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It’s a brand new house so whatever is there now was there originally. The double socket behind the oven has both ovens plugged into it, a smaller top oven and the bigger bottom oven, which is the one that the plug went on fire for.

Yeah so there is an isolation switch on the wall too… That switch kills the power to that double socket behind the oven (the one with the burn marks on it). That isolated red wall switch is on its own fuse on my main fuse box labelled “cooker” so it looks fine right up to the red switch...

I’ve been trying to work out what the building regulations state. It seems anything over 3kw should be hardwired, both of the ovens are over 3kw! I’m going to get an electrician to tell me if it’s even compliant or not. Worried me a little bit, shouldn’t be going on fire and melting should it!?

Oven went pop on Christmas Day (typical). Gone to try and fix it today…the plug look likes basically been on fire behind the oven (see pics). Should this have popped a fuse somewhere before it got to this stage? I live in a new build house so this whole setup is only 2 years old...