Removal of a Gas Oven.

[Vickster0308]

Ok so i should have thought ahead a bit more but i didn't. this is a last minute panic so any help would be very much appreicited!

Tommorrow we're having a brand spanking new Electric cooker delivered. At the moment we have a grotty brown new world gas cooker that barely works. I need to remove the aforementioned pile of junk to get the new sparkly white oven in place.

All well and good but I don't know HOW to disconnect it. It has a flexible black rubber pipe which is connected either end with brass coloured metal rims. the one connected to the pipe coming from the wall is about a 2/3 cm's away from the end of the actual gas pipe.

Firstly can I remove it without blowing myself up?

If I can remove it do I need to turn off at the mains?

Do I need any specialist bits and bobs to remove it?

Please be as clear as you can...as I am easily baffled!

Thank you!

 

[breezer]

without seeing it its hard to be sure, but it sounds like a bayonet pipe, you push and twist it (the knurled bit) similarly as you would a lamp

 

[Vickster0308]

Thank you

there isn't really much more i can tell you....excpet it does seem to be push-upable *L*

can you post photo's here? because i have a digital cam..I could take a picture and post it.....if I can...or email it to someone if they were willing to help a damsel in distress...if that would be of any help at all.

 

[breezer]

see here 2nd post down

 

[Vickster0308]

Ok *crosses fingers*

 

[breezer]

try again, cant see image

 

[Vickster0308]

It's ok...it was a bayonet fitting...*L* I have a new question to ask though.


Ok so iget my brand spanking new electric cooker and I don't find a plug on it(my old electric cooker just plugged into a mains socket) and after making a fool of myself talking to customer service I find out i need a cable and a cooker power switch in my kitchen. I haven't got one.
Iceland(who i got the cooker from) arranged for an electrician to come out to it next tuesday and he's meant to be ringing me with an extimate.

Can someone explain to me what he'll do(can he just adapt the cooker to mains or will a power switch and cable have to be installed) and how much would people think was a reasonable amount to spend on the work done.


I know..I know...Niave newbie....but any advice and enlightenment would be VERY appreiciated!