Hi,
We are having our kitchen gutted an replaced in a couple of weeks and as a part of that we are having a range cooker installed. This means we need to have 30A cooker switch installed as the current built in cooker is just using a 13A socket.
Idealy I would like an electrician to do the job but firstly getting hold of one is tricky and secondly I am a bit concerned that I am going to get hit with unnecessary work.
Some background. Our house is a typical 1930s semi. We have not done anything substantial with the wiring since we moved in 10 years ago. For some odd reason we have two consumer units in the house. Most of the house is connected to a more modern consumer unit but for some reason the wiring on one side of the kitchen is wired up to an older consumer unit located in the larder.
I have a couple of electricians coming around tomorrow (hopefuly) and I want to be prepared so that I know what does and what does not need to be done. One of the electricians was telling me on the phone that he would need to give a certificate for the work and so he would need to make sure the wiring in the house is safe. Now this is where I am getting a bit worried. For the sake of just installing the cooker switch we end up having to do a load of other work.
Now one thing I would be happy for them to do is remove the old consumer unit and connect everything up to the one unit. But besides that what is the likelyhood they are going to say we need to rewire the house? Is there something I can look for to determine if the wiring is safe?
If it comes to it how much work would be involved in wiring up the cooker swicth myself? Is there regulations that mean I can't do this?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Andy
We are having our kitchen gutted an replaced in a couple of weeks and as a part of that we are having a range cooker installed. This means we need to have 30A cooker switch installed as the current built in cooker is just using a 13A socket.
Idealy I would like an electrician to do the job but firstly getting hold of one is tricky and secondly I am a bit concerned that I am going to get hit with unnecessary work.
Some background. Our house is a typical 1930s semi. We have not done anything substantial with the wiring since we moved in 10 years ago. For some odd reason we have two consumer units in the house. Most of the house is connected to a more modern consumer unit but for some reason the wiring on one side of the kitchen is wired up to an older consumer unit located in the larder.
I have a couple of electricians coming around tomorrow (hopefuly) and I want to be prepared so that I know what does and what does not need to be done. One of the electricians was telling me on the phone that he would need to give a certificate for the work and so he would need to make sure the wiring in the house is safe. Now this is where I am getting a bit worried. For the sake of just installing the cooker switch we end up having to do a load of other work.
Now one thing I would be happy for them to do is remove the old consumer unit and connect everything up to the one unit. But besides that what is the likelyhood they are going to say we need to rewire the house? Is there something I can look for to determine if the wiring is safe?
If it comes to it how much work would be involved in wiring up the cooker swicth myself? Is there regulations that mean I can't do this?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Andy