Cooker lead extention

Yes.

If you go with either of these options, be sure to dispose safely of the cable you remove from the new cooker. (A toddler was killed in Scotland a couple of years ago when he plugged the cable into a power socket and took hold of the live and neutral wires coming out of the cable.)

It would be a very clever toddler who managed to plug a bare cable into a socket.

I presume you mean a lead with a 13 amp plug attached which had been cut off from something? This cooker isn't plugged in.

Not cut off, but disconnected from the screw terminals in the cooker - thus leaving lengths of wire exposed.

Having read that, I am *much* more careful about destroying plugs on cables I remove from things. I can easily imagine being that electrician.

Which avoids that worry.

Oven, it would seem. Some oven can be plugged into a 13 amp socket - a cooker has to be hard wired.

If you've hacked off a moulded on plug with or without some lead still attached then yes it should be disposed of carefully. But in any case remove the fuse first - it can be used elsewhere. Which will also make it safe.

I'm not sure that will be possible, it looks like the original cooker was installed cooker first then the switch wired up then tiles installed.

I would try using the old cooker wire as a draw cable but I have the impression that it's been p[lastered into the wall.

Then how do I get it to the switch if the original cable can't be removed, which is what I think the problem is.

I tend to hoard such things in the loft until I lose them :-)

That sort of thing is worth remembering, I do this sort of thing at work with faulty equipemnt I always remove the plug and cut the cable off the device to stop someone trying to put a new plug on it.

Cheers for the reply,

Extend the cable using a suitable junction box. No problems with that if it's simply behind the cooker so still 'accessible'.

the plug and cut the cable off the device to stop someone trying to put a new plug on it.

We very often cut the plugs off aerial amps. Orders are to twist the pins with pliers until they fall off (surprisingly easy) if the scrap is left on site.

Bill

Indeed - or just pushed under an adjacent plinth:-)

A suitable junction box would be