Please can anyone out there help?!
We need to buy ourselves a new electric oven (one of those ovens that fit under the kitchen units and has a separate hob - ours is gas) which is to replace our recently deceased model. The old oven has an ordinary 3 pin plug which simply plugs into a socket behind the oven, under the units, which uses the main electricity circuit of the house.
The chap selling the new oven advised us that all electric ovens now need a dedicated connection (which we don't have!) and must be installed by a qualified engineer.
However, a salesman in another retail outlet advised that any electric oven up to 3kw would be ok fitted with a 3 pin 13 amp plug and could be connected to the usual house circuit - just like our old oven. We could simply pick an oven "off the shelf", take it home and plug it in.
Confused??? You bet we are!
Can anybody out there please shed any light on this and help to make sure we don't do anything stupid?
Many thanks.
We need to buy ourselves a new electric oven (one of those ovens that fit under the kitchen units and has a separate hob - ours is gas) which is to replace our recently deceased model. The old oven has an ordinary 3 pin plug which simply plugs into a socket behind the oven, under the units, which uses the main electricity circuit of the house.
The chap selling the new oven advised us that all electric ovens now need a dedicated connection (which we don't have!) and must be installed by a qualified engineer.
However, a salesman in another retail outlet advised that any electric oven up to 3kw would be ok fitted with a 3 pin 13 amp plug and could be connected to the usual house circuit - just like our old oven. We could simply pick an oven "off the shelf", take it home and plug it in.
Confused??? You bet we are!
Can anybody out there please shed any light on this and help to make sure we don't do anything stupid?
Many thanks.