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Replacing a hob

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  • SadieO
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    edited 30 January 2023 at 6:55PM
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    Does your hob have a make on it, Sadie? If so, Google that model. If you find a match, then Google the installation instructions for it - it'll have the cutout dims in there.
    Nothing on it all unfortunately, and I can't even see anything that might have once been a brand that's worn off.

    However something really fortuitous just happened. Bumped into a former colleague and in our chit chat about what we'd been up to since we last saw each other I obviously mentioned buying a house. Turns out her partner does kitchens and joinery! So I have his number so can ask him to take a look and possibly fit one for me. Thanks to everyone who took the trouble to respond here. I now feel I can have a relatively informed chat with him. Cheers all! 
  • plumb1_2
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    There will be a tag/label on it, you will have to remove the oven 
  • Choose a hob that you like that's about 60cm and get someone to fit it. The whole can be enlarged with a jigsaw, multitool, scorpion saw etc. Anyone who claims to able to swap a hob will be able to do this.
    This assumes the worktop is laminate or wood, or something similarly easy to cut. Quartz, granite, Dekton etc. would be very challenging to cut in situ, perhaps impossible in practice.
  • FreeBear
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    Choose a hob that you like that's about 60cm and get someone to fit it. The whole can be enlarged with a jigsaw, multitool, scorpion saw etc. Anyone who claims to able to swap a hob will be able to do this.
    This assumes the worktop is laminate or wood, or something similarly easy to cut. Quartz, granite, Dekton etc. would be very challenging to cut in situ, perhaps impossible in practice.
    A diamond disc on an angle grinder makes short work of most things - Generates a lot of mess though...

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  • SadieO
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    I think it's laminate, based on the rest of the kitchen (and indeed house) I imagine it's whatever the cheapest possible option is! Hopefully my chap will be able to sort it, whatever it is!
  • ic
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    Choose a hob that you like that's about 60cm and get someone to fit it. The whole can be enlarged with a jigsaw, multitool, scorpion saw etc. Anyone who claims to able to swap a hob will be able to do this.
    This assumes the worktop is laminate or wood, or something similarly easy to cut. Quartz, granite, Dekton etc. would be very challenging to cut in situ, perhaps impossible in practice.
    Surely nobody is going to invest in a quality work top, and have it sized for an £80 hob - the cutout cost would be more than the hob!
  • plumb1_2
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    SadieO said:
    Hopefully my chap will be able to sort it, whatever it is!
    Go girl 😊
  • ic said:
    Choose a hob that you like that's about 60cm and get someone to fit it. The whole can be enlarged with a jigsaw, multitool, scorpion saw etc. Anyone who claims to able to swap a hob will be able to do this.
    This assumes the worktop is laminate or wood, or something similarly easy to cut. Quartz, granite, Dekton etc. would be very challenging to cut in situ, perhaps impossible in practice.
    Surely nobody is going to invest in a quality work top, and have it sized for an £80 hob - the cutout cost would be more than the hob!
    Fair point!
  • SadieO
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    So...fun times. Talked to my joiner chap who advised me that legally it needs to be a qualified electrician that installs hobs. It's not like the police are gonna come knocking and plenty of people do their own, but technically not allowed. So I thought I'd better do it by the book and found a couple of hobs on AO that had offers for free/half price installation. Except when I started to order, it asked me if I have a big red switch by the cooker. I don't (and it's not a plug either, the wire just goes straight into the wall) and when I answered "no" AO told me I couldn't have installation. So, back to the drawing board I guess. 
  • FreeBear
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    SadieO said:
    So...fun times. Talked to my joiner chap who advised me that legally it needs to be a qualified electrician that installs hobs. It's not like the police are gonna come knocking and plenty of people do their own, but technically not allowed. So I thought I'd better do it by the book and found a couple of hobs on AO that had offers for free/half price installation. Except when I started to order, it asked me if I have a big red switch by the cooker. I don't (and it's not a plug either, the wire just goes straight into the wall) and when I answered "no" AO told me I couldn't have installation. So, back to the drawing board I guess. 
    Gas hobs need to be connected by a Gas Safe registered engineer. Electric hobs can be installed by any competent person, and they don't need to be qualified to do it.
    But.... If you don't have an isolation switch near your existing hob, where does the cable go to ?
    It may be that you need a new circuit installed back to the consumer unit (that bit would need a competent/qualified person) and a switch fitted near the hob.

    If this place was a rental, the lack of a switch should be noted on any EICR paperwork you had.

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