Cooker

[King29]

So the cooker is broke beyond repair. Has been for sometime, wife is sick of cooking in a small halogen oven contraption. I've decided to get a new cooker. Got my eye on one but it 'suggests' it's going via a spur and not a 13amp plug. Max power rating for the oven is 2.1kw. Since some normal heaters are 2.2kw plug in electric with a 3 pin plug type; surely I can just wire a plug and run it off that?

The socket behind the cooker is a twin socket where as most spurs I can see are single so I can't bodge it.

Am I going to be OK sticking a plug on the end of the wire?

It's a Stoves single oven.
https://www.stoves.co.uk/products/cooking/built-in-ovens/st-seb602f/

[Freddyfruitba...]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Easy-X]

Regardless of the double-socket is your existing connection a single, direct connection to your consumer unit or part of the ring of the rest of the kitchen?
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[hellkat]

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[steve the grease]

My understanding is that for each socket outlet ( single or double ) on a ring circuit it is acceptable to have one spurred out let. As the anticpated load is less than would be taken for a socket it would be acceptable to have a fixed outlet for the oven wired from the double socket as a spur. But I'm only an amateur spark.
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[King29]

This is where the old cooker plugged in and this is what our fuse box looks like.

[steve the grease]

[King29]

And to clarify, the oven retails at £279 BUT there is an outlet selling factory seconds, dented case for £100. Bargain.

So can I bang a plug on it yes/no.

[Islander]

No. Do it properly.

Run a 6mm2 feed directly from an 32A MCB fitted to the RCD side of the distribution unit to a cooker switch and from that to a cooker outlet. Then use a length of 6mm2 to wire the cooker from that.

Position the switch so that you can isolate the cooker easily if a problem occurs (i.e. very accessible and NOT directly above the hob)

Test insulation resistance, continuity and R1+R2.

If that doesn't make sense then get an electrician in.

[Nobby the Bastard]

Time for Singhpal...
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[King29]

[Nobby the Bastard]

And then the next know-nothing will think it's a 30 amp supply.
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[Ste]

[King29]

OK, so shall I just buy the bastard and fit a plug and see what happens?

Or fit the spur.

Or tell the wife to use the halogen and be mindful of her place?

I can actually buy a plug fitted cooker from Argos for £130 but it's a BUSH brand and iirc BUSH are wank.

[King29]

[Nobby the Bastard]

Who did the survey when you bought the place? I'd sue if I were you.

The only time I've ever had a place that didnt have a dedicated 30 amp supply for the cooker was a studio flat and that includes stuff built in the 40s 70s 80s 90s and 00s.

Plus the 300 year old farmhouse.
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[King29]

A friend of the seller. It used to be a factory workshop, hence the quarry tiles and plug sockets in the ceiling.

https://i.imgur.com/uMVBv4h.jpg

[Pete.]

[King29]

No electric.

https://i.imgur.com/BnXM2Fc.jpg

[winz]

Jesus wept. Just do a proper fucking job.

There's nothing worse than someone who cuts corners, my house is full of bodge jobs from the previous owners and I'm working my way through them if I can, if not then a pro is called in.
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[Pete.]

That's not a 'cooker'. It's just a combined oven and grille. No cooking rings/hob or anything to put a pan on.

You realise that?
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[King29]

Yes there is a gas hob on top. That’s what the gas pipe at the back is for, there are 4 gas rings on top.

[P.]

Not cooker related, because I let pros do my electrics, but I have seen cleaner crack dens in Medway...

[King29]