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I have a very ugly and large cooker socket above my gas cooker. It has a single plug point which my cooker is plugged into for the ignition/timer. It is in the way of having a splashback installed. How easy would this be to move a few inches to the right and replaced with something a bit more streamlined? Could the cooker just be plugged into a normal socket?Cooker Plug socket IMG_20191110_084727 - EletriciansForums.net
 
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This looks to be a surface mounted cooker isolator with socket, but it is hard to see if the cable is also surface, or buried in the wall?

If the supply is buried in the wall, then it is a fair bit of work to move it, and it might simply be better to have this disconnected and plug the ignition in somewhere else.

An isolator like this should not normally be directly above the cooker, it would not meet regs to be done like this now. It is kind of difficult to turn off when there is a blazing chip pan below it.
 
This looks to be a surface mounted cooker isolator with socket, but it is hard to see if the cable is also surface, or buried in the wall?

If the supply is buried in the wall, then it is a fair bit of work to move it, and it might simply be better to have this disconnected and plug the ignition in somewhere else.

An isolator like this should not normally be directly above the cooker, it would not meet regs to be done like this now. It is kind of difficult to turn off when there is a blazing chip pan below it.
Thank you for the reply.
The cable is buried in the wall, but about 600mm underneath the socket it comes out the wall, and terminates into a circular unit, which has just been left hanging. A definite bodge job by someone in the past thats for sure.
 

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