Oven hardwire circuit

bekbok

I’m buying a house that does not have an oven. I’m not sure if it has the wiring in place for us to wire in a new electric oven or not. If the wiring does not currently exist, what rough ballpark am I looking at to get the wiring done so I can get an electric oven. The house is near Manchester as I know prices for these things can vary based on where in the country you are.
Thanks for any advice.

grumbler

What sort of hob does it have?
I checked a random oven and its power was just 0.8kW. Many kettles are ~3.5kW and don't need any special wiring as normal sockets are for up to 13.5A.

And I am sure the price depends on the distance from the consumer unit and on many other factors.

baza52

might be .8kW but at 35amp still needs connecting to a dedicated circuit.

bekbok

The consumer unit is in a storeroom next to the kitchen, which we are considering knocking the kitchen through to. As for what type the consumer unit is, I can’t say with much detail what it is like other than it looks vaguely recent, but in a plastic box with circuit breakers not fuses. Consumer unit is halfway up a wall, very easy to access. Distance, roughly accounting for having to follow a wall, is between 10-30m.

basill

It's not always easy to find out what circuit a particular oven needs, most adverts don't have that information easily available.


I found that the John Lewis listings are a good place to start, the first line of the product specifications always tell you what type of circuit is required.

A 13A oven can be plugged into a normal socket and will usually be
a single oven. 16A or 32A ones have more cavities or features nd need to be hardwired to a dedicated circuit.

TELLIT01

If there isn't a dedicated cooker breaker in the consumer, but there is a spare space, it's a straightforward exercise for an electrician to install the circuit. Cost will depend on where the cooker is going to be in relation to the consumer unit. It could be a couple of hours work, it could be a full day.

societys_child

£3,500 . . .

grumbler

baza52 wrote: »

might be .8kW but at 35amp still needs connecting to a dedicated circuit.

Who said 35?
0.8kW is just 3.3A.

baza52

grumbler wrote: »

Who said 35?
0.8kW is just 3.3A.

ok link to the 0.8kw oven you saw, the one i checked on currys was 0.8kw but 35A

grumbler

Yes, I stand corrected . I misread 0.79kWh. It's 2.3kW actually.
I did think that 0.8 was too low for an oven.

bekbok

societys_child wrote: »

£3,500 . . .

Why so high? Though that was more in the ballpark for a full rewire which we shouldn’t need just for an oven. (Admittedly I would want to get a full rewire done at some point.)