wired double oven

[Buck]

Hi all, this is my 1st post here on this forum. i hope some of you guys might be able to help me.
I need to know if i can wire up a double oven to a socket, i will try to explain.
Im in the middle of rebuilding our kitchen so my wife went and bought a double oven that is now going to be housed in a larder unit. the only power sourse is a double socket half way up the wall, ive been told by a couple of pals that i can tap into the socket to feed the double oven obvously i will need to buy the grey heavy duty cable that will go from the oven to the socket is this safe/ or aloud ??
cheers Buck fi scotland xx

 

[Mark.W]

Hi all, this is my 1st post here on this forum. i hope some of you guys might be able to help me.
I need to know if i can wire up a double oven to a socket, i will try to explain.
Im in the middle of rebuilding our kitchen so my wife went and bought a double oven that is now going to be housed in a larder unit. the only power sourse is a double socket half way up the wall, ive been told by a couple of pals that i can tap into the socket to feed the double oven obvously i will need to buy the grey heavy duty cable that will go from the oven to the socket is this safe/ or aloud ??
cheers Buck fi scotland xx

No, I always put cookers/ovens on their own circuit. A cooker/oven would also need an isolation switch, which when wired to a socket (ring main), it will not have! What is the power rating of the cooker?

 

[Hammy]

Hi all, this is my 1st post here on this forum. i hope some of you guys might be able to help me.
I need to know if i can wire up a double oven to a socket, i will try to explain.
Im in the middle of rebuilding our kitchen so my wife went and bought a double oven that is now going to be housed in a larder unit. the only power sourse is a double socket half way up the wall, ive been told by a couple of pals that i can tap into the socket to feed the double oven obvously i will need to buy the grey heavy duty cable that will go from the oven to the socket is this safe/ or aloud ??
cheers Buck fi scotland xx

I would agree with Brightspark in his post. You should be taking at least a 6mm depending how far away the consumer unit is from the cooker. This should be going to a Cooker control unit and then to your double oven. Running a heavy cable from your cooker to the socket wont solve anything. The ring main that you were hoping to tie into would be taking all the load. Depending on the rating of your oven, you may find if your oven is on then anything else used on the ring main may cause tripping. You should definetely be running a new cable through an isolation switch, even a 45 amp double pole switch would be ok. These can be picked up for few quid in any wholesalers or even a B&Q. Hope this helps!

 

[Buck]

Cheers guys for the tips, ive put a socket with the wee red light i think you call it a hard wired socket, a couple of feet away from the double socket that i am going to tap from i was going to hard wire the double oven to this one and have heavy duty grey cable going to the double socket main do you think this would be alright ??

 

[Darkwood]

Your whole situation sounds very risky if not a fire hazard this oven although you dont tell us its rating sounds like it requires its own independant supply i strongly advise you dont attempt what your doing without a qualified person comming and looking at the job with all due respect your lack of know-how in this situation should tell you to get the pro's in family safety doesnt usually hurt too much in the pocket when paying for a right job doing and knowing its safe.

 

[sparks1234]

Your whole situation sounds very risky if not a fire hazard this oven although you dont tell us its rating sounds like it requires its own independant supply i strongly advise you dont attempt what your doing without a qualified person comming and looking at the job with all due respect your lack of know-how in this situation should tell you to get the pro's in family safety doesnt usually hurt too much in the pocket when paying for a right job doing and knowing its safe.

Not forgetting this is in a special location as well, should also be certified and signed off and registered. totally agree with darkwood, leave it to the pro's

 

[plug444]

No one has asked the him the kw rating of the oven. I have a Neff double oven in my kitchen that is under 3kw and came fitted with a lead and moulded 13A plug top!!

 

[mark_the_spark]

Cheers guys for the tips, ive put a socket with the wee red light i think you call it a hard wired socket, a couple of feet away from the double socket that i am going to tap from i was going to hard wire the double oven to this one and have heavy duty grey cable going to the double socket main do you think this would be alright ??

Im suspecting being a double oven that its over 3kw, as Ive never seen a double oven that does not require a seperate 45a supply. If this is the case then NO, dont do it, for a number of reasons, your risking a fire, and if you have a fire you will have to explain to your insurance you did the works yourself (illegal) and besides when your cooking the xmas dinner and everything is going full pelt your going to overload your ring main.

"a little knowledge is a dangerous thing"

 

[madmaz]

most double ovens i've fitted lately have been 4200w without any diversity being applied