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Removing baseboard heater and installing elec oven on that wall

Home Improvement Asked on November 1, 2021

We are purchasing a home that has a baseboard heater on the wall that will be ideal for an elec oven can I just remove it and use that wiring for the oven socket?

One Answer

Probably not.

  • There are 120V and 240V baseboard heaters. Your oven will almost certainly be 240V.
  • Baseboard heaters basically max out at 1500W. Ovens are more 2000W+.
  • The baseboard circuit probably had other things on it.

I'm ignoring the code issues, because I don't know the code, but I'd say the wiring is probably not good enough on a technical level. If this happened to be a 240V, 2500W heater on a dedicated circuit, it might be worthwhile to check the code, but anything less beefy than that isn't going to work.

Answered by user3757614 on November 1, 2021

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