Recent content by Quackington

Hello all. Just want to say thank you for all of the help and advice. My cooker arrived this past weekend, and it came with a standard three pin plug attached. I booked an electrician last week to come over and move my socket to behind the cooker, ans the switch for the socket away from it...

Hello again. I had an electrician round today that confirmed that the 2.6kw Rangemaster is okay to be plugged into a standard socket. However, my socket currently resides above where the new cooker would be (maybe not directly above, just a little to the left, but higher than the cooker). He...

Thanks. Just to be on the safe side, I've arranged for an electrician to visit on Saturday for a quote to fit a proper cooker connection (so I'm future proof if I ever switch to a full electric cooker).

Thanks for the responses again, everyone. I am arranging for an electrician to come in over the next few days. Steptoe - all of the cookers I'm looking at have gas hobs and maybe one electric oven cavity. I'm currently looking at this: Rangemaster 86870 Professional Plus 90 Natural Gas FSD...

ElektekAir - thanks for the heads up, reviews I read on some other sites were ok. Steptoe - does this mean I would just be able to use a normal sock for the cooker connection? I plan to get a range cooker with a gas hob but may have electric oven or grill. Will try to avoid this and get all gas...

Hi all, Thanks for such a speedy response. This is the cooker I am looking at: BCG920SS Baumatic Gas Range Cooker Stainless In Steel It's a Baumatic *BCG920SS Freestanding gas range cooker in stainless steel Sorry in advance that it's only a mobile link, I'm on my phone at the moment. The...

Hello there, I have a relatively small kitchen in an old-build house. I am currently having it refurbished, and have a number of electric sockets in the kitchen. I've been told that, to connect an electric cooker, you need a cooker connection unit and that it isn't just a case of converting a...