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Yeah, I hear ya. This is the 3rd Hotpoint in 12mths. :shock: As regards notifying, the guy who did the RCBO swap for me is an electrician by trade, but as he did the job as a favour (knew him from various site work weve been on), I gave him some beers and a tip of the hat. Nuff said I...

Well, its done. Electrcian has been and gone. Swapped the 40a for the 16a. AFAIK, and according to the MI (well what hotpoint told me over the phone today) the oven should be on 16a....this was confirmed via one of their technical guys. And yeah, its stooopid that an oven doesnt have a...

Thanks for the replies guys. Yeah, I have spent some time on this - basically just wanted it to be correct and safe. I get you when you say about other leccy ovens on 32a running fine - probably alot of blarney from Hotpoint but I cant ignore their instructions really....even though it...

Yep. my oven is a built under single (built into standard oven housing under the worktop as pictured earlier) Cable is 6mm from CU to the 45a Isolator switch which is well within 2m of the oven itself. Then there is 6mm cable FROM the isolator as the load cable to the connection plate behind...

When you say heat resitant flex, do you mean something other than normal 6mm t&e? - can you get 6mm HR flex? - edit. just found that yes 6mm is available in 3 core flex. WIll check my local shed. Thanks.

He did say that there was some kind of "kit" that should have arrived at the same time as the oven. I had made my wishes quite clear to Hotpoint before delivery - basically that I wanted it hardwired in 6mm to save me having to fork out £100+ on changing the RCBO. Thats what I took from this...

OK. An update on things here. The Hotpoint guys collected the old oven today and left my nice new shiny one. Great. Then the engineer came to install it to my hardwire point that was added as per the previous posts. I said to him, I have a 40a RCBO on my CU and have been told that the...

Well, i kinda thought the hob wouldnt be easily removed (actually it would as it has an inline gas stopcock within the same oven housing - a few screws, a spanner and she's out lol) and i tried to plan the cooker connection plate so that the flex that comes from the rear of the oven was as close...

Thank you very much. I will consult the MI's and either get the correct size RCBO and have my eletrician fit it (im not messing with the CU!) - as Hotpoint are coming to install the oven, I doubt that they will remove their own flex and wire it with 6mm.....this probably would void warranty but...

Oh, and btw..... This shows where the existing unswitched double is located. I (with your advices) change this to a FCU for the gas hob which will be wired into it on a 3a fuse. You can just make out that I have a 45a cooker control switch to the right of the oven at worktop height...

Sorry for my bad explanations - its been a long day! So just to recap. (apart from my untidy wiring lol :oops: ) the only thing I need be concerned about is wether or not the oven is wired in using the manufacturers supplied flex. I am assuming that if it is, I will have to change the RCBO...

My bad typing - I meant that the supply to the FCU would be in 6mm for consistency. The hob itself would be wired into the FCU via its own flex, which i believe is indeed 1mm.

Do you mean one of these: //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1207350#1207350 (about half way down the page)????? If so, I dont see the point in doing that. It is, in principal, the same as what I have done is it not? - by using one of these...

two load outlets to the left, supply to the right. the load outlet wired in is currently to a unswitched double socket - change to 3a FCU soon?

So, are we saying that my current RCBO is fine as long as the oven itself is connected in 6mm (by replacing the manufacturers flex and connecting one end to the oven termnal and the other endto the empty load on the dual cooker connection plate)???? If the manufacturer flex is retained and...

Best way to describe this! I have ammended the radial today. As you can see from the pic, I have installed a dual cooker connection plate. The right side cable is the supply from the load side of the 45a Cooker control switch. (located at worktop level to the right of my hob) The left side...

Using a Click PRW217 Dual cooker connection plate 45a

new cooker