Gas cooker to electric double oven..

7 replies

roxyroo89 · 24/10/2019 19:17

Our gas cooker has failed us. We have ordered a new electric oven to come next week. I'm in the process of getting quotes to have the gas dissconected from the cooker asap. We have paid to have it installed but just wondered how easy it will be? Is it just a case of plugging it in? We have never had an electric oven so now I'm panicking they won't be able to install it.

Thanks.

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ratsnest · 24/10/2019 20:54

You have to get it wired in by an electrician (in my limited experience of having one electric oven installed!)

Seeline · 24/10/2019 21:03

We did the same. You need heavy duty electric cables. Get an electrician in.

PigletJohn · 24/10/2019 21:34

An electric cooker needs a dedicated electric circuit (I assume when you say "oven" you mean "cooker?")

Many houses already have such a circuit. There will be an unusually large switch on the wall, and an unusually large connection point probably behind the cooker, and your consumer unit will have a breaker (that should be) marked "ccoker" and usually rated around 32A

If you don't already have such a circuit, you won't be able to connect an electric cooker (or a double oven) until you do.

Only miniature cookers such as you might find in a bedsit can be connected via a 13A plug.

The cable can often be run under the floor or behind kitchen units so it is out of sight.

PigletJohn · 24/10/2019 21:37

p.s.

the delivery crew from the retailer will not be able to install a new circuit. So unless you are getting an electrician to install one before the cooker arrives, cancel your payment for the retailer's connection.

MarieG10 · 24/10/2019 22:21

I wouldn't like to contradict @PigletJohn but I had a new AEG double oven installed in a new extension with all new electrics. I recall it is rated at 5.8kw and didn't need its own dedicated circuit, but did have to be hard wired. However, the induction hob definitely did need its own dedicated circuit. Suggest you check the rating of what you want to buy and confirm with an electrician

PigletJohn · 24/10/2019 22:27

do you mean it was connected to a socket circuit, such as a ring?

HammerToFall · 24/10/2019 22:34

My husband is an electrical engineer and he said it needs its own isolator.

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