Our old cooker went poof at the weekend and tripped the electrics. We assumed it could only be the cooker that caused the problem and bought a new one. DH wired it in (heavy duty cooker wire, has an isolation switch on the wall) but it still wouldn't work.
Then we opened the cupboard next to the cooker and discovered that the cooker wire does not go directly via the isolation switch but is wired into a 13A regular plug along with the wire for the gas hob ignition. Both are wired into one plug which is plugged into a double socket which is spurred off the cooker switch. It was the socket that had broken. We replaced that and have put it back as was and it all works.
But I'm not sure whether it's really ok. Or if it's dangerous. There have been a good few corners cut in this house (not by us) that we have had to rectify at quite a lot of cost (drains, roofing).
Anyone know if we should be calling an electrician out? It's been wired like that for the whole nearly 7 years we've lived here without causing a problem. But I don't really want to mess about with electricity.