Gas cooker hose
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The fitting doesn’t have to point down, perhaps you read about the hose?
It should hang freely down avoiding any stress and if excessive heat, grater then 70 degrees, is anticipated, then a flexible connection should not be used.
There’s nothing wrong (looking at the fitting), and therefore the landlord won’t pay for a change. You could ask your installer if it will interfere with the pushing back of the cooker, to change it, shouldn’t cost that much extra.
Edit: the cooker point should be secured, which it isn’t.
It should hang freely down avoiding any stress and if excessive heat, grater then 70 degrees, is anticipated, then a flexible connection should not be used.
There’s nothing wrong (looking at the fitting), and therefore the landlord won’t pay for a change. You could ask your installer if it will interfere with the pushing back of the cooker, to change it, shouldn’t cost that much extra.
Edit: the cooker point should be secured, which it isn’t.
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Micropoint hoses invariably have a bent connection therefore the hose, once connected will naturally point downwards. The fitting on the wall is a bent wall plate elbow to allow it to be fixed to the wall properly, nothing wrong with that.
Technically there would be some form of stop/anti tilt foot put on the floor to ensure the cooker is secured and would stop it from being pushed back too far and impact with the hose/connection. Could they have used a straigh wall plate, guess so. Could do with an isolation point on that pipe too.
Technically there would be some form of stop/anti tilt foot put on the floor to ensure the cooker is secured and would stop it from being pushed back too far and impact with the hose/connection. Could they have used a straigh wall plate, guess so. Could do with an isolation point on that pipe too.
The ones in the sheds usually do, yep. Anything to do with gas though I'd go with the brass fittings everytime but that's just me
plastic ones are designed for fire safety to cut the gas off in the event of a fire.
so in the event of a house fire far better than brass stops the fire being fed with uncontrolled gas for longer
The vast majority of those elbows in photo are garden tap elbows and as such not really designed for gas
far better to have straight wall plate gets it tighter to the wall
.https://www.screwfix.com/p/straight...Vw-vtCh2pmAVHEAQYAyABEgKnUPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
far better to have straight wall plate gets it tighter to the wall
.https://www.screwfix.com/p/straight...Vw-vtCh2pmAVHEAQYAyABEgKnUPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
Wonder if they'll adopt that for bayonet somehow, given they seem to be used more often.
they already have them for the bulky bayonet type to , it has a plastic part that melts allowing gas to shut off , as for more often used that is a regional thing micropoint in the east midlands as well as other areas of the country have been the more widely used coming on for 40 years
Excellent, need to watch out for that, long time since I've fitted a cooker and I don't remember them pointing that out in the ACS.
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