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have had a range oven installed by electricians from kitchen fitting company and has been wired in 10mm SWA externally and then 16mm to cooler. Is this a massive case of over doing it?? Cable is obviously too big for cooker terminals and been crimped at the outlet!! Anyway, pulled oven out today and there was a small bang and a puff of smoke! Have looked at cooker terminals and as the size of the 16mm is far too big the live has come loose and touched the oven housing, now the oven only works on two rings and the rest doesn’t work at all, cooked electronic circuits I suspect. Thoughts anyone as to who’s to blame???
 
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Our dual fuel oven was fitted in 2009. It's had 3 replacement main elements (I've got a forth collecting dust in the garage), 2 sets of door hinges, 2 circulation fan thermostats & zillions of light bulbs. It's time was up, when we had to wedge a stool against it, to keep the door properly shut. Gas hobs were faultless :D
 
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Our dual fuel oven was fitted in 2009. It's had 3 replacement main elements (I've got a forth collecting dust in the garage), 2 sets of door hinges, 2 circulation fan thermostats & zillions of light bulbs. It's time was up, when we had to wedge a stool against it, to keep the door properly shut. Gas hobs were faultless :D
 
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Matthewd29 said:
Turn your oven off next one you pull it out
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I have just read the "disagree" on this post,and are bursting to hear the logic,of removing an appliance,for the first time,and not isolating the supply.

I can only think of two possible scenarios...and one of them,is where the person removing it,is entirely made of paxolin...
 
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Ian1981 said:
If an oven is going to be subject to vibration or constant movement then it should be wired in flexible cable.
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Fair comment,but the only "constant movement" it encountered,was the single,1 meter travel,backwards,whilst connected to a live and sizeable supply,of unknown soundness :)
 
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telectrix said:
our elec. oven was fitted in 1997, had 1 new element fitted (by me), otherwise trouble free. the gas hob came from a customer's kitchen strip-out. also fitted by me (don't tell gas safe). better than all the new crap on sale now.
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Mrs Telectrix has just posted on Mumsnet (thats where I meet lonely housewives for daytime fun) that her husband installed a cooker in 1997 and her husband still doesn't know how to turn it on, or her.
;o))))
 
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why would i want to turn the oven on when she's there to do it. as for the last bit, i've kept her happy for 11 years, 3 times a week, she always has this look. :):):).
 
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SWD said:
I keep her happy for the other four days and the day she leaves with the instructions for the cooker you'll starve....... ;o))))
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sod off i got a microwave and a commercial chip fryer. plus a chippy and a kebab shop within half a mile. who needs women to cook.
 
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I'd love to know where the disagree came from myself, it seems like basic common sense to me
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I have just read the "disagree" on this post,and are bursting to hear the logic,of removing an appliance,for the first time,and not isolating the supply.

I can only think of two possible scenarios...and one of them,is where the person removing it,is entirely made of paxolin...
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14kw sounds really big cooker for a private house...housing association?Is it an HMO? If so it may not necessarily be considered as domestic as there could be more than one person cooking at once so your normal allowable diversity of first 10 amps plus 30% of the remainder wouldn't be permitted.plus if they took the cable right round the outside of the house, it could be a fairly long run..so 10mm might not be far off the mark
 
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telectrix said:
our elec. oven was fitted in 1997, had 1 new element fitted (by me), otherwise trouble free. the gas hob came from a customer's kitchen strip-out. also fitted by me (don't tell gas safe). better than all the new crap on sale now.
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Did the customer know it was being stripped out though?:)
 
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JK-Electrical said:

----, 3 of them, more like.
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like this?

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