oven and hub switch optional?

[ronoc]

Hello there.
I recently had a new kitchen installed. There is a large switch that lights up when switched on above the oven and hob. I thought this switch had to be on for the oven or hob to work. However the oven and hob work if this switch is off or on, it seems to make no difference at all. I asked the installers and they said that due to new regulations the switch has to be now 'optional'.
Can this be true?

Thanks for any help.
Cheers

 

[driverman]

Simple: Get them back to sort it.

 

[guest119]

Is the switch in original position.
Is it a gas hob with electric under oven?

 

[ronoc]

It is an electric oven and hob.
They had to move the switch as I have move the kitchen to another a wall. So it is a whole new install.

 

[Octopus]

Isolation within 2 meters.

 

[driverman]

Errr , possibly 3 x cables at the switch. 1 x feed, 1 x oven, 1 x hob. Possibly wrong connections made within the wall switch.
Check if either appliance actually switches "off" with the wall switch in the OFF and ON positions( ignore neon light if one used)
I got sneaky feeling that only one appliance will be operated by the wall switch. Possibly the oven.

 

[driverman]

Just another thought........Did you get any certificates from them for the electrical work carried out? Minor work certificate?

 

[Amp David]

Its not switching your sower is it?

 

[Rockingit]

Sounds like a BS excuse for a BS job to me. Forgetting the issue of the neon, if a switch doesn't switch then it's not a switch and might just as well be a lump of jam.

 

[Redvanman]

I smell cow###t looks like someone's telling porkies pal, new regs for switching ???

 

[guest119]

Then they are bil5hitting you mate, get them back.
And btw the switch should be to the side of the hob, not above it where you need th reach over it to switch off

 

[GLENNSPARK]

get these bellends back to sort out their nonsense.....and as has been said here already....dont put up with any gobsh*te of em either....

 

[trev]

Glenn you're gonna have to stop beating about the bush mate

 

[ferg]

Don't bother getting them to come back.
It sounds like the installer was a cowboy and fed you a line of bull manure.
Get an electrician to come and check it out.
If you can, get one by recommendation. If not get a local niceic or select registered electrician.

 

[Engineer54]

Don't bother getting them to come back.
It sounds like the installer was a cowboy and fed you a line of bull manure.
Get an electrician to come and check it out.
If you can, get one by recommendation. If not get a local niceic or select registered electrician.

And that would solve the problem?? NICEIC, .... I think NOT!! Most of them will be your Electrical Trainee brigade!!

These day's you can only go by reputation and recommendation from trusted sources!!