Cooker

[Ardesco]

My OH works for an electrical contracting firm and will not let me DIY that.

If I were a pro plasterer I wouldn't be worried about the expense of getting the wiring done.

Surely she can do it then, or knows somebody who will do it at trade price...

Slightly OT, but why won't she let you do it? You really can't go too far wrong with one long bit of cable that goes from the fuse box to a plug socket in the kitchen... Not like you are putting in a ring...

[gingerjedi]

Eh? When did I say anything about snobs?

You didn't I just like the idea of having a more upmarket cooker, just ignore me its not often I get to brag about something!

[Zorba]

Actually, you're onto something there GingerJedi... Normally you get people bragging about their houses, cars, rate, investments etc on this board. How can we find out what a suitable cooker for a contractor is?

I'd have said AGA but they're expensive and crap. A mate had a 'Quantum' oven - can't remember the brand - that cooks with microwaves, halogen lamps and hot air or steam at the same time. Now *that* was cool - properly roasted a chicken in 20 minutes! Never seen anything like it.

[gingerjedi]

My parents used to be in the hotel trade and they had a big industrial steamer that had a browning cycle, it would cook anything with super heated steam and then turn into a fan oven to finish things off, everything that came out of that oven was scrummy.

[Euro-commuter]

Surely she can do it then, or knows somebody who will do it at trade price...

Slightly OT, but why won't she let you do it? You really can't go too far wrong with one long bit of cable that goes from the fuse box to a plug socket in the kitchen... Not like you are putting in a ring...

Because it's not legal. Also doesn't believe I could do it competently. In the case of the wall stuff, she is right.

[Ardesco]

Because it's not legal. Also doesn't believe I could do it competently. In the case of the wall stuff, she is right.

Actually it is perfectly legal, all you need to do is get it checked by a electrical engineer once you have finished to get your certificate. (Although i'm sure 99% of people will say it was already like that when they moved in).

[oraclesmith]

No, it is OK: remember the circuit that supplies 13A sockets in the kitchen is not a 13A circuit, mine is 32A. I could even put the oven in 1 socket and the grill in another!

Then it's a standard ring main. 2.5 mm twin and earth. 16A as a single spur or 32A as a ring. If you've got other appliances on it, then the limit is about 7kw. In my humble opinion.

[Ardesco]

I'd trust you a lot more than the monkies who have done a evening course to get the required certification and then paid thier CORGI membership Zeity......

Just goes to show what a load of old crap the nu liemore law is. The most qualified people aren't able to validate that the job is a good one..

[Ardesco]

You may find this amusing, when i was contracting at CORGI I found out that the CORGI Inspectors (The guys who go out and check that gas installations have been done correctly and are safe, and that the gas installer is doing thier job properly) are not allowed to work on gas themselves as they are not certified. All of them are ex gas installeres with at least 15 years experiance...

[gingerjedi]

I wouldn't trust em' I had a British gas engineer condemn a boiler because the flue didn't go straight up out of the roof, he disconnected it and buggered off.

A week later after a friend had a look and gave it the ok I asked British gas to come back and have another look, it turns out that the previous engineer couldn’t tell the difference between a flue and the extractor fan outlet from my bathroom.