Hi, My first post and my first electric oven installation.
I've recently moved into a new build flat which had provision for a freestanding cooker, but I've decided I want a built in oven and hob instead.
I've replaced the worktop ready to cut out a hole for the hob and have a carcass prepared to fit the oven in the space between the kitchen units previously intended for the freestanding oven.
But I'm concerned about a couple of overheating issues:
First, I see that the installation instructions on page 16 of the ZYB460X manual (link below) has quite different designs depending on if you mount the oven below a worktop or at chest height.
At chest height you leave a space behind the oven and make a kind of chimney vent up behind the kitchen unit above the oven which goes right up to the top.
It surprises me there's no inlet vent below the oven to give a chimney/convection effect, but that seems to be the design from these instructions, right?
In my case though (fitting the oven below a worktop) no ventilation space appears to be required behind the oven (!) and there's no vent in the upwards direction (!),
but instead a gap of 80-100mm is cut in the back of the bottom carcass face.
I can't see it making much difference temperature wise.
Overall this gives even worse ventilation than the chest height chimney method!
Is this normal practice for built in oven installation despite not appearing to make any sense?
My second concern is whether the wall electrical connection to the oven will be safe from overheating or not.
It's located right behind where the oven will be so it will get very hot.
In fact the back plate of the oven will press against it a little.
The installation instructions indicate that you can expect 100C inside the carcass, but for a freestanding oven this wouldn't happen,
so I'm wondering if the plastic parts they used will be up to the job?
Also, perhaps even the terminal block inside might suffer at in this temperature.
I'll be getting an electrician to do the final connecting (someone else is paying for that!),
but I don't want to find when they turn up that they'll have to make a second visit.
I hope the above makes sense?
If so and you know about this sort of thing I'd really appreciate some advice!
Oven: Zanussi ZYB460X Manual: http://www.electrolux-ui.com/2011/397/203501EN.pdf
Hob: Indesit VIA640C Manual: http://www.indesit.co.uk/_pdf/booklets/02/10/19506596500_IT-FR-UK-DE-SP.pdf
I've recently moved into a new build flat which had provision for a freestanding cooker, but I've decided I want a built in oven and hob instead.
I've replaced the worktop ready to cut out a hole for the hob and have a carcass prepared to fit the oven in the space between the kitchen units previously intended for the freestanding oven.
But I'm concerned about a couple of overheating issues:
First, I see that the installation instructions on page 16 of the ZYB460X manual (link below) has quite different designs depending on if you mount the oven below a worktop or at chest height.
At chest height you leave a space behind the oven and make a kind of chimney vent up behind the kitchen unit above the oven which goes right up to the top.
It surprises me there's no inlet vent below the oven to give a chimney/convection effect, but that seems to be the design from these instructions, right?
In my case though (fitting the oven below a worktop) no ventilation space appears to be required behind the oven (!) and there's no vent in the upwards direction (!),
but instead a gap of 80-100mm is cut in the back of the bottom carcass face.
I can't see it making much difference temperature wise.
Overall this gives even worse ventilation than the chest height chimney method!
Is this normal practice for built in oven installation despite not appearing to make any sense?
My second concern is whether the wall electrical connection to the oven will be safe from overheating or not.
It's located right behind where the oven will be so it will get very hot.
In fact the back plate of the oven will press against it a little.
The installation instructions indicate that you can expect 100C inside the carcass, but for a freestanding oven this wouldn't happen,
so I'm wondering if the plastic parts they used will be up to the job?
Also, perhaps even the terminal block inside might suffer at in this temperature.
I'll be getting an electrician to do the final connecting (someone else is paying for that!),
but I don't want to find when they turn up that they'll have to make a second visit.
I hope the above makes sense?
If so and you know about this sort of thing I'd really appreciate some advice!
Oven: Zanussi ZYB460X Manual: http://www.electrolux-ui.com/2011/397/203501EN.pdf
Hob: Indesit VIA640C Manual: http://www.indesit.co.uk/_pdf/booklets/02/10/19506596500_IT-FR-UK-DE-SP.pdf