ha we just did and it popped the fuse, it needs to be into the oven only fuse

The cable rating and size is more important than the 'circuit breaker'. Ib

Trial fit both, if the top does touche the top edge of the bottom unit use that cheap hard boad to raise the top or upper unit ... Apperance is the factor most will pick up upon, if your stacking two singles youll need to line up the top of the upper oven with furniture doors but 1 ensure youve got the appropriate electrical outlets 2 ensure you create a ventilation route behind both units going up to the top of the cabinet they are in 3 plan the kitchen lay out , whats next to the oven units on both sides ... Keep fridges at least 200mm away from heat producing appliances it causes the fidge to overwork ...and shortens its life .

Oven 3100W = 240V x 13A OK for a 3 pin plug. Hobs / Cookertop 7200W = 240V x 30A = 2x 230V x 16A = or Three-phase 400V: 2 hot wire a 16A to N; (Three-phase 230V 3 hot are need, no N, only old systems in Belgium)

4mm

Not advisable, create a dedicated FCU spur from the ring

The answer is ... I would not advise you to do so 1 there could be damage caused to the electrical cable as it passes between the different materials along the route. 2 the heat could damage the cable if its too close ... It involves a cost but if you love your home and those in it get a sparkie to create a suitable electrical outlet

Thanks for the question. You don't need to do anything with the existing wiring you can simply connect directly to the hard wiring. When you fit an oven that is rated to work on a 13amp plug it is always recommended the oven is hard wired with an isolation switch. I hope this helps.

+RuislipAppliances thank you. so best to get an electrician to take off the plug and attach the cable of the new oven to the existing hard wiring.

I would advise this is the best action for you to take.

RuislipAppliances my new hot point oven came with plug attached but on plate it says220-240v~50/60hz 3,65kw can I plug this in or does it need to be hard wired

Good afternoon, Thank you for your comment. 2 parts to this 1st the oven should not have arrived with a fitted plug. 2nd a 3.65Kw total connected load will need to be hard wired as this will draw 16amps.

The model is C7GPX8 it does not say in any of the info we received and has a 2 foot wire coming out of the back with three wire like you would attach to a plug?? Can anyone help please?

Look at video at 1min 3w or over Hard wired.

No you can hard wire it as long as the hard wiring is big enough to take the wattage,

has to be hard wired

Well, you should make sure your 13Amp socket really does grip the plug. Its here where problems occur at full power. Plugs will get hot and over time you could get worse. You wont get this problem with hard wiring. If you use cheap sockets then expect problems. Have you ever felt the plug on an electric fire thats been on full power after an hour, hot.

I’m pretty sure that the huge drives they use in industry for rolling steel, don’t come with a socket on them. 🙄

@@simonwtkns1 Of course they don't, you are right and yet here in this country where I live, we still have to get an electrician to fix the oven to the wall, where there is a connection point, but its not a socket as such to plug in the oven with a simple plug, its a connection point with a connection to wire at least 5 wires from the oven to the wall and which an electrician is required to do, well so they say ;)

@@wearsider There’s a reason though. Household ring main sockets have a rating of 13amps maximum. That’s just about 3kW. That means anything above that cannot use the ring main. In write things are different. They tend to use spurs. Some of their connector types are rated more than 13amps subsequently. Please note, it’s not higher voltage. It’s higher current drawn from that same voltage. When I was a kid and we had new oven and it was supplied with a cable and a socket (alien to the UK). My father removed the socket and cable and replaced it with 40amp cable. For years I couldn’t understand how it could have possibly been safe to plug this oven in via a socket in Europe. It’s only on later years that I realised that in Europe both the cable and socket was rated higher than 13amps. However our system doesn’t exist for anything higher than 13amps and lower than 40amps, which was why we had to replace what looked like tiny cabling in comparison to the 40amp we had to use.

hi Paul, this is odd to say the least! , was it hotpoint themselves who said it? perhaps just ask them to put it in writing to you as your insurance company wants a copy to put on file next to your household policy, that usually focuses there attention....

I tell you more. These come with 1.5mm² flex cable. How it come then. You fitting 45A mcb for what ?

@@RuislipAppliances could you give me the link to that oven chart you mentioned

Are you sure this oven can be 13 amp , my electrician has hardwired ?? Confused

Is the hob wired into the same cable

Depends on what else you've got on that circuit.

Vax Buster hi, can you furnish me with a link to the regs that state this ?

Yep that's what it says in the instructions manual exactly I believe. So you would think best to follow that. My electrician came round fitted a 20 amp fuse connected my neff to this with 2.5 mm cable blah blah. After few tests the oven kept tripping. Although oven was brand new, I'd had it lying around for no. Of years. Gutted it didn't work. Any idea why didn't work ? The instructions don't explain in detail exactly how to fit the oven. I think the manufacturers give little info as they expect electrician to do it and, know what they doing. I'm having to presume oven is faulty.

@@garylist9 hi a man from ao told me I could only have a cooker 20amp and needed 4mm cable. I have a 32amp fuse box/bourd can I have a cooker single oven 32 amp plus I have a hard cable thing in the wall. please help

I think you might have totally misunderstood the entire point of this video. Some come with a plug,some need hardwired due to their higher rating than the 13 Amp a plug in is restricted to.

@@brownwarrior6867 Might have, so if there’s no plug you’ve got to hardwire it and if there’s a plug you plug it in. Unless I’m missing something then you plug in the plug, you wouldn’t attempt to take the plug off and hard wire it?

@@BenDover-ln6ns why carnt you hard wire it ,,who would want a plug in cooker ,when not enough plug sockets,wish they would keep everything the same ,it's just made my job of buying a cooker a lot harder,so now I have to look for one that doesn't have a bloody plug on