Planning to install IKEA kitchen with builder friend. Have noticed that on the wall behind the proposed position for the built in double oven is a vertical gas pipe that would run vertically down behind the oven. It then has a right hand turn for about 8 inches at which point the gas is clearly locked off. This I'm assuming must be the original gas feed for the kitchen installed when the house was built about 25 years ago enabling the use of gas cooking- which has never been used.
Questions are these:
1. Is there a problem with the gas pipe running behind the oven, provided that there is physicaly enough room for the pipe (There seems to be a recess from the IKEA plan.
2. Would it be necessary/possible to get the pipe cut (With a gas safe tradesman of course) and locked off, at the top of the ceiling (It runs down vertically from the ceiling) at a point ABOVE the top cabinet which is above the built in oven.
HELP!!!!
Wife in a real state about this since there is no other position really suitable for this appliance!! Any advice from experienced tradesmen would be really appreciated - or anyone who has encountered this problem in the past.
Questions are these:
1. Is there a problem with the gas pipe running behind the oven, provided that there is physicaly enough room for the pipe (There seems to be a recess from the IKEA plan.
2. Would it be necessary/possible to get the pipe cut (With a gas safe tradesman of course) and locked off, at the top of the ceiling (It runs down vertically from the ceiling) at a point ABOVE the top cabinet which is above the built in oven.
HELP!!!!
Wife in a real state about this since there is no other position really suitable for this appliance!! Any advice from experienced tradesmen would be really appreciated - or anyone who has encountered this problem in the past.