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Our kitchen is nearly ready to receive full complement of new unit and new electric cooker (Stoves 600EI): double electric oven and induction hob. The shop we're buying this from are recommending a 40amp fuse. I asked today our electrician who just rewired the kitchen including big fat cooker...

Thanks for all this information and help. The mis-wired sockets were reconnected by our decorator/handyman and were definitely done wrong with live and neutral swapped over. New thread coming up about induction cooker and fuse.

Just one last question if I may: When disconnecting/reconnecting my wall sockets and the wires within, I noticed that all the double sockets on the wall were connected with (going left to right) the yellow & green wires, then blue then brown. But one socket was done differently: blue, brown...

Thanks for all the replies. I'm now sorted, power and boiler back on. I "just" put back some of the plates/sockets, most importantly the 2 closest to the boiler. The breaker which had tripped earlier in the afternoon controls a different room and had a portable radio and our fishtank...

Hello, First post on here so I must be after some help... ;) First of all, my knowledge of DYI and electrics is fairly basic. Our house was rewired 2 years ago and a new Wylex consumer unit fitted (seems that it comes with MCB's rather than fuses). Anyway, recently big project started for...