Removing electric cooker

[enkoda]

I'm moving in a few weeks and taking our electric cooker, but I'm being told by numerous people that I need a qualified sparky to remove the cabling from the socket?

Surely it's just a matter of flipping the big orange switch labelled "cooker", isolate the trip switch on the main circuit breaker, remove the cable cover and make note of which wire goes in which terminal and undo each one?

What am I missing?

 

[paintguy]

I have no ideas about the legalities of it, maybe that's why people are suggesting a sparky, but the process is certainly no harder than you describe.

Just make sure you remove the cable at the switch end (or wall outlet if you have one) so there are no bare conductors that could potentially come live if the new owner switches the breaker or cooker switch back on.

 

[Jez]

No legalities exist for this, and it is as simple as you describe

 

[enkoda]

Cheers, I was wracking my brain thinking "what have I overlooked, surely it can't be any more difficult than that?".