New Cooker install

[steve447]

Hi all..
A friend at work says he is looking to get a new cooker, i know he currently has a hardwired cooker, and has a 4 way rewirable wylex board.
I dont know what size fuse he currently has on the cooker circuit.but i presume its a 30A or 45A.
He said he had had a quote from Comet for installation of the cooker for £90.
If the oven he is looking at could be fed from a 13amp plug, would the hob need to be hardwired?
I assume that this is the case.

What he asked me was, what would the install comprise of ?
I suspect the cooker switch could be replaced with a cooker switch with a socket, so the hob could be fed from the cooker switch and the oven plugging in to the socket.

Also I know this falls under part p, so what certification should he expect?
By doing the above, if thats what they will do, is this not considered altering the circuit therefore needing a RCD?

Thanks in advance..
Steve

 

[Rockingit]

What you'll probably find is that it's based on a like-for-like, so Comet make an assumption that all they have to do is come along and unwire one, wire in the new in exactly the same way. If it was in two parts, such as oven/hob separates my hunch is that they'd just wire them both into the same old CC outlet plate - which is fine so long as the circuit supplying it is robust enough and protected properly.

 

[Deleted member 19807]

as above, if just swapping over than part P won't come in to it.

£90 sounds a bit steep to me.

hobs tend to be hard wired as they can draw a lot of current, ovens can be hardwired with the hob or supplied from a socket.