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Built in oven + separate ceramic hob electrical installation advice

Posted by Ben Miles, on Sun 28 Aug 2016 12:50pm

Firstly let me say that I'm not 100% on the terminology so please bear with me. I have a single built in oven and a ceramic hob that in need to connect to the mains. The oven is rated at 2.1 KW, the hob-- 6 KW. The oven is a modern type that can either be fitted with a 13 amp plug or the cable can be wired into a fused spur (like what a washing machine's power socket runs from). As I expect you know, the hob must be connected with a "H05VV-F or higher" cable. I have a council house with a standard cooker supply set-up, i.e a cooker connection-point which runs off a 45A Double Pole Cooker Switched Socket which goes to the main consumer unit? (fuse box). I would ideally like to connect the oven and the hob to the cooker-connection-point. Is that possible? what do I need? or what would you recommend as the best (simple/practical/cheap) option?. Thanks.

Jonathan Lloyd

Sun 28 Aug 2016 01:18pm

You a right in mostly what you think. the hob needs to go to the cooker point, as it takes the most power, and the oven and be plugged in. (Be aware, if the oven has come with a plug top, if you cut it off, it may void the warranty.) I usually try and put a double socket for the oven to plug in to, usually they'll be one somewhere e.g. for your washing machine. But, if you take a socket off/or wire the oven with the hob into the cooker point, then you are not protecting the cable that supplies the oven.

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Marcus Payne

Tue 06 Sep 2016 03:01pm

Spur off of the cooker outlet with a single unswitched socket (the cooker control provides the switch for isolation) wire the hob into the outlet and plug the oven into the socket. As for removing the plug that has more to do with the fuse than the plug, if it has a 5 0r 10 amp fuse protecting the cable and you change to a 13amp fused plug and don't change the fuse that would invalidate the warranty.

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