Hi everyone - sorry for another off topic thread but I have just bought a house last week and moved in over ther weekend. I want to replace the current electric cooker with a gas hob/Electric cooker and wondered if anyone knows anything about what is required and how much I'm likely to pay for the install?!
Believe it or not I am moving back to Sunderland next week and I'm looking to replace the gas cooker with an electric one (ceramic flat top thing like I have here in Germany) I will be interested in the replies you get Marcus.
Depends whether you have the pipes installed to run the gas from the mains. If not, that could cost a bit. Installing an electric oven and hub can be simpler, but you need to determine if you have the right outlets/cabling in place for what you're trying to fit. Some hob/ovens need two connections. You need a sparky to wire the oven/hob in to confirm to building regs. No idea how much it would cost like, depends on the 'infra/piping' required. If you have the wiring/pipes in place it is very easy to fit. I had a new electric oven fitted to my gaff a year or so ago and was only an hours work as the cabling/electrics were already in place. Sorry, not much help.
Depends if you're plumbed in for gas fella in the kitchen. If you can't see the gas pipe, have a look for a concealed one, it will look like an unnecessary strip of wall is protruding along one wall, chances are there's a gas feed in there with the water pipe. If you have no gas feed, you'll need one ran from the nearest connection or the boiler. I'm ripping my kitchen out and the floor up just to move the gas feed to the other side of the room, the previous owner thought it would be a good idea to put a gas hob under the window... lean over to open the window, click, click, click human fireball.
Last time I had it done was with all pipework and fittings already there and it coast about £40. Took the bloke about 10 minutes
Cheers guys very useful. I haven't yet had the electric oven out of it's current position so don't know what fittings there are but will have a check tonight.
It might not necessarily be plumbed where your current oven is mate so don't discount if you don't see it right away. When you took ownership you should have got this info as part of the mountain of docs the conveyancers give you by the way.
