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Electric built in oven - is it safe to plug it in instead of hardwiring it?
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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
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I've also attached a picture of the fuse box. The one in the red rectangle is the one that tripped.
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.
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.0 -
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.0
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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).
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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.
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.
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.
The hob is the black cable plugged into the socket.
There's a grey cable coming from the box behind the gas pipe.1 -
Our old dual fuel, free standing cooker had a 13 amp plug on it.
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