Wiring cooker in new house

Hello everyone,

I am new here and would appreciate some advice on wiring my cooker (dual fuel range with a 13A plug) in my new house.

There is a cooker switch/socket like this which is on a dedicated 30A supply. There's no sign of an outlet plate so it looks like the previous owner's cooker was hard wired directly. The socket is already being used by the integrated extractor fan, which also has a 13A plug. 

 

What would be the best way to wire this so I have the fan and cooker connected? Also should I change the fuse at the CU? I will be getting a gas engineer in to connect the gas, but I'm hoping to do the electrics myself.

Many thanks in advance!

Have you taken the switch off the wall to see if any cable is actually connected to the output?  If there is, then there must be a cooker outlet plate, you just have not found it yet.

ProDave said:

Have you taken the switch off the wall to see if any cable is actually connected to the output?  If there is, then there must be a cooker outlet plate, you just have not found it yet.

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Thanks for your reply, yes I have done and there definitely isn't an outlet plate connected. 

I'd say  get a 2.5 mm cable from your cooker  switch , into  a base unit  by the  oven   & fit a socket .   Replace the  cooker circuit breaker with a 20 amp .    

Or use a 6mm cable  , a deep  box for the socket  & leave the circuit breaker as it is . 

mandy87 said:

Thanks for your reply, yes I have done and there definitely isn't an outlet plate connected. 

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how many cables are behind this unit in the back box?

Murdoch said:

how many cables are behind this unit in the back box?

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Just the one (from the CU)

Is it a hollow wall that it is on? Is there a hole in the back box where previous owners cable went through to their cooker? 

You say this is on a 30A supply presumably by looking at the breaker in the consumer unit that's labelled "COOKER"? Double check the cable is correctly sized. Very odd not to have an outlet plate imo. Unless there was provision for gas when the place was built and they saved a bob or two not putting an outlet plate in.

I have seen plenty, especially older houses, where there is no cooker outlet plate.  Just a length of conduit buried in the wall through which you feed the cooker cable up and directly into the back of the cooker switch.

Why not just replace the cooker unit with a double socket?

ProDave said:

I have seen plenty, especially older houses, where there is no cooker outlet plate.  Just a length of conduit buried in the wall through which you feed the cooker cable up and directly into the back of the cooker switch.

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That was quite normal many years ago, haven't generally seen it done in the last 15 - 20 years

ProDave said:

I have seen plenty, especially older houses, where there is no cooker outlet plate. Just a length of conduit buried in the wall through which you feed the cooker cable up and directly into the back of the cooker switch.

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Thinking about it 30A rather than 32 maybe dates it as "old"?


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