Hello
First things first - I know there are some other threads on this, but I simply don't understand the replies. My knowledge of anything to do with DIY or electrics ends at wiring a plug.
Anyway...
Just put a new oven in (actually, a newish one from my old house where it worked fine). Anyway, I wired up a regular cable with a 13A fuse to it and plugged it into the socket that sits under the work surface that the previous oven was plugged into, and it trips my circuit breaker as soon as turn it on.
Here's where I get technical...
It trips a black switch with a yellow test button next to it.
It appears that this is some master switch for the two "socket" switches next to it - all the socket powered devices in the house go off but the lights stay on. There's no separate switch labelled "oven" or anything like that. Anyway, I'm guessing that an electric oven socket under the worktop must just be connected to the general socket circuit and the oven just draws way too much current.
Suffice it to say, I'm going to get a proper electrician in to sort it out (anyone know a good one - i.e. cheap - in the Streatham area of London?) but I don't want to get ripped off by appearing too clueless!!
Any advice as to how big a job it is to put the oven on its own circuit (there are spare places on the breaker) if, indeed, that is what is required?
Thanks in advance and sorry for being so clueless.
First things first - I know there are some other threads on this, but I simply don't understand the replies. My knowledge of anything to do with DIY or electrics ends at wiring a plug.
Anyway...
Just put a new oven in (actually, a newish one from my old house where it worked fine). Anyway, I wired up a regular cable with a 13A fuse to it and plugged it into the socket that sits under the work surface that the previous oven was plugged into, and it trips my circuit breaker as soon as turn it on.
Here's where I get technical...
It trips a black switch with a yellow test button next to it.
It appears that this is some master switch for the two "socket" switches next to it - all the socket powered devices in the house go off but the lights stay on. There's no separate switch labelled "oven" or anything like that. Anyway, I'm guessing that an electric oven socket under the worktop must just be connected to the general socket circuit and the oven just draws way too much current.
Suffice it to say, I'm going to get a proper electrician in to sort it out (anyone know a good one - i.e. cheap - in the Streatham area of London?) but I don't want to get ripped off by appearing too clueless!!
Any advice as to how big a job it is to put the oven on its own circuit (there are spare places on the breaker) if, indeed, that is what is required?
Thanks in advance and sorry for being so clueless.