Swapping cookers - wire difference

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Hi everyone!

I’m swapping two cookers as I’ve moved house and I want to keep the cooker from my old home (£1600 Miele).

Pictures attached are to install a cooker that had a plug on it and was plugged into a mains socket. I have cut the plug off and stripped the wires ready to attach to the cooker wire from the wall using a junction box.

However, as you can see the wires are different thicknesses. Is this okay to do?

And of course on the other end, I will be doing the opposite: attaching a plug to my Miele cooker wires which will be a thicker wire going into a plug.

Any help much appreciated, for context I have done lots of little electrical jobs at home as well as general building work. I know that doesn’t make me an electrician but what I am saying is I will follow clear instruction!

 

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Which oven do you have?

I am not an electrician, but I can't see anything wrong with you hard wiring in the cable. If it makes life easier, you could take the existing wiring and run that into a back box and socket (assuming that there is sufficient space behind the oven).

 

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Ovens that come with plugs take at most 13A. Ovens that come without plugs typically take up to 16A. You mustn’t connect a 13A plug to an oven that may take 16A.

Please post in the Electrics forum.