Electric Cooker Installation Cardiff
Cookers, ovens and hobs connected on properly rated circuits, with an isolator you can reach without leaning across a hot hob.
Cooker Installation In Cardiff
Rated Circuits And Proper Connections
We check what is already on the wall against the appliance you have bought, because connecting a range cooker to a point sized for a small oven is how a connection ends up running warm behind the unit. Tell us the rating when you book and we will bring what the job needs.
Our cooker installation services include:
- Electric cooker installation and connection
- Separate oven and hob circuits
- Range cooker supplies
- New cooker circuits from the board
- Cooker connection unit installation
- Cooker isolator switch fitting
- Existing cooker point replacement
- Induction hob supplies
- Consumer unit upgrades where required
- Cooker point repairs and fault finding
Notifiable work is certificated and notified to building control by us.
Need A Cooker Installed Or Connected?
A straight cooker connection or a new circuit from the board, no job is too big or too small for our electricians.
Cooker Installations Across Cardiff & Nearby
Cardiff based, so a cooker delivered today can usually be connected within a few days.
We connect cookers across the whole city and out into the Vale.
Rear extension kitchens are where we most often find a cooker point fed by a circuit that was extended out to it years ago.
Our Accreditations
- NICEIC Registered
- Part P Compliant
- BS 7671 18th Edition
- Safecontractor Member
- MCS Accredited
- RECC Member
- CHAS Member
- OZEV Approved Charge Point Installer
- Trustmark Member
- Fully Insured
Cooker Circuits & Isolators
What A Cooker Connection Should Look Like
A cooker circuit should run from its own protective device at the board to a cooker connection unit, usually mounted low and to one side of the appliance rather than directly behind it. The appliance flex then goes into that unit, and a switch above the worktop isolates it.
The switch position matters more than people think. It has to be reachable without leaning over a hot hob, which is why it goes to the side rather than above, and it has to be accessible once the units are fitted.
Where an oven and hob are separate appliances, they can sometimes share one suitably sized circuit depending on their combined rating, and sometimes cannot. That calculation is the job rather than a detail.
What we find on older installations is a cooker point fed by cable that was adequate for a smaller appliance, or a connection made inside a plaster wall with no accessible joint. Both get put right rather than reconnected.
Replacing A Cooker
What We Check Before Connecting
Swapping a like for like appliance onto a sound existing circuit is a short job, but it starts with looking at what is there rather than assuming. We check the rating of the existing circuit against the new appliance, inspect the connection unit and the cable behind it, and test the circuit before it goes back into use.
Warm or discoloured terminals in a cooker connection unit are common and worth catching, because a loose connection carrying that much current is how kitchens catch fire. It is not visible with the appliance pushed back in.
If your new cooker is a step up from the old one, tell us the rating when you book. Induction hobs in particular draw a good deal more than the ceramic hobs they usually replace, and the existing supply does not always carry it.
Where a new circuit is needed and the board has no spare way, that is dealt with first.
Frequently Asked Questions
Our Cooker Installation FAQs
Can I plug my cooker into a normal socket?
Some single built in ovens can run off a suitable socket circuit. Range cookers and most hobs cannot and need their own supply sized to the appliance.
Where should the cooker isolator switch go?
To the side of the appliance and reachable without leaning over a hot hob, and accessible once the units are fitted. Not directly behind the cooker.
Do induction hobs need different wiring?
Often, yes. Induction draws considerably more than the ceramic hob it usually replaces, so the existing circuit may not carry it. Tell us the rating when you book.
Is connecting a cooker notifiable work?
A new cooker circuit is notifiable under Part P and we certificate and notify it. Connecting an appliance to an existing sound circuit is not.