to connect my new electric cooker myself

[CandiceSmith]

Am buying a new electric cookerfrom Cutrrys. They want £70 to connect it. Can't imagine an electrician would be much cheaper.

Surely its just a case of turning the electricity off at the mains; unscrewing the big grey wire from the old cooker and connecting it in the same way to the new one.

AIBU to connect it myself?

The consumer unit is a set of circuit breakers (modern ones) or a board with various bits of fuse wire controlling different circuits in your house (old fashioned ones).

Your new cooker requiring hard wiring will need to be wired into its own special cooker circuit, the reason being that they are too powerful for the ring main circuit and could be dangerous. They just pull too much of a load.

You will need to take advice from a qualified electrician, I'm afraid.

I read the title to mean you were considering connecting it to yourself, I was worried about your state of mind.

Glad all is ok anyway, dh looked on youtube and followed that.

Have a look at how your current cooker is wired. In the older models they were hard wired into a special circuit with a special type of connector as Topseyt said. Lots of modern cookers just plug into the special circuit using a standard plug(mine does). They are more efficient and therefore can use a 13 amp plug rather than a 30 amp circuit. Either way it’s pretty straightforward whichever way you do it.

As someone has mentioned, Neutral = Blue or Black and Live = Brown or Red. Earth is green and yellow.

You can do electrical work in your property without a part P certificate but if you sell the house then you may want to have your work looked at by a qualified electrician to make sure that your work is up to snuff. If somebody with a Part P signs it off and it burns down because of dodgy wiring then the liability lies with the Part P holder.

When I moved into my last house we inherited a very attractive range cooker that turned out to be useless. We stuck with it for a few years and then replaced at which point I found out that the W%@^ker who installed it had used lighting cable to connect it.

Yanbu not all electrical work is straightforward, but these are in general.

I'm sorry but did someone really say it's illegal to connect an electric appliance in your own home?

Don't be silly. Just get an electrician. They will charge £30 - 40.

Oh the oven doesn't have its own circuit then. There is a breaker in the circuit box labelled "downstairs electrics" amd not a separate oven one so I assume it's just on the normal circuit, same one as the fridge and the tv.

Dh says the new oven is a higher amp than the old one. He's an electrical engineer but is refusing to get involved in the new oven as he reckons we don't need one but ive ordered it anyway! It's causing arguements!

I just wanted to thank you for giving me the confidence to install my own electric cooker. I checked the advice on You Tube and on this site and saved myself installation costs and electrician costs, thank you. As you say, turn off at mains and I also turned off all fuses in our fuse box, I took a photo of the wiring on our old cooker and double checked instructions for new cooker esp. difference in colour of wires. I also had a pair of pliers handy.

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