Advice on recent Electric Oven installation

[spaceysmith]

Hi all,

I've recently had an oven installed by AO and afterwards I noticed in the installation instructions that the electrical connection needed to be in a certain position, given the depth of the oven and position I became concerned that the back plate or cables may burn through.

They came back to do a connection check and they advised it should be fine and that there was 2cm gap to the wall. And I was fine with that but has started concerning me again.

I've managed to get a picture of the underneath which shows the the two electrical connections, one for the oven and one for the hob.

I'm still deciding whether to have the oven replaced with one that has less depth, but was hoping if someone could answer on here please on what the worst case scenario would be if it did melt through the cables? Would it trip the fuses? The oven is on RCD and the hob is on it's own fuse switch. Is there a chance of electric shock?

Thanks

 

[oscar21]

I'm sure it will be fine, ovens are hot on the inside, not the outside generally.

A few years ago I pulled out a tumble dryer and expected to find it plugged in behind as there wasn't a socket in either adjacent cupboard, the socket was there as I thought but nothing was plugged into it. After a bit of head scratching I realised that the plug had melted to the back of the dryer.