Flexible hoses and Gas cookers

[tamz]

If a metalic flexi is specified it does not mean trac pipe.
It would mean a hose to bs 699-2 which is a commercial catering hose.

 

[expertgasman]

True, if the instructions say you can use a flex, you can. In this case though, it specifies a metallic flex, which is not the kind of flex you use for a free standing cooker imho.

Sorry, Ben, but where does the OP say this? MJN said his NIs demand a metal pipe, but I suspect he is confused. No offence intended.

 

[namsag]

Obviously ben thinks a standard cooker flex is made of rubber and not flexible metal with a rubber coatin. And obviously never fitted many built in ovens either as 99% of them are flex fits .
Mind he also thinks its illegal to wrap pipe to protect it when being buried etc

 

[namsag]

Obviously Bengas thinks a standard cooker flex is made of rubber and not flexible metal with a rubber coatin. And obviously never fitted many built in ovens either as 99% of them are flex fits .
Mind he also thinks its illegal to wrap pipe to protect it when being buried etc

 

[MJN]

True, if the instructions say you can use a flex, you can. In this case though, it specifies a metallic flex, which is not the kind of flex you use for a free standing cooker imho.

What do you think they're made of then? (If you're going to say rubber then it's probably time you called it a day, assuming your tally is indicitive of what you do for a living!)

Come on Ben, if you're backtracking on your initial statement then please do so as it's just causing confusion otherwise.

Mathew

 

[MJN]

Sorry, Ben, but where does the OP say this? MJN said his NIs demand a metal pipe, but I suspect he is confused. No offence intended.

Confused? Not at all - I was merely quoting from the instructions for our Stoves oven which state that a 'flexible metallic hose' is an acceptable method of connection.

Mathew

 

[joinerjohn]

Built in gas ovens almost always require a flexible hose. How on earth can they be fitted otherwise? The unit they are built into usually goes right back to the wall. The only room there is to connect it to a gas supply is from the 150mm space underneath the oven housing. As that's about 500mm deep then the gas fitter would have to have long arms, mirrors and the patience of a bloody saint if he was to fit it using a rigid pipe.
All those on here who say they must be fitted with a rigid pipe are talking the proverbial.

 

[Terrywookfit]

Built in gas ovens almost always require a flexible hose. How on earth can they be fitted otherwise? The unit they are built into usually goes right back to the wall. The only room there is to connect it to a gas supply is from the 150mm space underneath the oven housing. As that's about 500mm deep then the gas fitter would have to have long arms, mirrors and the patience of a bloody saint if he was to fit it using a rigid pipe.
All those on here who say they must be fitted with a rigid pipe are talking the proverbial.

Unless they cut a bl**din great hole in the adjoining units to access the back.
It would be fun trying to repair it.

 

[bengasman]

...All those on here who say they must be fitted with a rigid pipe are talking the proverbial.

Contrary to what a lot of builders, brickies, carpenters and kitchen fitters believe: the GSIUR are primarily to ensure safety, not to regulate RGI's in such a way that they have to make life easy for builders.

I know it makes no sense, but the general view is that the looks of a kitchen are secondary to safety.

 

[joinerjohn]

The fitter could always cut a great big hole in the wall behind the oven, connect up then brick up the hole again.

What a great idea. Do I win a tenner??