Can you really do this??

mdj1 · 8 Jun 2016

So just had an email come through from rightmove for a house.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property...buying&sc_id=16787272&onetime_FromEmail=true#

Look at picture 6. Surely you can't install a hob like that!?

bernardgreen · 8 Jun 2016

I think it "complies" if the adjacent walls are heat resistant.

But when used for cooking it would be a nightmare with no working place for pans when they have to be taken of the hob

noseall · 8 Jun 2016

Yes, that garden is a mess, isn't it.

gregers · 8 Jun 2016

wont have that view for long eh.

not once theyve built a couple of hundred houses on that field.

Doggit · 8 Jun 2016

It's not the hob that's an issue, it's the electrical socket above the hob that's the should be questioned.

mdj1 · 8 Jun 2016

I always thought you had to have x mm left and right of a hob for pan handles.

EFLImpudence · 8 Jun 2016

Most (?) hobs state a 5cm. space at the side - not much but more than it looks in the picture.

As for the switch and socket, there are no actual regulations but just common sense and they haven't used any - especially using a switch with a socket.

JohnD · 8 Jun 2016

I thought the space was to nearest combustible surface? So a tiled wall acceptable?

blightymam · 8 Jun 2016

EFLImpudence said:
As for the switch and socket, there are no actual regulations but just common sense .

Didn't know that! I presumed there was, and were made to disconnect ours off by the chap who installed our gas cooker when we moved in, oh and promise that we would get rid of it. He very nearly didn't install the gas because of the socket, so he was just being uber safe then?

Ihavenojob · 8 Jun 2016

Bloody cheap for a 4 bed house with garage. Could get 30 EE's paying £100 a week each in a similar property in Croydon.

cjard · 9 Jun 2016

ihatemyjob said:
Bloody cheap for a 4 bed house with garage. Could get 30 EE's paying £100 a week each in a similar property in Croydon.

Southerners have such a weird take on what's a reasonable price for a house

EFLImpudence · 9 Jun 2016

blightymam said:
Didn't know that! I presumed there was,

No, just general regulations regarding good workmanship and introducing hazards.

As there is not an actual requirement to have a cooker switch, obviously there are no rules regarding where to put it.

and were made to disconnect ours off by the chap who installed our gas cooker when we moved in, oh and promise that we would get rid of it. He very nearly didn't install the gas because of the socket, so he was just being uber safe then?

Probably - or if it was a fitter from one of the big stores, they have their 'standard' installation methods and if anything is different than what they're used to, they don't really know what to do.

Gerrydelasel · 9 Jun 2016

If I bought something for half a million quid I would expect more effort to have gone into its appearance. Property makes no sense.

Can you really do this??

Doggit

blightymam

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