Moving a double oven

[dougied]

I am moving my kitchen temporarily as the builders are propping through the middle of it. I have an ancient neff double oven and it has no info on wattage etc. It currently has an on/off switch to the terminal with the oven cable in. Can I link the oven cable to a 13 amp plug and plug it in (and not use both ovens at the same time) - or get a longer bit of cable and run it 5 metres from the isolator switch as a very temporary measure?

 

[ColJack]

what's the duration of the building work?

do you really need an oven if it's only for a couple of weeks?

takeaways deliver, and there's always a pub doing carveries for your sunday dinner.. and now's a good time to start on those salads to lose the extra christmas pounds..

 

[dougied]

Build work is about three months so takeaways not so good and lost our gas supply aswell so oven will be a must.

 

[ColJack]

get yourself a microwave/ oven/ grill gombi thing and use that..

my kitchen has been dismantled and "temporarily" set up in the spare room now for nearly 10 months... does me fine...

 

[JohnD]

a double oven (without hob) usually has a load of about 20Amps so is not safe on a 13A plug. However if you only ever use one oven at a time you should be OK

An electric hob (or cooker) must never be connected via a plug.

 

[Steve]

a double oven (without hob) usually has a load of about 20Amps so is not safe on a 13A plug. However if you only ever use one oven at a time you should be OK

An electric hob (or cooker) must never be connected via a plug.

Sorry, John, you're contradicting yourself. Surely in the same way as your double oven example, an electric hob could be connected via a 13a plug, as long as only 2 rings are used. Take two knobs off for safety.

 

[ColJack]

here ya go...

problem solved...