Installing an Electric Cooker Point

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Does anyone know how difficult it might be to install a cooker point to take a double oven, and any idea of cost. We currently have a fitted single oven plugged into a standard socket but have been advised to upgrade if we replace it. The situation is complicated by the oven housing and cupboard hiding the wall behind (existing sockets accessed by cut outs in back panel). Tia

We had one fitted when our kitchen was re-done. The cable is run through the ceiling to a separate consumer unit for the cooker as there wasn't space on the existing one, which it is next to. We paid the electrician a day rate as we had a lot of rewiring and moving things done.

usually the socket behind the unit would do the job,if it is 32amp.
check the consumer unit if you got MCB 32amp and make sure it is for that socket.
double oven for a standard socket 13amp or less won't be enough,
all down to both oven output put together.

If you are in the UK, it is usual for many sockets to be supplied from a circuit fed from a 32A MCB.

However, you must not attach any single load greater than 13A to it.

You must not attach a cooker point to it. Only fused 13A outlets and sockets.

A cooker needs it's own dedicated circuit. Which coincidentally may also be a 32A.

Thank you, for the replies. Do you mean it may be possible to swap the socket for a cooker outlet or would the wiring need upgrading too. The fuseboard is not far away from the socket , maybe 15 ft, in a boiler cupboard.

the wiring should be upgraded and I think the cooker ought to be on its own circuit with a dedicated fuse/breaker

Do you mean it may be possible to swap the socket for a cooker outlet

No.

or would the wiring need upgrading

You need a separate, dedicated circuit for the cooker. It's fairly unusual not to have one already. With luck there will be a spare unused way in your CU. Cables are most often channeled into the plaster or run under floors, but in a kitchen it may be possible and convenient to run it along the wall behind your kitchen units.

Chasing out walls is surprisingly dusty.

Electricians are generally not good at plastering, tiling or redecorating.