cooker hood - regulations

[someonelse]

Just had a new gas cooker fitted. The installer said the existing cooker hood /extractor was too low/too close to the hob.

I'm not sure if this is a cooker-specific recommendation or something in Building Regs about all cookers/hoods.

I'm sure when originally fitted it would have been done to the standards applying then.

So how worried should I be?

Is there a genuine safety issue?
Is there a Building Regs issue?

 

[xr4x4]

There is a minimum distance a gas hob has to be from an extractor, can't remember what it it.

What cooker do you have and what distance is it from the extractor.

 

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With no manufacturers instructions it is 760mm above a standard hob to any combustible surface.

If the hood manufacturer or extractor manufacturer allows it it can often be dropped to 650mm.

Manufacturers instructions always over ride the gas regs
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[kirkgas]

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With no manufacturers instructions it is 760mm above a standard hob to any combustible surface.

If the hood manufacturer or extractor manufacturer allows it it can often be dropped to 650mm.

Manufacturers instructions always over ride the gas regs
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you need to check MI of both the cooker and the extractor and must leave a space equal to the largest of the 2 dimensions (if they are different)