Cooker points

Installing a new cooker into your kitchen can be as simple as plugging in a typical UK plug or having a professional electrician come in and connect the wires of your new cooker into the circuit.However, if you don’t have a cooker circuit, then an electrician (Apex Electrical Specialists) will need to come in and install one. 

 

A cooker circuit is a separate electrical circuit that allows your cooker to draw enough power without taking any of that power away from any other electrical appliances.If you take a look at your electrical circuit board in your home, you may see labels by the breakers like “lights upstairs”, “sockets downstairs” and “immersion” and so on. If you already have a cooker circuit, you should see a label for “cooker”. This is an entirely separate electrical circuit that powers your cooker and nothing else.

 

As cookers draw a lot of power when in use if they are on the same circuit as other electrical appliances, they can blow a fuse or make that circuit unsafe. So, they must have a separate breaker.So, if you are buying a hard-wired cooker (a cooker that doesn’t have a UK plug), you must have a cooker circuit installed on your circuit board to ensure the cooker works safely.