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Electric Hob Help
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So AO sent out a qualified gas engineer and electrician and the old gas hob needs to be cut off the supply or presume? So I’m hoping that will be ok0
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raspberryblueberry said:Ah I understand, thank you so much for your help. It's such minefield working it out, I thought it would be easy! Is there any other options that would be better? Is hardwiring it in difficult, if I have the AO installation doing that or is that something they wouldn't do?
Whilst we replaced a gas hob with induction we were ok because the old device was a dual fuel cooker with dual ovens so had a dedicated high amperage line for the original electric ovens so could simply use that without any changes (we had additional line added for our new electric ovens which are on the other side of the kitchen).0 -
raspberryblueberry said:It's just me and my partner, and it isn't a forever home or anything. It was previously rented before we bought it, so want to update the old hob and oven that have definitely seen better days.
So the AO website says it can just be plugged in, which is obviously a UK website etc. So am I right in thinking that it can be plugged in to the existing plug fine, I will just be limited to using a maximum of 2 rings at a time?1 -
Looks like you have a dedicated cooker circuit - That should be up to the task of powering an induction hob. Still a bit too close though, and I doubt there is much scope to move either the isolation switch or the hob to increase the safety distance.
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The AO electrician and gas registered worker, said that an electric hob would get over the issue of the switch that is close to the hob. Does that sound ok? He also said the hob could be wired in, which hopefully it can be too if needed.
Eventually we'll look into a new kitchen, or even removing the splashback and tiling instead, and maybe even moving that socket, but I'm very naive when it comes to all these things! Thought an easy job has turned into something quite complicated!0 -
DullGreyGuy said:raspberryblueberry said:Ah I understand, thank you so much for your help. It's such minefield working it out, I thought it would be easy! Is there any other options that would be better? Is hardwiring it in difficult, if I have the AO installation doing that or is that something they wouldn't do?
Whilst we replaced a gas hob with induction we were ok because the old device was a dual fuel cooker with dual ovens so had a dedicated high amperage line for the original electric ovens so could simply use that without any changes (we had additional line added for our new electric ovens which are on the other side of the kitchen).
That makes a lot of sense!0 -
raspberryblueberry said:The AO electrician and gas registered worker, said that an electric hob would get over the issue of the switch that is close to the hob. Does that sound ok? He also said the hob could be wired in, which hopefully it can be too if needed.
Eventually we'll look into a new kitchen, or even removing the splashback and tiling instead, and maybe even moving that socket, but I'm very naive when it comes to all these things! Thought an easy job has turned into something quite complicated!1 -
It took a while to dawn on me, but that socket next to the cooker is your cooker point. It's got a 13A socket, and a big red switch for turning a cooker on and off.So rather than being lazy and plugging a hob into the 13A socket, what you need is someone competent enough in electrics to wire a hob into that big switch.If you have an electric oven, it may already be wired in to that switch. That is not necessarily a problem.If it sticks, force it.
If it breaks, well it wasn't working right anyway.0 -
Has anyone mentioned the size of the hole in the worktop? It looks like you have laminate so making it bigger wouldn't be a problem, I doubt anyone sent by a retailer will be able to do it though. Making the hole smaller would be a problem too.Tall, dark & handsome. Well two out of three ain't bad.0
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