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Kildrought said:I disconnected my old cooker as follows:
1. turn off all mains supply at fuse board
2. remove switch cover for cooker (your 'orange switch')
3. open up and you'll find the mains wires connected to the wires coming from the cooker; you should be able to unscrew these connectors.
4. your cooker is now disconnected and you should be able to 'pull through' the cable leading from the cooker into the socket and remove from the socket altogether. if you can't do this, cut the cable as near as you can to the socket and pull it up.
5. now you have to insulate the remaining wires as these will be 'live' when you turn the electricity back on.
6.trim back the exposed copper wire and sheath each one in layers of insulating tape and tuck them back out of the way into the socket box, making sure nothing is touching. Put back the socket cover as before, to leave things neat.
I'm not sure this is the approved electricians way of doing it, but I did this many, many years ago (have a gas cooker instead) and have had no problems, and spent the (then) £100 I would have been charged on something much nicer!
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