Swapping from a gas hob to an electric ceramic hob

[ban-all-sheds]

You cant design for all.

No, but you can, and must, design appliances which are at the heart of a place of work, and absolutely vital to the work which takes place there, in ways which do not include subordinating the functionality of them to their appearance.

Its a mass market.

There's no reason why the masses have to have their appliances compromised by idiot designers with screwed up priorities.

Lift the pan, adjust, replace pan.

1) Can be very inconvenient - large, quality pans can be quite heavy, even empty.

2) With the base of the pan overlapping the knob there's a good chance it will be damaged by heat spread.

 

[diyer2011]

Weighing up whether to go with a cheapo or a neff glass gas thing.

Bit of a problem with that Neff glass thing.

With a to-scale representation of a large frying pan centred over one of the front rings:

Very well spotted / thought out! Annoying as it's one that I found most attractive.

What I've found is my current cutout is 55cm x 48cm, it's quite an old stainless hob (brand begins with b but escapes me, not bosch or beko).
Ideally I want something I can drop in as the gas man will only want to wait around for me so long, but it looks like I'm going to have to bite the bullet and replace my jigsaw (it died a while ago) and hack it up in situ while he waits. The neff one is a reported 56x49cm , I found an AEG one that john lewis reckon is 55cmx47cm but when I rang the store the chap measured it and said otherwise.

I don't suppose (I'm pretty sure I know the answer!) it's legal for me to turn the isolator valve on the hob's pipework, check no gas comes out and then disconnect it myself so I can do all the prep work ready for the gasman?

 

[Aragorn84]

As far as i'm aware, If its a bayonet fitting, then yes you can remove it.

 

[diyer2011]

As far as i'm aware, If its a bayonet fitting, then yes you can remove it.

Quick way to tell if it's a bayonet fitting? I can upload a picture but I have a nasty feeling that used to be the case but isn't any longer.

 

[Aragorn84]

Post a pic if you want.

Looks something like this:

 

[diyer2011]

Bugger, it previously looked like that but the gasman changed it when I did the kitchen so it was hard piped, unless it's more to do with the connection to the hob than the material of the piping?

 

[holmslaw]

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[ban-all-sheds]

They are if the manufacturer says they are.

 

[diyer2011]

b*****r, it previously looked like that but the gasman changed it when I did the kitchen so it was hard piped, unless it's more to do with the connection to the hob than the material of the piping?

Thats because he did the job properly, flexible pipes and bayonet fittings are not allowed on hobs.

The manufacturer does say they are allowed , I remember the gasman pointing this out but advising to go hard-piped, looks like he's also fitted an isolator which makes it very tempting to turn off and remove the hob so I can prep the worktop with plenty of time. But ho-hum if it's dangerous I'll leave it he's a nice enough bloke he might not mind waiting around.