How do you install an electric hob?

Luuk16 NOVEMBER 2025

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How should you install an electric hob?
Our installation service for your hob
Our advice for installing an electric hob

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A built-in hob suits a modern kitchen with a sleek design. Do you also want to build an electric hob into your kitchen or kitchen island? Read exactly how to do that.

How should you install an electric hob?

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Are you planning to install your hob yourself? With this article and the manual of your built-in hob beside you, you’ll succeed. We’ll take you step by step through the process of installing an electric hob. Keep in mind that installing an electric hob is slightly different from connecting a hob yourself. For this, your kitchen needs to have the right connections as a minimum, and you must have the necessary electrical knowledge. If that’s not the case, leave connecting a hob to professionals.

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Measure the niche dimensions in advance

Before you even start with a built-in hob, it’s important to know the niche dimensions of your kitchen. That way, you know which electric hobs will and won’t fit. The niche size of a built-in hob is the space in the worktop where the hob will go. You measure the niche depth, the niche width and the thickness of the worktop. Then check whether the hob you have in mind will fit in this niche.

How to measure the niche size of a built-in hob

Check the product dimensions

You can always find the dimensions of an electric built-in hob in the online product information or on the hob’s installation drawing. This way, you know whether the built-in hob will actually fit in your kitchen’s niche. The depth and width of an electric hob are often just slightly larger than the niche depth and niche width in your kitchen. That’s because the hob rests on the worktop.

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Connect the hob cable

To connect your hob’s cable, your kitchen must at least have the correct connections. You’re dealing with 1-, 2- or 3-phase hobs. You connect electric hobs with 1 or 2 phases to a normal socket. However, most hobs in the Netherlands are 3-phase. You connect these to a so-called Perilex socket. You need the necessary electrical knowledge for this, also because you must check whether your consumer unit is suitable for this connection. Are you getting stuck at this step? Then we recommend hiring an electrician.

Attach sealing tape

With sealing tape around the edge of your built-in hob, you prevent moisture and dirt from getting under the hob. This heat-resistant sealing tape is included when you order an electric hob, and you attach it around the niche in the worktop. The sealing tape also ensures a neat finish.

Place the electric hob in the worktop

Slide the electric hob very carefully into the niche. As mentioned, the top of the hob will rest on the worktop. Check whether the electric hob sits completely level in the niche.

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Secure the hob

Use the supplied mounting clips and brackets to secure the hob firmly in the cut-out of your worktop. You don’t want the hob to suddenly shift while you’re cooking.

Check whether the hob works

Are you confident enough in your electrical knowledge and have you found the correct connections? Then switch on the power supply and check whether the hob works properly. If something is wrong, the hob will also display an error message.

Our installation service for your hob

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As mentioned, connecting a hob is quite a task if you don’t have much electrical knowledge. Are you going to have an electrician do this? Then we also recommend leaving the installation of your electric hob to a professional. Make use of our installation service. You can select this during the ordering process of your built-in hob. Our experts will visit you to carefully install and connect the electric hob. They’ll take your old hob back with them straight away. The installation service does not apply to Marketplace products.

Our advice for installing an electric hob

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An electric built-in hob looks beautifully sleek in any kitchen. Installing such a built-in hob is not immediately a problem; connecting it does require some extra electrical knowledge. Don’t have this? Then use our installation service. Do you know enough about Perilex sockets and 3-phase connections? With this article and the manual of your built-in hob to hand, you can install your new electric hob yourself.

Also view our built-in induction hobs