Aibu to ask my landlord NOT to fit my oven?

[mrshectic]

My landlord has finally got a new electric oven for me after 5 weeks of the previous one dying on me. He brought it round last week, we unwrapped it but it has no cable. Now it’s supposed to plug into a socket (for the oven).... BUT, he is going to do it himself.
Am I wrong in thinking this should be done by an electrician? Or a it’s not needed to go directly into a wall socket (just needs a cable fitted to oven with a plug on it) .. is it ok for him to do?

Thanks for any advice!

Not sure I entirely understand OP.

If there was supposed to be a cable with the cooker then he needs to contact the oven supplier and get the correct one for that particular oven.

My oven goes into a special sealed socket and doesn't have a plug.

If the oven should be connected to a sealed socket I wouldn't be happy with anyone other than an electrician fitting it.

If it just plugs into the mains like any other appliance then surely you won't need an electrician.

He did contact the supplier, but it just doesn’t come with one.
It just goes into a plug socket...so maybe I don’t need to worry about an electrician.
Thanks.

He’s putting a plug in. You could do this

What do you think a professional will do?

It's basic electrics and if he is competent and it's his flat then why not let him fit it? Does be work in the trades? He may have a qualification you don't know about.

Electric ovens aren't plugged in with a regular plug socket .

As a landlord, he should be getting a proper electrician to do this and sign it off. It will cost £30-£40.

Yes it's fairly simple and he could probably do it himself (my husband did ours) if it were his own home, but a decent landlord would get a qualified electrician to do it. But the fact that he's left you 5 weeks without an oven speaks volumes.

So it just has a terminal block that you need to wire a cable to with a plug on the end. Should be pretty obviously labeled/colour coded. Absolute waste of money to have an electrician come in. Just need to make sure it is three core wire and an appropriately fused plug. I would do this myself rather than trust an unknown landlord though!

Some ovens can be plugged into a standard socket with a 13 amp plug it depends on the rating. I would expect it to come with the cable and plug attached, mine did!
Is there no cable at all attached?

Most ovens/cookers these days dont come with a cable as standard. A lot of places charge extra for the cable.

Fitting a plug should pretty straight forward.

Ours goes into a 3 pin socket but the fitters had to thread the wire behind cupboards and attach the plug. It was a rather restricted selection though. It must have at least a wire.

What does the manual say? Some ovens can be used on the normal circuit with a plug, others need to be hardwired in.

If it needs to be hardwired then he needs to use an electrician.

It needs a heavier cable than standard flex. It needs to be wired in to a socket with a separate fuse by an electrician.

A wall socket can cope with 13 amps, which should be enough for a single oven. If there is a socket for the oven, it's presumably a dedicated one, so the oven won't be drawing electricity down the wire at the same time as anything else.

Couldn't he reuse the wire that went into the old oven?

Thanks... I just wanted to check really as I know you would need an electrician if it were a wall fitting one. I haven’t refused him doing it... I was asking if anyone knew, before I let him.

I am fairly handy myself with most things (including wiring a plug @ActualHornistactualhornet) ...but as I am renting and this isn’t my house, I wanted to ask advice on whether it needed to be done by electrician as I know things are different legally for renting.

Anyway thanks all for your advice!

England - no law that all electrics need to be done by an electrician, but in a rental a landlord needs to be very careful that it is safe as there ARE laws about that.

some ovens do plug into a standard socket.

Thankyou.