Mains electricity supply for gas oven and hob

Chris Cowley · 2006-03-07T10:27:48+00:00

My old gas cooker was a free-standing one with an AA-battery poweredignition system. The new (built in) oven and hob require a mainselectrical supply for their ignition and the oven light. Theinstallation instructions for the oven state that it must be connectedvia a double-pole switch and protected by a 13A fuse.What I intend to do is replace a socket on the ring with a DP "cooker"switch and have this switching a new 13A double socket into which theoven and hob will be plugged.I'm not sure whether I'd be better off using two 13A FCUs instead of thedouble-socket, but then I don't think I can have two separate FCUs fromthe DP-switch as one will be a spur-off-a-spur. I haven't been able tofind a 2-gang FCU, which is why I'm thinking of using a standarddouble-socket.Is this a reasonable way of doing this? Is there a better way?

Mar 07, 2006 24 Replies

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Dave Plowman (News) 20 years ago

Mine doesn't. It's simply pushed into the housing.

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Christian McArdle 20 years ago

You'd better find some screws and a screwdriver then!

Christian.

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Guy King 20 years ago

The message from "Dave Plowman (News)" contains these words:

Ours used to be like that but it'd slowly creep forwards so it's screwed in now.

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Dave Plowman (News) 20 years ago

Must have a powerful fan, then?

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Guy King 20 years ago

The message from "Dave Plowman (News)" contains these words:

Hovercookers!

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