Built in ovens

[DancingLions]

Hi. I'm thinking of buying a plug in oven and the ones I'm looking at generally go in as a built in one. I've not had a built in one before and am planning on putting it in where my old freestanding cooker was. I've already filled in the work top in that area so the cooker would go in underneath on some sort of platform, if that makes sense! Is there anything in particular I need to do/prepare? Or can I just slide it in and use it? TIA.

Built in ovens are designed to fit into a kitchen cabinet. You can buy a standard one without a door from anywhere and slide it into the gap under the worksurface that you have fitted

You need an oven housing unit and a seperate outlet from your meter cupboard. It’s not like plugging in a toaster!

I'm specifically going for one that has a 13amp plug and less than 3000 watts which I believe is the limit for plug in ones.

But you still need the right shape cabinet for it to fit into and mount properly. They have no 'outside' and won't sit flat inside a normal cabinet.

Yes, I'm browsing cabinets now as suggested by Geneticsbunny.

I did something similar for a niece. I ended up screwing horizontal pieces of wood (2x2) to the cabinet on either side so the new oven had something to sit on, - best to put the screws so that the heads are in the cabinets then screwed into the wood - screws into chipboard can easily pull out and those bits of wood need to take the weight of the oven and an enormous "Mumsnet Chicken", a piece vertically on each side to narrow the gap gave me something to secure the oven in place, then some mdf to make a kickboard. If it's a fan oven, you need a ventilation grill in the kickboard so some air can get in, otherwise it's a sealed box.

Thanks, that's really helpful 😊