I plan to exchange the electrical plate for the induction hob and change the old extractor hood above the induction hob.
if I want to buy in online store the appliances, who could I contact for doing the work, meaning removing the current appliances and installing the new ones?
do electricians do that? or kitchen builder?
thanks for recommendations.
thanks for recommendations.
Electricians usually do that.
Some online stores will give you the option to request installation and even disposal of the old things.
An electricain. Though it is a job you can do yourself. I did both in my kitchen. The only tricky thing you might encounter is that the induction hobs can have a very high power requirement and you need to check whether the existing wiring is suitable.
Any âup-to-codeâ electric cooker installation should have sufficiently high-rated wiring, and itâs quite simple to check - just look at the breaker on the cooker circuit.
The main difficulty you may have is whether itâs a single, two or three phase supply. And in a recent kitchen renovation I did I found that yes, there was indeed a 3-phase supply, although the new induction hob only needed 2-phase, but there was no separate earth supply, so the common neutral had to be wired to both Earth and Neutral Not a job for the faint-hearted DIY-er, and certainly in a communal building, like a block of flats, something I expect would require you to use a competent qualified electrician.
Something you may not have considered when choosing the induction hob:
Flush-mounting hobs (with no edge lip) look best but as you are fitting in an existing hole in a worktop, you probably need to go for one with a lip around the edge which hides the hole.
Granite can be cut with a hand-held angle grinder in-situ but it will be difficult to get the precise straight-edges and rounded corners for a flush-mount and an electrician probably wonât have the skills or tools for this anyway.
any electrical things I want to have it done by electrician, so that I am safe with regards to the insuranceâŚ
I just wasnât sure if they did the taking out the old one and putting in the new one.
I even thought about buying something in EU and importing it because the price difference is shockingâŚâŚthere isnât any special Swiss standard for alliances so that I canât buy it from e.g. EU
thought about that too, and I think that the safest solution is to habe one with edge on the granite.
I find it interesting how many different sizes of the hobs there are. each brand has different sizes, with sometimes difference only in mm
Yes. As long as the hole is pre-cut then the putting in place is a matter of just a couple of minutes, but is easiest done by the electrician whoâs just connected it up, i.e. you canât normally mount it first and then connect it afterwards.
Should be no problem with an EU-sourced hob or extractor, but be aware that some of the hobs may be limited in power as EU domestic supplies are usually only single phase, and this will limit the maximum current draw, so it youâre trying to use all the induction plates on maximum some of them will switch out to reduce peak current. So check first.
Size-wise, the only thing that really matters is the dimensions of the hole required. IME this is pretty standard, so whether the overall width is 59.2, 60.9 or whatever it should not matter. BUT, I strongly advise that you get underneath the existing hob and measure the actual size of the hole thatâs there. Or if you have the original documentation for it the hole size should be stated.
FWIW the one I bought and installed last year was sourced via digitec, but I see the price is now chf200 higher than I paid so worth shopping around.
https://www.digitec.ch/fr/s1/product/siemens-ex675lxc1e-plaque-de-cuisson-11253629?supplier=406802
We found that for every Siemens model there is an identical Bosch model (i.e. theyâre the same company) usually with some common element in the model number, but often at a different price.
The old price still comes up when you Google search for that model (but the new price appears when you click on it) so the price increase was probably fairly recent.
When the dishwasher broke recently, I looked at possible replacements and saw an idea Siemens replacement for around CHF500 at Digitec. When I checked a few weeks later, it had gone up to CHF1000.
(I had cut and pasted details in to OneNote so it wasnât my mistake).
Prices seem to be very liquid at the moment.
Out of interest, does the flexible zoning work well on your induction hob? I wouldnât want to trade a fast booster function for large pans of boiling water etc for flexibility but at a lower power output. (hope that makes sense).
Yes. It has several useful features, including the front/rear split if you want it (boost on one and standard setting on another no problem) but all together when you want to move the pan back or use a bigger oval casserole dish or whatever, and a nifty âfryâ setting that keeps it at just the right temperature for your steak, your fish fingers, your stir fryâŚ
I confess thereâs still one feature with a symbol like <> only vertical that I havenât yet played with, so not sure what it does.
Just for my curiosity, please let us know how much the electrician will cost you.
In my experience, the quotes can be easily 100% apart, so it may pay off to ask more than one for a quote.
You can estimate based on hours. If the job takes 1 hour and you have some travel time each way, you can then multiply by the hourly rate.
We paid 49chf for the electrician to come and connect up our new oven.
Ok itâs not a hob but should be a similar sort of ballpark,
Hubby was planing to do it himself but when he took the old one out and put the new one in he realised that the connections were different and he wasnât confident enough to do it himself.
It was a Friday midday and I called the electrician expecting to have to wait until Monday but the guy said heâd send the appliance fitting electrician after lunch. Itâs a 15 minute journey and it was about 15 minutes work so I was expecting a bigger bill to be honest.
Sounds like you got a bargain. Been a couple of years since I needed to use one, but ISTR the bare minimum was always something over 100 chf. Theyâre just over 20 minutes away, but I donât think they factor the travel time in, except to add a callout fee if itâs an emergency. Rather, I think they just use a minimum time unit of an hour (or maybe half an hour?).
Half an hour at 100chf an hour seems reasonable.