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HatBeard

anyone any good with oven regs?

we're due to move into a new rental in a couple of weeks and today I had a quick chance to get in and measure up but I'm really not convinced by the location of the cooker space in the kitchen and our chances of having an installer happily fitting a cooker upon delivery potentially risking hundreds of pounds.

as you can see in attached pic they've put it into the chimney breast and stuck an extractor fan.
there's a double socket on the left below hob height which i assume is normal 13A, and on the right side is what looks like a cooker switch but there's no outlet panel for wiring the cabling into inside the chimney.

the extractor fan is 161cm from the floor so would be fine for the 65cm clearance from a 90cm cooker. the width inside is 70 with just enough space for a 60cm unit to fit in the middle, the rear gas pipe fitting would also make the unit stand 2.5cm away from the rear wall.

things that concern me...
-the side walls above hob height fall within the hot zone of 9cm either side which i'm not sure is ok
-the 13a sockets are not good enough to run all but the shittest electrical oven from
-the cooker switch is above hob height but i assume 9cm outside hot zone and i have no idea how to wire it to the cooker.

i've been hoping to get a cooker installed between our move in date and christmas but it's beginning to feel like i'm going to end up with some 50cm wide piece of shit fitted plug bullshit with solid/ceramic hobs which is useless to cook on when we actually have a budget up to about 600 for something half decent (ideally dual fuel).

any experts on here willing to weigh in?

after a ridiculously long delay the letting agents response to our questions about any having used the cooker location successfully in the past and when it was wired and how was it wired they effectively shrugged their shoulders and threw the EICR at us.

looking at the attached I'm thinking there IS a cooker ring attached to a socket but i'm not sure if the protective device rating on the cooker line of 32 (a) is the max amps it will support (i.e. can I use a 32A cooker on that circuit or will it trip it if we're using all the things at christmas.

regardless it seems i'm stuck not being able to measure the space properly until we move in on 11/12 so i'll have less than 2 weeks to order and install a cooker before everything shuts up shop for christmas.

being able to shop for potential options would help.

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Nef in reply to @HatBeard

Your cooker has its own circuit rated to 32a with a 6mm supply cable, which is on the EICR.
If there’s a cooker switch, it should have a “bullnose” to supply the cooker/whatever, which looks like a light switch with a blank cover on it (and a small gap at the bottom for the cable). A socket however is only rated to 13a. High amperage equipment is designed to be “hard wired” into its circuit rather than have a plug and socket.

Because the cooker has its own circuit, it won’t trip anything else out. They may have had an electric over and a gas hob - and gas hobs need a socket to power the ignition spark.

Do you have any photos?

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HatBeard in reply to @Nef

Do you have any photos?

I forgot to link to previous post which had it attached.

I won't spam it again but you can see it here...
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/16278337/

i think the double socket in the alcove (on left side) was probably where the cooker control outlet was located and like you said was replaced to facilitate a hob (the bit of wood on the left also looks like a remnant of that). there's nothing on the right hand wall inside the chimney (i was sure i'd find one there when we went to measure up).

I've ordered a 30A cooker to be installed on 16th dec from AO, we get the keys on the 11th, will get a sparky in to take a look and if need be fix it before the oven arrives.

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