MK fuse board modification question

[podcmd]

Hi All,
I have just joined the forum to ask the following question and hopefully get a way forward.
So i bought this electric cooker: Zanussi | Cooking | Cookers | ZCV665MX

Then realised there was no electric cooker unit in my kitchen. So it would need a new circuit added to my fuse board.

I have attached pictures of my board. Anyone know where i can get parts to make this work. Extend the bus bar section, add MCB, then do the wiring..

Electrician has quoted £350 for a new board and installation of both that and cooker. I have bought the materials myself for the cooker and was just wanting the installation to save some money.

Thanks for all help

 

[MDJ]

Circuit 1 in that DB could be an old cooker supply, there may be a socket in the kitchen with a 6mm2 in it if he knows where to look, could also be a shower of course, but I have my suspicions a cooker supply is already there, hmm.

 

[uksparks]

Talking of ovens, I just wired in my patents new oven today, it arrived this morning, bloody expensive £1000 for this NEFF oven, looks mint. Interestingly the installation instruction book doesn't tell you how much power it draws or even what size cable to connect it to which I thought was strange.

obviously I know what size cable but was surprised it didn't say. Anyway, changed the old junction box behind oven for new cooker outlet, wired cooker in, pushed back and it needed another blooming half inch grrrr... So started again, moved the connection unit out the way then the damn terminal fractured (MK) and then I had to go to screwfix (nearest place) to get another.

a simple job turned In to a pain!

 

[Clive P]

Hi,

Looking back to what MDJ said, I checked the price of the cooker; a new CU is half the price. No contest there.

Regards.

 

[Geordie Spark]

what a waste. you could have bought my spare TV for £50.

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Aye, but by the time you factor-in the cost of installing the gas point to power it it's not such a bargain.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Talking of ovens, I just wired in my patents new oven today, it arrived this morning, bloody expensive £1000 for this NEFF oven, looks mint. Interestingly the installation instruction book doesn't tell you how much power it draws or even what size cable to connect it to which I thought was strange.

obviously I know what size cable but was surprised it didn't say. Anyway, changed the old junction box behind oven for new cooker outlet, wired cooker in, pushed back and it needed another blooming half inch grrrr... So started again, moved the connection unit out the way then the damn terminal fractured (MK) and then I had to go to screwfix (nearest place) to get another.

a simple job turned In to a pain!

These few words tell me instantly that you're still a youngster.

As you "get on a bit" you will come to realise that there is no such thing as a "simple job" and they are all pains to a greater or lesser degree !!!!

 

[Silly Sausage]

These few words tell me instantly that you're still a youngster.

As you "get on a bit" you will come to realise that there is no such thing as a "simple job" and they are all pains to a greater or lesser degree !!!!

And those few words explain why I will never become a Domestic Electrician!

 

[Geordie Spark]

The "stupid" thing about this type of post is that if the OP does go ahead and have a new board fitted, plus bonding and a cooker circuit done - all properly not only will they have a nice shiny new cooker but a far safer home too!

Aye, but the nice shiny and bright new cooker is highly visible to Mrs Jones from next door.

The bits that make the "far safer home" are not.

 

[telectrix]

Aye, but by the time you factor-in the cost of installing the gas point to power it it's not such a bargain.

shame on you. anyone knows it's steam powered.

 

[R G]

What makes me laugh or infact not laugh at all actually is the OP has spent a fortune on an oven but won't spend 350 quid to have it working safely, I just give up with the trade at the moment I really do.

True right , they would sooner spend money to connect a bloody fan to a shower than have decent circuit protection or on some silly gizmo off the shopping channels,,,

 

[mechelec]

I think the new MK MCBs are different dimensions to the old ones, they used to do a BB extension link that was used to convert the new ones to fit old boards.

 

[podcmd]

Thanks for the replies, new board it is. I'm like any bloke, something nice and shiny, on a january discount sale in currys..can't refuse. I'm lucky i only walked out with a cooker, the UHD TV was calling my name. Plus didn't even think about the connection until it got delivered. We live and learn, even you "electrician arms members" i'm sure!

 

[Geordie Spark]

shame on you. anyone knows it's steam powered.

Aye, but ye need to burn the gas to boil the water to make the steam ...... or are you on meths??

 

[sparkyphil1]

Hi All,
I have just joined the forum to ask the following question and hopefully get a way forward.
So i bought this electric cooker: Zanussi | Cooking | Cookers | ZCV665MX

Then realised there was no electric cooker unit in my kitchen. So it would need a new circuit added to my fuse board.

I have attached pictures of my board. Anyone know where i can get parts to make this work. Extend the bus bar section, add MCB, then do the wiring..

Electrician has quoted £350 for a new board and installation of both that and cooker. I have bought the materials myself for the cooker and was just wanting the installation to save some money.

Thanks for all helpView attachment 22303View attachment 22304

Hi you have a obsolete mk sentry board mk used to make a retrofit kit to add a MCB not sure if there is any on eBay? Not being funny the price you were quoted is a good one so if no luck bite the bullet and get it changed those main rcds on the old sentry's do go wrong and then you will have to get it changed asap.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

if its about the dough then an add on board would be the way...

that electrician that came round & quoted could obviously smell something a cookin in your wallet...

 

[DPG]

Circuit 1 in that DB could be an old cooker supply, there may be a socket in the kitchen with a 6mm2 in it if he knows where to look, could also be a shower of course, but I have my suspicions a cooker supply is already there, hmm.

This is what they did when they built the houses on my estate (1970s). There is a 6mm fed to the kitchen, but it only feeds a single 13A socket as they presumably didn't want the expense of fitting a cooker isolator. Plus not many people had electric cookers back then I suppose. Daz