This was his response: you only have 1 rcd so will have to change the board to pass the certificate. He's quoting £650 to do that.Thanks. It's only a Hotpoint oven. I'll ask about the reason for a new CU.
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This was his response: you only have 1 rcd so will have to change the board to pass the certificate. He's quoting £650 to do that.Thanks. It's only a Hotpoint oven. I'll ask about the reason for a new CU.
And details of new oven.Picture of existing CU, showing 'breakers/mcb's' etc, especially cooker circuit might assist.
Thank you....this is what he said: you only have 1 rcd so will have to change the board to pass the certificate.Welcome to the forum.
I'm not as polite as the others and will say that it sounds like the electrician is talking rubbish.... or you may have misheard them.
Get the electrician to put a his explanations in writing and then post that up on here.
This was his response: you only have 1 rcd so will have to change the board to pass the certificate. He's quoting £650 to do that.
Apparently the old oven was higher than the new Hotpoint DKD3 841 IX one. He said something about old being 40 and new only being 20. Both are hard wired but the position isn't changing. He said the new one would burn out due to the difference...images attached.On the scant information you have given it is hard to say the truth of the matter. How many Kilowatts is your new oven and how many kilowatts is your old oven? If you dont know, give us the model number of the ovens. Does your old oven plug in? Does the new one, i.e. does it have a plug on it??? Can you photograph the board he is talking of changing and put it up here? Of course you could always just return the oven and get a lower rated one to match the one you are replacing???
It was £650 I think to install the cooker and the board...Anyway, you don't change a board to pass a cerificate. You issue a Minor Electrical Installation Works Certificate (aka MEIWC) as best practice, but as already stated above it is not strictly required so that sounds like a load of bunkum to put it as politely as I can! So if I have this right, £400 to change the cooker, £650 to change the board, total £1050, is that correct??? I really hope not, if it is he needs reporting to trading standards.
As long as the oven is rcd protected and mcb/cable is suitablt sized then there should be no issue.Thank you....this is what he said: you only have 1 rcd so will have to change the board to pass the certificate.
Don't think your images worked. Copy and paste works well on this forum for images by the way.Apparently the old oven was higher than the new Hotpoint DKD3 841 IX one. He said something about old being 40 and new only being 20. Both are hard wired but the position isn't changing. He said the new one would burn out due to the difference...images attached.
Even if not RCD protected I'd still change a broken appliance.As long as the oven is rcd protected and mcb/cable is suitablt sized then there should be no issue.
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