cooker instal regulations (unit height above cooker)

[admin]

hello just a question

i know with gas cooker installations there is a minimum height above and next to the cooker that the surrounding units must be, this is usually stated in the installation hand book, if not then i believe you work of off the guidlines of 750mm above burner and at least 450mm either side of the cooker, but i went to instal a new electric cooker yesterday, a hotpoint 60cm ceramic oven and there were units directly above it that were only 350mm away from the top of the ceramic top.
it never had any recomendations in the cooker but i said this was too low and a fire hazard / risk and i refused to instal the appliance, was i right in refusing? and is there a standard minimum distance requirement for electric cookers? if so where is this stated

Thanks

simon ❓

[presser]

Re: cooker instal regulations (unit height above cooker)

I’d have refused as well.Minimum distance for a hood over ceramic is 450mm,but even that surely is to close for a unit.

I should qualify that………thats for a Miele hob and hood.

[wards]

Re: cooker instal regulations (unit height above cooker)

i have to agree with presser,i too have come across this situation and have also refused to install due to clearance issues,corgi recommends in the absence of manufacturers instructions the minimum clearance should be 600mm.customers not to happy,but better safe than sued.

[admin]

i knew i was right not to do it, customer however was being a idiot saying “where does it say you cant fit it? if it doesnt say you cant fit it then fit it…”

[lee8]

Re: cooker instal regulations (unit height above cooker)

Ring the brand for spec info, should be in the instructions, if not check with British Standards.

http://www.bsigroup.com/en/ProductServi … n-Testing/

[shaun67]

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appleelectrics wrote:i knew i was right not to do it, customer however was being a idiot saying “where does it say you cant fit it? if it doesnt say you cant fit it then fit it…”

Yep you did the right thing ,too close ,i would have also walked away .Better to be safe than sorry.

[Martin]

Re: cooker instal regulations (unit height above cooker)

The diagram below is a useful guideline : –

[DrDill]

Re: cooker instal regulations (unit height above cooker)

As far as i am aware, there is no minimum requirement for electric hobs, this is because of the absence of a flame.
Most Neff electric hobs just state that the units above resist tempatures up to 90 degrees!

[Martin]

Re: cooker instal regulations (unit height above cooker)

DrDill wrote:As far as i am aware, there is no minimum requirement for electric hobs

Gas neither, there are ‘guidelines’ but NO REGULATIONS WHATSOEVER……..CORGI (Gas Safe) only give guidlines too and as such recommend a minimum distance of 760mm below a cupboard or 600 below an extractor hood.

Any installer with an ounce of braincell would conclude that, be it gas or leccy, anything less than 760mm is darn right foolish in the extreme!

600mm below a cooker hood/extractor is a total nonesense by virtue of the fact most people are in excess of 5 feet tall. So every time you check to see how your vindaloo is brewing on the back burner you will no doubt come into contact with the cooker hood!

Such an installation would also need an extraction rate of 3 cubic meters per second just to clear the steam from a egg-boiling pan, if only so you could find the pan in the misty haze.

[lee8]

Re: cooker instal regulations (unit height above cooker)

It is a regulation, only it does not state “cupboards” but flammable materials, which include hoods.Every gas cooker installation instruction will give a min distance from burner and any found falling below that distance is deemed an AR situation and must be dealt with appropriately.

The big issue with Gas Regulations is its written by people for people with a brain, but as most trainers will tell you, there is a sub category of humans containing a unique level of intellect that interprets those regulations in a different way, which is why there are so many mistakes and cock ups, some of them epic-ally dumb.

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