Gas oven installation problem.

[Kerrygold]

Ive gone to install a gas oven into kitchen today but the manufacturers instructions are stating that the oven be connected via rigid pipe. The problem ive got is that the oven housing unit is at an angle of which i cannot/nor any other installer access to connect on to the back of the cooker to install/replace and they have supplied no fitting for a cooker hose to connect to unlike the oven thats exisiting? (the manufacturer is the same for both ovens) The cooker was supplied with a 1/2" bsp female iron type fitting of which the female end screws to the cooker leaving a 1/2" bsp thread! I have not contacted the manufacturer yet as they were closed when i went to the customers home, im not familiar with this - the oven having to be rigid fixed (how would you ever install/disconnect without having to lose half the side of a cupboard? and also the fact that the hob which is rigid fixed - directly above the oven! how would you replace it if the need ever came about?)
Am i wrong in thinking that normally this type of installation would simply connect to the gas supply via a cooker hose?!?!

 

[SimonJohns]

I haven't come across this as yet. I've only ever fitted cookers with a flexi

Do you know the model?

 

[diamondgas]

You talking split level kerrygold yeh? There is no way you can rigid fix it into a kitchen unit without, as you say, cutting a gaping hole in the side! pm "kirkgas" he's the man for regs etc. failing that phone Gas Safe if you're lucky you'll get someone competent to advise!!!

 

[Kerrygold]

the oven is a inset type with a grill incorporated into the oven, not a doble oven nor a seperate oven and seperate grill set up.

 

[Kerrygold]

The model is a Hotpoint-SY23X.

 

[diamondgas]

I can't believe what I've just read! .... Did my resits last year and still have the bpec bumfff!! It states that rigid fix will usually be required... the isolation tap will usually be outside the cabinet!!! So you need to be fixing the oven before the work top goes on but then as you mentioned, how do you then connect the hob? The mind boggles !!! :crazy:

 

[SimonJohns]

it says on the mi's to use a fliexi such as those found in a commercial kitchen

 

[diamondgas]

it says on the mi's to use a fliexi such as those found in a commercial kitchen

Wipe's brow! Phewee! I've never known of an inset oven that requires rigid fixing!!! Cheers Simon

 

[SimonJohns]

Wipe's brow! Phewee! I've never known of an inset oven that requires rigid fixing!!! Cheers Simon

tbh i would phone hotpoint tomor, didnt know you could use this type of fitting on domestic, i thought it was only the rubber hose type

 

[diamondgas]

tbh i would phone hotpoint tomor, didnt know you could use this type of fitting on domestic, i thought it was only the rubber hose type

Me too Sounds a load of ballcox!! IMO

 

[Kerrygold]

am i being a complete idiot by not knowing this? i honestly thought that a hob was to be rigid fixed with isolation to prevent it being pulled up from the work surface and that a cooker irrespect of the type, connected via a hose purely on the basis of needing to pull the cooker/oven - around,in,out for maintence/servicing let alone installation?

 

[diamondgas]

am i being a complete idiot by not knowing this? i honestly thought that a hob was to be rigid fixed with isolation to prevent it being pulled up from the work surface and that a cooker irrespect of the type, connected via a hose purely on the basis of needing to pull the cooker/oven - around,in,out for maintence/servicing let alone installation?

To me that makes perfectly logical sense and the approach I would take Kerrygold .

 

[mfgs]

Call hotpoint. I have had a few issues with their instructions giving guidance not in accordance with the current regulations in this country, but to the standards in europe as they only give out one set of instructions it seems. I have always got them to email me confirmation of what they have said over the phone, they normally have a technical update to hand on the matter and just forward it on as they probably get a few calls.

 

[SafeGasInstall]

have fitted few gas ovens only , the only way you get it in is by flexy but you know witch type of flexy i am on about !

 

[wheeto]

... a hob was to be rigid fixed with isolation to prevent it being pulled up from the work surface...

Are you saying that the gas connection should be considered as a physical fixing?!

 

[SafeGasInstall]

ga sappliance must be screwed on to kitchen unit thats all