Wiring in a new oven.

[FlyingBrick]

Any help into what would be a realistic price for wiring up a new oven to a cooker socket. Lady down the road has bought a new one and thinks £30 is to much for a new lead and megga testing.

Cheers

Chris

[A1engineer]

Re: Wiring in a new oven.

£65 if it needs a cable
£55 if it doesnt
£40 if it is a plug into socket effort.

[bagman]

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What ^ he says 🙂

[spimps]

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Pleased that came up,are we OK without part p etc to connect cookers.can’t give them a certificate which council properties or warden controlled flats might require.

[FlyingBrick]

Re: Wiring in a new oven.

Thanks chaps

I was beginning to think she was hard done by having spent a few hundred pounds on a new cooker then expected it to be hard wired to her old wall face plate for charity.
Would have required some new twin and earth plus checking it out with my mega and of course burning off the coated oil on the heating elements.
Very polite to the lady and her mother but she was rather rude and told me she could do it herself?
Will wait for the bang down the road.

Chris

[EFS]

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I did a lot of these for the local council in asylum seeker flats £35 + cable if needed.
Cheap as chips then they blew me out.
I think they found an Iraqi with a work permit.
Next update see news at ten 😈

Steve

[petalpop]

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i do it for £50 pounds + cable if needed
if they argue it i tell them to check on comet etc who all charge around £80 to connect a cooker

[don]

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Ah well I may as well join in 😆

Local postcodes are charged at

£45 for freestanding cooker and single built in, plus cable if required.

£75 for range cooker and double built in, plus cable if required.

Don

[FlyingBrick]

Re: Wiring in a new oven.

Thanks chaps

Very useful information in keeping up to date on charges for various electrical jobs.
With the recession still running along it now gives me a better idea on charging more realistic prices for the customers so called 5 min jobs.

Had an email from those awfully nice people from eSpares with a discount but what they do not say is that the parts always take a lot longer to get to your address than UK Whitegoods. Have ordered a few items and it has always been a full week before they turn up.

Chris

[gandh1]

Re: Wiring in a new oven.

my 2 pennies are:

free if cooker/oven bought from us at time of delivery.
£48.00 exc. vat for connection, test and demo (no cooker already there)
£72.00 exc. vat if its also disconnection and disposal, anything less and ill go out of business selling new goods!

£ 4.95 inc. vat per 1.5m if required

the biggest excuse ive heard from comet&currys teams is that the switch doesnt isolate the cooker point. weirdly the customers always feel that the team that delivered it were in a hurry, and if I have to get my electrician to look at it he so far has always stated theres nothing wrong with it.

[boselecta]

Hi FlyingBrick
I think you have to set yourself a minimum limit that you are willing to do work.
My view is if someone else wants to do the job for £30 they are welcome to the work.
I certainly would not entertain working for that amount.

[lee8]

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In my area there are several working for that kinda money.

I guess they feel £30.00 for 30 minutes work beats minimum wage.

I doubt there carrying the correct skills, knowledge or Insurance, but as Martin points out our industry has very few and little interest in regulations, until something goes wrong.

I refused yesterday to rewire a cooker that was disconnected by a spark, we replaced blown element but the wiring for the oven was shared with a hob through a 40 yr old single cooker point, there was no way I was trying to cram two twin an earth cables into a bakeolite box, plus I only get paid for the element change, so not worth the risk, I passed it back to the client to have installed and got a signed decleration why we did not reinstall.

[LJDomestics]

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Also glad this post came up!
Always charged £30 for install, £35 if cable needed.
Never has a whiner yet.

However my prices are going UP as of now.

Not willing to pay £30 or whining,Tell them they will have to eat out from now on.

Jokin aside,Your bound to get the odd one or few tight as*s,Stick to your prices though,You aint running a flea market so no haggling.

[FlyingBrick]

Re: Wiring in a new oven.

Have got the drift well and truly chaps.

Will stick to my normal £40 for general repairs on domestic appliances and the odd pc repair. Obviously even feeling sorry for the lady in question and dropping down to £30 would not have kept her happy.
It will cost them that for a meal out on Saturday night in a pub without a connected cooker.
Did give her some other local numbers in my area and requested if she could find somebody please phone me back as I would love to know. Phone very quite.

Just come back from a repair job on an Indesit washing machine and had a nice tingle having touched the drum.Ouch.
Got out my mains tester and surprise surprise it shows no earth on the socket under the work bench plus a double socket for the kettle and toaster on top.
Took multimeter out and buzzed across the earth pins and nothing.

Very old thatched cottage with owner living there for 6years and just the good old fuse box on the wall with downstairs wiring through the 30amp fusewire.
Tried to take off very newish looking metal double sockets to have a look for the customer but they had been grouted in?
Informed customer who did not seem to be interested in such a dangerous situation as he was busy watching rugby on the TV, have to go back with a part and get him to sign a letter for me as I reckon the sparks will not be contacted.

My relatives thatched farmhouse roof took 18 minutes to burn down the complete roof.
Mmm some people just want to be in the Darwin book of death 2010.
Thanks again for pricing.

Chris

[maltheviking]

Re: Wiring in a new oven.

Interesting little post 🙂 which brings to light a little puzzler.

Ok you turn up to fit the new oven or cooker and you find it’s wired into a cooker connection plate via the double pole cooker switch, do you just just connect the new appliance as the old one was, or is there something else you need to take into consideration?

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