Electric Oven Wiring

[WeAreBongo]

Thanks for your replies regarding my previous question - http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Home-and-Garden /Question612645.html. Can anyone provide further advice?

The (broken) Belling XOU176SS built-in single oven that I have at the moment is plugged into the mains, however the oven was already in-situ when we moved in. Does it sound like the previous owners added a plug rather than hardwiring it? Behind the oven is a standard double socket, one plug for the oven and one for the dishwasher. There is nothing for the cooker to be hardwired into other than the socket. How would a new oven be hardwired considering everything is built in? Should I just get my existing oven repaired, even though it has a tendency to blow elements and cooks unevenly?
Thanks again peeps!

[WeAreBongo]

I will look around a bit more, but the ones I've looked at so far all say "requires hardwiring"...

[fagidill]

Telephone Belling, Customer care 0870 4444 9939

They will have the correct answer for you.

[gucciman]

i installed a duel fuel single oven last week, gas hob with an electric oven. the oven came with no supplied cable and had to be hardwired with 4.5mm2 cable into a fused spur, fortunately the spur was already in place.

[woodchopper]

I would ask an electrician for his advice - sounds like the previous owner has done a DIY on it and botched it.
Any cookers i've looked at are hardwired into a proper spur unit.