Electric built in oven - is it safe to plug it in instead of hardwiring it?

frank_olaf

BikingBud said:

frank_olaf said:

The old oven is an electric one. I've attached a picture of the socket (but hard to see because there is a gas pipe in front of it )

I've also attached a picture of the fuse box. The one in the red rectangle is the one that tripped.

How does anybody that has any sense of competence or self respect put a gas pipe in front of an electrical face plate

Does the gas pipe go to a hob? Is it still required or can you get it chopped and capped?

Where does the cable going out of the LHS of the image go? Is that a 2 oven stack and you pulled the lower oven out?

I would suggest, given your concern and the absolute need for safety, speak with AO to see what they can do for your install:

"You’ll need to let us know if you’re switching from a gas oven to a new electric oven in the basket. If you are, then we’ll send one of our qualified Gas Safe engineers to take care of installation. Don’t worry, this won’t cost you a penny more."

It may be very difficult otherwise to get someone out for a relatively small job.

Yeah, I have no idea why the gas pipe was installed like that.

The gas is for the hob and we still need that. Im not 100% sure where the cable goes but I think it connects to the hob and is used for the sparker (which hasn't worked in the 7 years we've lived here). That's why I'm thinking of unplugging it and using that socket for the oven. 

shiraz99

Ectophile said:

A lot of people here are fretting over nothing.  When I had my kitchen done, the new oven came with a fitted 13A plug.  It's plugged into a normal wall socket; there's nothing on the old cooker circuit any more.

The kitchen hasn't caught fire yet, even after several years.

A 13A socket is designed to deliver 13A or 3kW for a reasonable amount of time without overheating.  The oven only takes about 10 to 12 minutes to heat up, after which it switches on and off on the thermostat.

Totally agree. My single oven is plugged in to a standard socket in the kitchen with the 13A plug it came with and has been working just fine in all the years I've had it, as it's designed to do, never tripped a circuit yet despite have multiple sockets being used at the same time. Same goes for the oven at my parents and other friends and family.

Risteard

TadleyBaggie said:

Clearly an RCD which will protect multiple circuits.

Technically that is not a fuse box (there are no fuses), it's a distribution box.

Distribution board (DB).

edgex

frank_olaf said:

BikingBud said:

frank_olaf said:

The old oven is an electric one. I've attached a picture of the socket (but hard to see because there is a gas pipe in front of it )

I've also attached a picture of the fuse box. The one in the red rectangle is the one that tripped.

How does anybody that has any sense of competence or self respect put a gas pipe in front of an electrical face plate

Does the gas pipe go to a hob? Is it still required or can you get it chopped and capped?

Where does the cable going out of the LHS of the image go? Is that a 2 oven stack and you pulled the lower oven out?

I would suggest, given your concern and the absolute need for safety, speak with AO to see what they can do for your install:

"You’ll need to let us know if you’re switching from a gas oven to a new electric oven in the basket. If you are, then we’ll send one of our qualified Gas Safe engineers to take care of installation. Don’t worry, this won’t cost you a penny more."

It may be very difficult otherwise to get someone out for a relatively small job.

Yeah, I have no idea why the gas pipe was installed like that.

The gas is for the hob and we still need that. Im not 100% sure where the cable goes but I think it connects to the hob and is used for the sparker (which hasn't worked in the 7 years we've lived here). That's why I'm thinking of unplugging it and using that socket for the oven. 

BikingBud was asking where the grey cable goes/is connected to.

The hob is the black cable plugged into the socket.
There's a grey cable coming from the box behind the gas pipe.

TELLIT01

Our old dual fuel, free standing cooker had a 13 amp plug on it.