Gas Hob - Poor Control

[fred812]

Hi All, we have just replaced an old Indesit gas hob with a dual fuel Stoves cooker. Have to admit that I am slightly dissappointed with the control sensitivity for the gas hob. Basically there is full flame when the controls reach about 50% travel. Its the same for all 4. After that there is no change. It was similar on the the old Indesit.

Is this likely to be a household gas pressure issue or something to do with the cooker?

Any thoughts appreciated.

 

[45yearsagasman]

What does your Gassafe installer have to say?

 

[fred812]

Hi Pete, in case you are implying that I did it myself, I didn't and I did use a GasSafe installer, but I wasn't in when he did it, the form was signed off by my wife. I have a Gas Safety Inspection Report with no comment in relation to the gas controls on the cooker.

The intention of my post was to get a view on whether this is likely to be a gas pressure issue that might be fixable or crap contros on the cooker which can't.

 

[Agile]

Basically there is full flame when the controls reach about 50% travel. Its the same for all 4. After that there is no change. It was similar on the the old Indesit.

Is this likely to be a household gas pressure issue or something to do with the cooker?

Any thoughts appreciated.

Does that not suggest to you that its the way most cooker controls operate?

To help you, I have just checked the Stoves Precission 1100 range dual fuel here and its as you describe! The control is over about 60° between 7 oc and 9 oc !

Tony

 

[Gasguru]

It's probably because manufacturers make the same hob to work on natural gas and lpg so the gas taps have to work over a wide range of pressures. The result being poor control.

On my hob the gas tap only really operates for about a 1/3 of the range.

Was the working pressure checked...perhaps it's too high, if there's a minimum flame setting was this adjusted?

 

[fred812]

Ok, thanks for the replies. It seems to point to poor controls though without your input I could not have concluded that, it could I suppose be a pressure problem at my house.

I'm not aware of the gas pressure being checked this time though I do recall that the engineer that serviced the boiler last year did investigate pressure.