kitchen cooker/hob safezones

[ETAF]

I know there has been a lot of discussion on bath safezones and how wrong they are
In a kitchen
replacing a cooker and hob, how far away do the sockets need to be.
My son is looking to replace a cooker and was with his mum and Currya have refused to install because they are too close ....

any details would help, and perhaps a link , so i can send it to him

I have seen this morning, 100mm from edge of cooker , and also 300mm from edge.

thanks

 

[EFLImpudence]

Curry's would have found another reason not to fit the appliance if there had been no socket.

There are no rules - just common sense.

 

[ETAF]

interesting , thats what I thought having , looked for a similar question when my daughter was looking into it some years ago...
Thanks

I suspect AO.com will be the same .......
he will need it connected ....

but then as an existing circuit , i guess anyone can connected a replacement hop and cooker

EDIT
just been told its a GAS cooker, freestanding , and it was the normal sockets on the wall that they said need to be a certain distance and sent over some documents
Sorry for that, not getting all the information or not asking the correct questions , depending on point of view

 

[EFLImpudence]

 

[ericmark]

I know my hob at 200°C Reduces Power Boost setting to Power Level 9, at 250°C Reduces power to 60% of power level setting, at 270°C Switches cook zone off, and at 300°C Switches whole appliance off. So there is not much chance of anything near the cooker being damaged. In the main we cook at 100°C a pressure cooker goes up to around 121°C (at 15 PSI) and a frying pan or deep fat fryer around 190°C so with an induction hob most woods will start to burn at around 300°C so even if the cooker hood was made of wood and was 1 foot above the hob there would be very little chance of fire.

Gas however is very different, AO show this on there web site giving the minimum distances

and it would seem prudent to allow same distance for electric as gas, I know when I was fitting cookers years ago we went as a pair electrician and Corgi guy, shows how old now called gas safe, but if the gap was 10 mm too little he would refuse to fit. I would say around 25% of homes visited he would refuse to fit cooker.

On the electrical side I asked for calibrated test equipment, and their minor works certificates, and it seems electricians in the past did no inspection and testing before fitting an electric cooker, and I think I quit after a week as was unwilling to put my name to what we were asked to do, plus the gas guy did all the driving and he was an idiot, and the grease etc behind cookers, I decided to return to industrial electrics.

I looked for clearances with Gas Safe and it seems all they do is direct one to a registered installer. However since in electrics UK I would assume an electric cooker, so really down to common sense.