Do you all use cooker connection plates?

Gavin John Hyde · Nov 3, 2018

Asked to connect a cooker up today, it is to an existing install, removed temporarily to allow new base units to be fitted.
Connected it back up. however it was connected direct to isolator switch. no connection plate on the wall. cable comes down in wall, then out behind cupboard and then connects up to the built in cooker, circuit rcd protected.
Never actually given it much thought myself until today. just got me thinking. See plenty of them connected direct in this way.
Is there a regulation that actually mandates the use of connection plates or is it just good practice?

Octopus · Nov 3, 2018

If it’s a new install, I tend to place the isolator in the adjacent cupboard and use HR flex to the cooker

2 weeks ago I refused to reconnect a cooker and hob where the hob was used as the link ....and it had used twin and earth.....

MJPD29 · Nov 3, 2018

I do, but Its generally for ease when connecting a cooker and hob. Can't see anything wrong with connecting to the isolator

Risteard · Nov 4, 2018

Across the border it's not usual for cooker connection units to be used, with either them wired straight in or an OBO box or something similar behind it.

Personally I always use a cooker connection unit and consider it rough not to.

JK-Electrical · Nov 4, 2018

Risteard said:
Personally I always use a cooker connection unit and consider it rough not to.

Amen.

123 · Nov 4, 2018

For ease of installation I always use the Click Dual Cooker Connection Plate.

Toneyz · Nov 4, 2018

123 said:
For ease of installation I always use the Click Dual Cooker Connection Plate.
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If it was one electrical accessory that has been designed with electricians in mind it is this. I remember when I was doing house bashing (new houses ) some of the electricians used to leave tails out of the walls for the split oven wasn't my preference for the reason if the oven had to be changed there would be a live tail hanging there.