Another electrician question - installing an electric cooker

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'm busy watching the six fire engines, 5 police cars and one police van that have just gone into Brixton Prison.

Assuming a practice run or a chip pan fire

I didn't fork out hundreds, my b/f who's on disability did

It's not an MP3 player.

It's not a hoover. I already have a Dyson (which doesn't work) and a Henry

 

[Hi-ASL]

New laptop?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

New laptop?

Nope, there's nothing wrong with the one I've got

 

[Hi-ASL]

Anyway.

Could it be described as electronic as well as electrical? What does it begin with?

Give us a clue.

 

[sparkit]

As far as I'm aware, you are allowed to replace like with like without needing a qualified electrician. So you're allowed to wire a new cooker into an exisiting fitting, replace a broken socket with a new one. The only thing that you need a sparky for is to put in a new socket etc.

Same with gas cookers - don't think that you need to get a CORGI registered fitter to plug in a new gas cooker.

Sod that for a game of soldiers anyway, it's a doddle.

 

[_pH_]

I think that there has been legislation that now requires electrical work in homes to be carried out by a qualified electrician. There may be a registration scheme for electricians but I am not sure.

Yes, Part P of the Building regs, but i don't think that applies in this case, only if you're adding a new spur or ring main etc.

Minnie - cable colours:
On the new cooker there will be:
- a BROWN conductor (this is the LIVE conductor)
- a BLUE (this is NEUTRAL) and
- a bare wire, hopefully with a bit of green and yellow earth sleeving on it (EARTH)

However, due to the changes in wiring colours ('harmonisation') that have happened over the last few years, the old cooker may* have different colours
- a RED wire (LIVE)
- a BLACK wire (NEUTRAL)
- an earth wire - as above.

So, make a note of which comes out of where on the old cooker and put the new correspondingly coloured wire in it's place

*depending on how old it is - most flexible cables have been brown/blue/yellow + green for many years, it's fixed cables that have been changed most recently from red/black/green + yellow - there's a link on the rhs of this page

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

They're here, and yes, there are different cables now and guess what, they're not even supplied with the cooker!

Have got them to do the job on the side. (I won't say where I ordered cooker in case I get them in trouble!)

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Anyway.

Could it be described as electronic as well as electrical? What does it begin with?

Give us a clue.

L

 

[Hi-ASL]

Laminator?

That's all I've got.

 

[_pH_]

Have got them to do the job on the side. (I won't say where I ordered cooker in case I get them in trouble!)

glad it's sorted Minnie. You can use the new oven to cook me some fairy cakes for being so helpful

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Laminator?

That's all I've got.

No, I already have one of those

 

[Hi-ASL]

Lamp?

No.

...

There is nothing else.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

glad it's sorted Minnie. You can use the new oven to cook me some fairy cakes for being so helpful

There's so much I like about it already. It's shiny and black

The grill door edges aren't going to continuously bruise me every time I bash into them as they're not sharp corners.

It's ceramic hob so no rusting of plates. It's ceramic so it lights up so b/f will be able to see which ring is on. There's little lights on top to tell you which ring is on and they stay on 'til it's cooled down. The buttons have markers on them to tell you where the off is so hopefully no more grill pan fires.

Oh, and the grill pan compartment has a see-through glass door so hopefully if there is a fire, you'll be able to see it

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Lamp?

No.

...

There is nothing else.

ok, the "L" is really the first of some initials

 

[Hi-ASL]

Riiiight.

LCD... clock. Obviously.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Riiiight.

LCD... clock. Obviously.

Half right

 

[Hi-ASL]

I have played better games than this, Minnie.

LCD... TV!!!

Fuck that was hard work.

 

[Hi-ASL]

Happily, I know nothing about LCD TVs.

So I am looking forward to the inevitable installation thread.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I have played better games than this, Minnie.

LCD... TV!!!

Fuck that was hard work.

What do you mean? If we were playing I Spy, you'd have got it in 4 guesses so I think you did well.

 

[_pH_]

There's so much I like about it already. It's shiny and black

The grill door edges aren't going to continuously bruise me every time I bash into them as they're not sharp corners.

It's ceramic hob so no rusting of plates. It's ceramic so it lights up so b/f will be able to see which ring is on. There's little lights on top to tell you which ring is on and they stay on 'til it's cooled down. The buttons have markers on them to tell you where the off is so hopefully no more grill pan fires.

Oh, and the grill pan compartment has a see-through glass door so hopefully if there is a fire, you'll be able to see it

yes, but what's it like at fairy cakes, hmm?

 

[Hi-ASL]

Oh right. I did pretty well, yeah.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Happily, I know nothing about LCD TVs.

oh

 

[WouldBe]

Plug it in and switch on.
Press 'menu' button on remote.
Select 'Installation' from menu
Follow instructions.


It might even detect it hasn't been installed and do it for you.

 

[Hi-ASL]

^. This.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Plug it in and switch on.
Press 'menu' button on remote.
Select 'Installation' from menu
Follow instructions.


It might even detect it hasn't been installed and do it for you.

yes, but there will be aerial issues and then figuring out how to get freeview and making sure both my video and dvd player will work.

It's the aerial bit that's bothering me

 

[internetstalker]

exactly, and I said Corgi was for gas but she was adam ant you needed Corgi registered person for electric.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

she looked a bit different though

 

[WouldBe]

yes, but there will be aerial issues and then figuring out how to get freeview and making sure both my video and dvd player will work.

It's the aerial bit that's bothering me

Does your present aerial work?
Can you already get freeview?
How are your video and DVD connected to your present TV?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Does your present aerial work?
Can you already get freeview?
How are your video and DVD connected to your present TV?

The aerial from the TV goes into a Sky socket (a socket on the wall with round plug holes). The DVD and the Video are both connected by SCART.

In fact, that can't be right as b-i-law gave us a digibox so that must take up one of the scart sockets but I'm not sure.

 

[berniedicters]

The aerial from the TV goes into a Sky socket (a socket on the wall with round plug holes). The DVD and the Video are both connected by SCART.

In fact, that can't be right as b-i-law gave us a digibox so that must take up one of the scart sockets but I'm not sure.

A Sky socket will have a plug with a very thin centre pin and a collar that screws down over the protruding body of the socket (The technical term for this, IIRC, is an "F plug/socket").

The other sort, with a metal collar and a centre pin about 3mm in diameter that plugs into a completely recessed socket is the standard TV (including Freeview) aerial socket, usually referred to as a "UHF plug/socket".