Recent content by littlemiss2011

Great, thank you everyone for your help, even though I am sure this thread doesn't make sense :oops: This is my first home so I am very new to all this.

Sorry.. as usual I wasn't very clear! The oven only turns off when I turn off the cooker switch on the fuse box. It stays on when I switch the one for the switches off. The single socket goes off with all the other sockets when turned off at the fuse box but stays on when I turn the...

The light on the switch for the socket goes off when I switch off the switch on the fuse box that is for all the kitchen switches. If I turn off the switch on the fuse box for the cooker, only the cooker switches off.

The switch turns off when I trip the switch for the kitchen switches

Im pretty sure it started that way :oops: Anyway does this make a difference to being able to use the other one as 'normal'?

Ok... that is the socket the electrician changed. Can I use the other though?

Sorry not a good pic but best I can get. Socket on the left is what is being used for the oven, the one on the right is the one I would like to use for the dishwasher.

It's a dual fuel cooker. Gas hob and 2x electric ovens

are you sure they are actually 3-pin sockets? can you see the the 3 pin holes? Definitely 3 pin socket!

Sorry I missed the first response ( am on my phone!) It is a freestanding cooker that has it's own socket. There is another separate single socket behind where the oven is. The person that fitted the oven was from a local electrical company. Hope that helps a bit! :)

Well they said they couldn't just plug it in??! Don't know if it makes a difference that it's a 'range', style oven? It has the usual big red switch on the wall to turn it on and off. The other switch which I'm hoping to use for the dishwasher also has a switch on the wall but it is just a...

Hi, I apologise now if I am about to ask a really dumb question here but here goes...! I have 2x 3pin sockets situated behind my oven. 1 of them is currently used for my oven, but when it was fitted the electrician couldn't just plug the oven in, they had to 'hard wire' it into the socket...