Suggestions welcome for my cooker problem

[cosmopolitanplease]

I have a 800mm wide cooker and fitted cupboards around it. When I went for this option I didn't anticipate that by 2020 this size of cooker would be extinct 😡

The cooker is on its last legs now and we need to find a replacement, but we can't find a cooker that size. So we're probably going to get a 700mm or 600mm wide cooker but we don't know how to fill the space that will be left either side? The new cooker will have to be centralised in the space iyswim as there is an extractor hood above it.

I thought I would ask on here in case anyone has a simple solution that we haven't thought of. Also, don't buy Smeg cookers they're overpriced and don't last 5 minutes.

Get a second hand one?

Unfortunately there don't seem to be any that size second hand either, I saw one a while ago but it was the same Smeg one that I've got and which I don't want again as it's been so unreliable.

What is either side of it: units/worktops? Could you nibble away each side/nudge units along to fit in a 90cm one. The 70cm ranges are so expensive it might work out cheaper. Otherwise find some "pilasters" to fill the gap but its not a good look.

Also try looking at European suppliers it might be a size you can find in France say. I mean I have no idea how to get it over but it might still work out.

You need some cooker space fillers

ariston.com.au/inventory/freestanding-cooker-cp859mtx/

Aristotle in oz. contact them here see if they can get one ?

Also stoves www.globaltradenetltd.com/stoves/images/Sterling%20800DF-38.pdf

Or save a search on eBay, looks like there was a New Home that size. I see there's one that needs mending. Cookers are often repairable, you can get all the spares, and sometimes older ones were actually better quality.

Also these people say they’re specialist at finding out if stock electrical www.whitakers-appliances.co.uk/cooking/discontinued/

I waited 2 years for a discontinued appliance to come up on eBay/Facebook/gumtree. I probably need a life, but one will come up eventually.

you could fill the space with a pull out doodah....I have a bit of a space next to my cooker atm and was wondering about making one up

Ideas here

you might be wise to go for the 600 oven though as I don't reckon you'd get much in 5 cm if you are centering a 700 cooker!

Thank you all for the replies, I will look in to everything you suggestt. But I think the Australian one will probably be too expensive to ship. Neither of the links to cookers show prices which is quite worrying!

The first cooker we had in the space was a Stoves that lasted about 9 years, then was replaced with the Smeg (cost more than I wanted to spend but was by then the only cooker available that width) which we've had about the same length of time and have had fixed once already, now the oven doesn't warm up properly and two of the rings won't work, and the markings wore off after about 2 years so you have to guess the temperature etc.

Cupboards either side that can't be moved as you can see from the photo.

I wish I'd just got a normal sized cooker when we had the kitchen fitted

We had a similar issue, we took an Aga out and replaced it with a smaller range (1.5 inch gap either side). The two narrow cupboard either side (hand made to fit the original cooker don't have sides, and they have tiled tops so they look awful now the edges are exposed , we've got a carpenter coming to put sides on them (painted pine like the rest of it) and change the tiled tops for beech tops to match the rest of the worktops. So they will look like two individual narrow cupboards iyswim

If you get a 700 with a lip thing between that and the worktop it’ll hardly be noticed it’s only 5 cm each side x

But my worry would be what if you have to change again? Is 700 going to go extinct as well?

(Your kitchen is lovely!)

could you shimmy the worktops along?? have you got an overhang at the other end??