Not allowed new appliance

[SSH]

So my mother in in her 70s and her cooker has stopped working. A couple of folks have looked at it and are unable to repair it. She’s OK to buy a new one, but when she went to John Lewis they told her that new building regulations do not allow a new appliance to be installed in that position in the kitchen because the windowsill stick out slightly over the hob, or something (this is 3rd hand, so not sure exactly). Her cookers have been in the same place in that kitchen for the last 45 years without any issue! There’s also a limited number of places where else it could go. Is she really going to have to pay 10s of thousands to get the kitchen entirely redone or is someone at JL overzealously applying some rules? Any advice on this would be much appreciated, as they’ve now gone 2 weeks without a cooker and no end in sight!

[electrofix]

don’t know about any regs but first

what is the cooker and what is wrong with it ?

Dave

[SSH]

She didn’t say… it blew 2 fuses in 2 weeks though, second time making the whole house go dark. I’m 2 hours away, so can’t really do any DIY fixes.

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