Etiquette section 'Please be nice to all Moneysavers. There is no such thing as stupid question, and even if you disagree courtesy helps' :think:
Thank you.

Canucklehead

P.S. My apologies to the OP for intruding on his/her thread.

trf1960

Too right Canucklehead - and it always amazes me how people are so happy and quick to pay out large sums to non-qualified tradesmen for a job where they can 'see' the end result as opposed to those that could potentially harm and even kill.

As I mentioned for those that cared to read my post, if you CAN do it yourself, so much the better but if you cannot, or are unsure of anything, you should always get the correct qualified tradesmen in to do the job - whether it be 10 mins or 10 hours. I liked the fact that someone can even mention it being "a 10 min job" without even seeing it and to quote a price you have been given is irrelevant given that prices can be vastly different from one end of the country to the other. :rolleyes: