The Power Source - Phase 2

This post is the 2nd in a series of posts about our new stove, I'll be posting this under a "DIY" tag for future reference.

Our new oven range arrived well within the 2 hour delivery window that Sears gave us and we were quite happy about this.

Both the stove and the micro-hood have been installed and we just need to finish/clean up the exposed drywall in between the two.

This post (or series of posts) aims to document our stove-replacement experience. Note that I was too embarassed to take pictures of the contractors while they were installing the micro-hood so I only have pics of what hubby did for the oven range. :-P

First thing we handled was the electric source from the wall. You see, our old stove was hardwired to the power source. We planned to hard-wire the new stove to the power source as well but the new stove's power box didn't allow for thick wires to be attached.

The picture on the left (from Make-My-Own-House.com) shows how the ends of our power source looked like, except that ours didn't have this electric box / housing built into the wall, our wires - which were much thicker - literally just came out of a hole in the wall.

We went to home depot to look for suitable wire contacts and found a surface mount oven range outlet instead. From then on, it was easy. We installed this surface outlet to the end of the power source (with the electricity turned off, of course) and bought an electric power cable for for our range.

Next thing on the list was the oven range power cable, it looks a little something like the picture on the left (taken from Sears.com). Each of the wires were color coded - red, black, white and green.

Note that the power cable has to be purchased separately from the oven range.

We then attached this to the power box of our new range.

Plug the the stove into the socket, switch the circuit breaker back on, and our new oven / range is in business.