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Hello all, thanks for checking out this post.

I’m just after a bit advice today. I’ve got a very limited knowledge of electrical installation from a couple of C&G courses I completed after leaving school. I didn’t pursue that career and it’s been a good 7 years so I think we can write that knowledge off.

We’re looking to upgrade our dated gas cooker to an all electric one and I just wanted to seek a bit of advice before Currys try and sell me a service I may not need.

I will attach the relevant pictures to help explain myself.

So our current cooker is plugged into a socket next to a big red cooker switch but this switch doesn’t actually do anything. There is also a blank single faceplate behind the cooker. Am I correct in assuming that our cooker, at the moment, is just plugged into a standard plug socket and that big red switch controls power to the blank faceplate currently not in use?

As you can see in the pictures there is a dedicated 32a breaker in the fuse board for the cooker.

I suppose my question is: is it as simple as hard wiring the new unit into that faceplate behind the cooker and capping off the old gas line?

Here’s the unit we’re looking at installing if you need specifications:

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/house...55-cm-electric-cooker-black-10187041-pdt.html

Thanks again.
 

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Yes, looks to be as simple as that. Obviously making sure to fit the correct size and type of cable from the outlet plate to the cooker. And making sure the cable is secured in the outlet plate by the cable grip.
The cooker instruction book often has this information.
 
agree. may jus be a simple case of hard wiring new cooker into cooker outlet that comes off the 45A switch.
 
Thanks very much for the advice! It seems odd to me that my current gas cooker is just plugged into a standard socket, is that safe? Do you think they installed a cooker outlet as well as a gas line to give you options in the future or should my current cooker be hardwired in too?

Thanks.
 
Thanks very much for the advice! It seems odd to me that my current gas cooker is just plugged into a standard socket, is that safe? Do you think they installed a cooker outlet as well as a gas line to give you options in the future or should my current cooker be hardwired in too?

Thanks.
If your current gas cooker has a gas oven... then the electrical supply will be for just lights/ignition.. so that's very low power and will be fine on a standard 13A plug top. Indeed, most single cavity electric ovens that I've seen are also fine on a 13A plug top too (read MIs though). It's only higher powered appliances that will need to be hardwired.

That lead creeping out of the back of the cooker and snaking up to the socket is a different matter though...
 
If your current gas cooker has a gas oven... then the electrical supply will be for just lights/ignition.. so that's very low power and will be fine on a standard 13A plug top. Indeed, most single cavity electric ovens that I've seen are also fine on a 13A plug top too (read MIs though). It's only higher powered appliances that will need to be hardwired.

That lead creeping out of the back of the cooker and snaking up to the socket is a different matter though...
Yeah there’s a few things around the house which look like they’ve been bodged to be honest.

Thanks for the help everyone I’m satisfied with what has to be done. Through google searches I’ve found that you need a gas safe engineer to do the capping of the gas line so don’t fancy invalidating my house insurance on that one.

Thanks again.
 

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