Recent content by borzoi

My neighbour had a good pair of pliers and the confidence to use a bit of brute force! The cooker itself needed a particular star screwdriver head.

We have now traced and fixed the problem. It was a loose neutral wire within the control unit. Once re-attached and the cooker re-connected all seemed to work fine. My great thanks to all who posted here - the advice was very useful and it helped me understand the correct layout and...

A slight delay getting the photo together. It is attached but of poor quality - the light was poor. Text written on it is as follows: Things to try: (1) Table lamp or kettle in socket next to cooker. (2) The electrican suggested 'borrowing' a known working cooker and trying it out on...

Thank you for the replies. It will be another day before I can get photos of the offending RCD. Summarising: Things to try: (1) Table lamp or kettle in socket next to cooker. (2) The electrican suggested 'borrowing' a known working cooker and trying it out on the cooker circuit...

That was quick! There is a specific RCD for the cooker circuit. The cooker circuit includes a socket as well as the hard-wired cooker part - a small appliance such as a phone charger does not trip the RCD when connected to the socket. The main theory is then that we have a neutral...

Some advice please. We have a persistent problem where the cooker circuit RCD trips consistently in the Consumer Unit. The trigger is when anything on the new cooker is switched on - even just an oven light. No other circuits in the house seem to have this problem and it occurs when...