Gap between cooker and wall

[yartin]

Hi
I sent a gas engineer to replace a gas cooker at a rental property but made a mess of it, there is gap between wall and cooker as in pics. What part can I put there?

 

[CountryFan]

I don’t see how the gas engineer made a mess of it with the gas pipe seemingly protruding from the wall. I’d say a different cooker is what made the mess. Regards the gap, quadrant tiles?

 

[simplesteve]

Wow! Hang on a minute Yartin.........How has the G.E. made a mess of it ?
You mean he didn't move a gas pipe or valve after you no doubt told him " just put the cooker in there" ?

 

[yartin]

I don’t see how the gas engineer made a mess of it with the gas pipe seemingly protruding from the wall. I’d say a different cooker is what made the mess. Regards the gap, quadrant tiles?

Quadrant tiles? Hanging in the air?

 

[yartin]

Wow! Hang on a minute Yartin.........How has the G.E. made a mess of it ?
You mean he didn't move a gas pipe or valve after you no doubt told him " just put the cooker in there" ?

There is no gas pipe, cookers don't go all the way back to the wall. The work top was one piece and he cut the bit behind the cooker.

 

[yartin]

There is nothing behind cooker. I called him, he came he took it out but couldn't push it back and he left as it is, pathetic.

He cut plinth with multitool. I was shocked, he was lazy to get jigsaw from the van!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

He was a gas fitter, not a kitchen fitter, or joiner. There must be a pipe of some sort at the back of that cooker, and space needed to accommodate that pipe.

 

[simplesteve]

There is nothing behind cooker. I called him, he came he took it out but couldn't push it back and he left as it is, pathetic.

You are wrong. You can clearly see the gas pipe in your 3rd photo

 

[Murdochcat]

A bad workman always blames his tools

 

[simplesteve]

You mean ' a bad customer blames his workmans tools' lol

 

[yartin]

He was a gas fitter, not a kitchen fitter, or joiner. There must be a pipe of some sort at the back of that cooker, and space needed to accommodate that pipe.

Then he shouldn't have taken the job, he's been to the property to quote for the works. He knew what's required.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Then he shouldn't have taken the job, he's been to the property to quote for the works. He knew what's required.

You invited a gas fitter, to fit a gas oven. The gas fitter fitted the oven as you requested. Sometimes a job might involve more than one trade, to make a satisfactory outcome - this seems to have been one of those jobs.

 

[simplesteve]

IMHO the only thing the gas fitter has done wrong is fail to manage your expectations.

 

[yartin]

IMHO the only thing the gas fitter has done wrong is fail to manage your expectations.

He did it wrong, the worktop was extending behind the cooker area but he carelessly cut it out without doing his calculations; hence we ended by the gap otherwise would have been perfect. There was gas hob before siting on the worktop before.

 

[yartin]

This is an old pic of the kitchen with the gas hob, I don't have a close up but can be guessed the hob was sitting on the worktop, but foolishly he cut the worktop part behind the hob; exactly where salt/pepper pots sit in the photo and that's why we have the gap now.