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I'm putting in a new kitchen and replacing my old cooker with a gas hob (a Miele KM2010). I've put in an electric oven in another part of the kitchen, so not underneath the hob. I will be putting a kitchen unit where the cooker used to be then worktop above that and mounting the hob in the worktop, fairly standard I believe. There will be drawers below it.
The instructions for the hob give all the positioning details about minimum distances such as 50mm from the back wall, 100mm from the wall unit to the side etc, which is fine and that it needs a rigid connection which is fine. I have found a couple of local gas fitters near me, (Epsom area) on Check A Trade (have no other recommendations, so have had to look on there) who state they are Gas Safe Registered and will be getting one in to install the gas connection. I haven't spoken to them yet.
My question is, in order to minimise the amount of work that he/she has to do, what is the maximum amount of work I can do? For example can I fix the hob in the hole or will the fitter need to take it in and out; do they have to cut the hole themselves; do they need to check the correct distances etc?
The old cooker has a cooker hose into a bayonet fitting; I'll obviously take the cooker out, have to to get the new kitchen unit in, but is the fact that it has a bayonet fitting going to add significantly to the cost? I'm guessing that a rigid connection wouldn't connect to that? Will that mean changing the gas pipe? Not much I can do about it, but I'm trying to plan in terms of budgeting.
Also, and I realise it's how long is a piece of string and depends on lots of things, but for the minimum work that the fitter has to do how much roughly am I looking at? The ones I have chosen are local; no issues with either on or off street parking where I am. I know that they are the best people to ask, but it's nice to go in with an idea of a ball park figure.
I'm putting in a new kitchen and replacing my old cooker with a gas hob (a Miele KM2010). I've put in an electric oven in another part of the kitchen, so not underneath the hob. I will be putting a kitchen unit where the cooker used to be then worktop above that and mounting the hob in the worktop, fairly standard I believe. There will be drawers below it.
The instructions for the hob give all the positioning details about minimum distances such as 50mm from the back wall, 100mm from the wall unit to the side etc, which is fine and that it needs a rigid connection which is fine. I have found a couple of local gas fitters near me, (Epsom area) on Check A Trade (have no other recommendations, so have had to look on there) who state they are Gas Safe Registered and will be getting one in to install the gas connection. I haven't spoken to them yet.
My question is, in order to minimise the amount of work that he/she has to do, what is the maximum amount of work I can do? For example can I fix the hob in the hole or will the fitter need to take it in and out; do they have to cut the hole themselves; do they need to check the correct distances etc?
The old cooker has a cooker hose into a bayonet fitting; I'll obviously take the cooker out, have to to get the new kitchen unit in, but is the fact that it has a bayonet fitting going to add significantly to the cost? I'm guessing that a rigid connection wouldn't connect to that? Will that mean changing the gas pipe? Not much I can do about it, but I'm trying to plan in terms of budgeting.
Also, and I realise it's how long is a piece of string and depends on lots of things, but for the minimum work that the fitter has to do how much roughly am I looking at? The ones I have chosen are local; no issues with either on or off street parking where I am. I know that they are the best people to ask, but it's nice to go in with an idea of a ball park figure.
