Fitting new oven and hob

[Davek73]

I've just fitted new kitchen and looking to fit new oven and hob the oven comes with plug fitted and hob needs wired in, the wires was connected to 45a cooker control unit and a double socket coming off that it was a gas hob fitted aswell what's the best way to get connected up again the wires are under the house at the moment

 

[Iggifer]

I'm not really sure what you have, what is there already, or the specs of your new hob.

It sounds like you might already have what you need, but your post is not clear

 

[Davek73]

Just now I have 45a cooker control unit with socket and a double socket coming off that

 

[Iggifer]

so this cooker switch just feeds a double socket? nothing else? what size cable is there? What size breaker is it fed from? Anything else on the breaker? What size is your new hob? in kW

 

[Davek73]

Yes I have cooker switch with double socket coming off that,10mm,32mcb and hob says max 6kw

 

[Iggifer]

I very much doubt you have 10mm into a twin socket. It would also be unlikely to have 10mm on a 32A breaker (although not unheard of).

You need to check the size of the cable feeding the twin socket, is it a surface socket or flush to the wall?

 

[EFLImpudence]

You will have to fit a dual outlet cooker connector and connect both, or

a single cooker outlet and single socket.

Either way, a new back box will need to be fitted - a single or a dual (not a double that is there now).

 

[Davek73]

This is what I had

 

[Iggifer]

Was that all underneath the hob? if so, put it back, change that twin socket for a single box and cooker connection unit, put the hob in that and job done.

And that's not 10mm, maybe 6mm, hard to tell

 

[Davek73]

Ok so I don't need the cooker socket and the double socket in picture and I need to replace with single cooker outlet and a single socket

 

[tightasfcuk]

ok heres how i would do it

the cooker switch with socket up where the tiling is from that 6mm cable to cooker outlet (to connect hob)

then a single socket if oven has plug, if not fit a flex outlet just incase your hob doesnt fit in because of surface box etc

if you had a gas hob there should already have been something to connect the ignition generator(spark)

mick

 

[Davek73]

So I will have 3 boxes so I take the wires from fuse box to cooker switch and socket then feed from there to cooker outlet then feed from there to single socket using 6mm

 

[tightasfcuk]

board to cooker switch 6mm
cooker switch to cooker outlet 6mm
cooker outlet to unswiched socket or flex outlet can be done in 1.5mm as that is probably what is on your oven

 

[Davek73]

Ok thanks for the replies will get this sorted in the morning

 

[endecotp]

cooker outlet to unswiched socket or flex outlet can be done in 1.5mm

So what size fuse / MCB is protecting that 1.5mm wire?