kitchen units and oven

spaceboy

I dont have enough money for a new kitchen but need some wall mounted units and also a new hob (I've removed the old gas hob which was integrated into the worktop).

Firstly, when can I find decent low cost wall units?

Secondly, if I buy en electric hob on gumtree how easy is it to fit? Would I need an electrician

Thirdly, the integrated oven is pretty old and the fan is noisy. Would I need to get a new oven with now unit around it? How easy is this to do myself?

Typhoon2000

Try Ikea for wall cabinets.

If you don’t have a socket to plug the electric hob into you will need an electrician. Some high power hobs will need a new cable to the fuse box.

Integrated electric ovens are easy to swap out your self. Usually a few retaining screws to remove and it pulls out. There should be a plug socket behind it.

debtdebt

Try https://www.diykitchens.com for wall units.

If you're replacing a gas hob with an electric one, there most probably won't be a fused spur to connect the new hob too so you'll need an electrician. I hope you got a gas engineer to cap off the gas pipe left when you removed the old hob.

cybervic

Try gumtree or eBay for second hand kitchen, some sells several units only some sells complete kitchen including appliance. If you have gas supply, a freestanding gas hob & oven might be a cheaper option. We recently sold one that's only 3 years old for £150.

FreeBear

Unless you plan on using a one or two ring hob, you will need an electrician to install a suitable supply from the consumer unit (fuse board) to the hob. If you are lucky, the existing oven might be wired up to a 45A circuit, but you need an electrician to check it out/

spaceboy

cybervic wrote: »

Try gumtree or eBay for second hand kitchen, some sells several units only some sells complete kitchen including appliance. If you have gas supply, a freestanding gas hob & oven might be a cheaper option. We recently sold one that's only 3 years old for £150.

I don't want a gas hob.

AlexMac

I'm comng late to this- so maybe you're sorted, but when we did exactly what you wish for- replaced an oven and hob, we found that basic electric ovens are only about 200-odd quid in places like B&Q;

and the advantage of the simpler ones are that they are rated 13 Amp, so you can simply plug them into an existing 13amp socket. So we bought two; much more spacious and flexible, and no more expensive than one purpose built double oven which in our case would have required a new heavier Amperage cooker circuit run from the Consumer Unit.

As oven are a standard size we simply fitted the two new ones into a new full height 600mm wide larder unit carcase, with a narrow infill panel below, and a shelf and door above so there's a perfect high, shallow cupboard for the cookbooks. And as we already have B&Q doors on the rest of the kitchen (a DIY upgrade to replace the peeling old melamine fronted ones a couple of years ago) it all matches perfectly!

I wouldn't mess about buying electrics on Gumtree when new ones are so cheap - change out of £300 for the Oven/hob pack. And any decent eletrician will probably get trade discount on 'em for you (although B&Q don't always apply the discount to kitchens)

Good luck