Removing Electric Cooker for work to be done.

[conny]

Quick question. Was having a discussion with 4th year apprentice in work today about disconnecting an electric cooker.
I say that I am allowed to disconnect it and reconnect it after I have had some flooring work done. It will be the same cooker being replaced in the same place. No work will be done to the circuit in any shape or form. Circuit protection is by 30A rewirable fuse on a dedicated circuit. No RCD's or MCB's in the consumer unit so isolation will be removal of fuse and stored securely until re-connected. Apprentice says as it is in a kitchen it is a 'special location' and must be notified to LABC or carried out by Part P registered contractor. (He has his 17th edition by the way).

For the record, the house is rented and the owner lives in Australia so getting them to arrange an electrician is out of the question and I will not pay for someone to do what I am perfectly capable of doing myself.

Who is right?

 

[Taylortwocities]

He is so wrong.
In the last iteration of Part P, kitchens ceased to be a "Special Location".
(Not a great decision IMO, but there you go).
Even before this, there was no requirement to notify ANYBODY to do what you have in mind. You could have installed a brand new cooker, just so long as the fixed wiring is not modified.

In fact you can now do all sorts of electrical work in a kitchen without notification. Just so long it is not a new circuit.

 

[conny]

Thanks TTC. Good to know he not such a clever d*ck as he thinks.

 

[Taylortwocities]

4th year apprentice, ha!

 

[Astra99]

Back in the good old days when minor insults were regarded as acceptable banter, we used to call the apprentice "the firm's half-wit"! His names, especially for the "senior" members of the team was somewhat more forthright!

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

Apprentice says as it is in a kitchen it is a 'special location' and must be notified to LABC or carried out by Part P registered contractor. (He has his 17th edition by the way).

There is no need to notify the refitting or replacing of electrical appliances whether location is deemed special or not, in England since April 2013, you can alter the existing hardwiring of circuits within a kitchen without a requirement to notify, in Wales you still have to. Notification would be required if a new consumer unit or a new circuit was to be installed in a kitchen, this applies to both and England and Wales.

Who is right?

Not the apprentice, they need to return back to at least year two of their training!