Cooktop and wall oven installation

We have a setup like that in our old kitchen. House was built in the late 60s, and at some point a previous owner replaced the original cooktop with a ceramic one. All you need for a cooktop is wiring to it, and a cutout in a countertop. We replaced the original wall oven when we moved in back in 2007. The front and rear of the oven rest on 2x4 studs, and it simply screws into the front of the cabinet to hold it in.

Are you trying to use existing cabinetry, or will you be getting something new? Seems like you would be getting a new base cabinet to replace where the range was sitting if I'm reading this right.

Install is pretty straight forward if you have a little electrical experience and simple wood working tools. Our wall oven is higher than the countertop height. So pretty easy to put stuff in and out without having to bend over like a range.

Our setup is similar to this, just flipped.

I highly recommend an induction cooktop.

It's much better than electric and even has many advantages over gas.

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I highly recommend an induction cooktop. It's much better than electric and even has many advantages over gas.

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Except when power is out, but since OP doesn’t have gas induction is great option.

Be prepared to pay crazy prices for a wall oven. Price them before deciding which way to go.

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Be prepared to pay crazy prices for a wall oven. Price them before deciding which way to go.

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Yeah I should have mentioned that earlier too. Back in 2007 prices, my wall oven, a tiny little 24 inch model to fit the space we had, was a grand. And since the big box stores don't carry them, and it was a special order item, the stainless was the same price as a black or white front. So we went with stainless to match the fridge. It is a little workhorse though. The good thing about it being a tiny electric oven is that it heats up pretty fast. The bad thing is that every cookie sheet or baking dish can only go in long ways, and there is a little bit of a hotspot in the back. Sometimes I have to flip stuff around after it is halfway or 2/3 done so I don't burn one end of it. But if you're going all new cabinets, might as well go all out and get a 30 or 36 inch wall oven.

We are going to tear out our kitchen and redo it completely at some point, and I'm still going to have a wall oven. It will be wide, gas, and I might go double ovens.

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Yeah I should have mentioned that earlier too

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I bought a new 24 in. wall oven right before Katrina hit and luckily my kitchen is on the second floor of my house with the main living quarters. It was something like $600 for that one.

Fast forward to last spring and that oven quit working and I decided to get a new one. To replace it with the same size oven cost me almost $1700. It was a better made oven and weighed at least 40 lbs. more than the one I replaced and had the self-cleaning feature where the old oven didn't.

Even so, that's a hell of a jump in pricing in a little over 15 years.