cooker

The electrics in my 3-bed mid-terrace house are pretty old, with an old Wylex fusebox. I would like to get an induction cooker (30-45A), and there's currently no cooker circuit (and no space in the fusebox). I had an electrician round who suggested if I didn't want to upgrade the fusebox right...

Sorry to be a little bit vague but I was cleaning my uncles oil fed rayburn the other day but cannot find where a angled bit of thin plate about 20cm long goes, I noticed it had fallen on top of the burner and retrieved it when I took the burner out, I put it to one side thinking I'll find its...

Apologies if this has been asked before but I've read a lot of posts and can't seem to find a straight answer. I am installing an induction cooker (hardwired) alongside an oven with a plug. Currently there is a double socket behind the oven. It is on a 32A circuit which should be fine. So I...

Hey all Had a neff cooker hood installed which is ducted to exhaust outside. It's quite high up the wall with low ceilings so the stainless steel casing needs cutting down to around 40cm. Our electrician is saying we need to use the bit with the side vents, but I don't think we need the side...

Hi, I have a direct wired cooker on a 40A type B MCD. Is it ok to switch out the direct wire for a 32A 3-pin industrial socket (so the cooker could be unplugged and something else plugged in from time to time in a domestic installation?

Hello all, After some advice please. Currently have a 32A switch on my consumer unit with a 6mm T&E cable going to a cooker switch in the kitchen - unsure what appliance this fed before. I am wanting to add an electric induction hob and oven that I understand both need to be wired into a...

Hoping someone can help. I recently had a B&Q kitchen installed (by their fitters) and there is a fairly sizeable gap between the hob and wooden worktop (image attached). The fitters have said they can’t get the hob any tighter but to me the gap seems too big. Could anyone please advise if a...

Hello all, I couldn’t find this anywhere in the forum. I’ve just moved house and there’s an empty space in the kitchen where a range cooker would go. The house has a boiler too. I’ve not seen a gas line fixture that looks like this before, had the previous resident had it cut and sealed off or...

Hi We are renovating a small bedsit and the kitchen wires are all exposed and a bit of a maze. I have traced most them them. However, the once circled in red comes from upstairs into a black junction box and back the same way upstairs. What is even more confusing is it is wired up with the...

We're putting in a new kitchen, and we want to move the cooker. The current cooker switch (with single socket) is about 1m diagonally away from the connection plate box, that has the ignition for the hob and the cooker wired currently wired into. I want to move the cooker (Beko QBSE223SX, 16A...

My Smeg cooker is now 8 years old. It seems to have developed a hole in the base of the oven. I notice there are scrape marks by it and I have absolutely no idea how they got there! My first question is, is it safe to use the pyrolytic cleaning setting, or is it now too dangerous? In fact...

Currently, I have a socket for my gas cooker that has another socket spurred off it for my under counter fridge. A little like the attached image of mine, but without the dual outlet plate and just spurring straight off the back of the socket under the counter. I plan on putting some eBay LED...

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Hi... I am moderately competent at any DIY and currently refitting my narrow boat with a new (bottled) gas cooker. The old one had a piezo igniter and worked fine. The info from the installation manual for new one and problems is given here below as the message I sent to Hotpoint (and their...

So, I got a built in cooker and it came with a plug into the cooker instead of just wiring straight from wall to cooker so it would require a junction box to connect both wires together as the wall plate isn't easily accessible to wire straight in.. My question, what amp junction box should I...

I have just replaced the timer which is working fine. There were no connection on the board for the 2 other live wires going to both ovens. Can I just connect them and join them to a permanent live? I really can't afford to buy another unit, an OEM is £133, this one set me back £70.

Hi, we are getting a new cooker. The old one has been removed from a circuit that states 32amp circuit in the consumer unit for the cooker. All the new cookers I am looking at seem to want higher? 40amp plus. Have I misunderstood is it OK to use the current circuit and just replace old cooker...

My cooker has a dodgy element in the fan oven ( I use the top oven now) However when it trips the upstairs/downstairs lights go off I am no electrician however this seems bonkers to me ! Any info advice would be greatly appreciated

hi I currently have a hardwired oven but the new oven has come with a plug. The oven is run off it own 30amp mcb from fuse box. My plan is to run a spar from the hardwire to a new socket a little further away (think I saw in has to be 30cm from oven in regs?). As the current hardwired outlet is...

Hi folks, First post so please excuse any house rules I have broke. I am switching from a standalone gas cooker to standalone electric cooker and will be disconnecting the gas cooker via the installed micro point fitting. Will the fitting attached to the wall which is self sealing be...