I've just bought a new cooker


It's a freestanding dual fuel type which is replacing a narrower all gas cooker.

I've altered the space for it without any drama but I now need some help connecting the cooker.

My brother in law is a gas engineer and has connected the gas pipe but he doesn't know how to connect the electric cable (he works on commercial gas installations).

The electrical connection on the back of the appliance looks like this;


They don't supply an electrical cable but I can pick one up no problem.

What I'd like to know is whether or not I can just plug this in to a socket (in which case, which bit in the picture do I wore it in to?) or whether it will need to have a proper fuse spur fitted in which case I'll need an electrician.

Anybody good with this kind of thing?

The installation manual should be able to say cable size, fuse rating and connection methods as is always best consulted.

It connects to live ,neutral and earth terminals as you have shown. Just keep the copper links in aswell though.

Connect live to second terminal from the left, neutral on terminal second from right and earth as shown, no copper showing outside the terminal when removing the insulation from the cable.

The links are there as i presume its a dual electric oven jobbie?

The manual will always specify installation methods.

You will need a dedicated supply from your board to your cooker switch. The switch is normally 45a. The cooker is hard wired to this switch...normally 6mm twin and earth. However this may need uprated depending on cooker rating. You cannot just plug it in. Also you will need a chain from the wall to back of cooker to comply with gas safe regs

Thats typically correct based on an electric cooker but on this the loading will be smaller and the hob is gas.
Might get away with a smaller supply but as zigman states should be a dedicated supply with double pole isolator ( cooker connection unit typically).
If you don't have one you will need to correct this.

As zigman states a stability chain has to be fitted also.

Electrician as Simon has highlighted is best bet.

Thanks guys.

It's 32 amps but beyond that the manual doesn't give much away for installing, presumably because they don't want unqualified people like me just having a go.

I'll call the chap we use at work but this sounds like it's a bigger (more expensive) job than I initially thought.

I'm not purporting to be an expert as above but even an oven which is the electric part will draw a huge current especially if you're running a small oven as well.

Might as well get the proper foundations of fuse and cable size as detailed above in once and for all - it's done then, a safe selling feature if required or just in case you went for another cooker later. I reckon it should be hard-wired but into a switch nearby to throw off if required.?

Fues box should have its own fuse/MCB for the oven supply only, going via a dedicated switch (something like this - many others available) normally on the wall behind the cooker or elsewhere nearby.

Did you have an electric oven before? If so, you should be able to re-use the wiring and switch, but seeing as you've not mentioned it, presumably you didn't.