New cooker

[vinoandbrie]

Sorry for such a boring thread.

We have bought a new cooker online, to replace ours, which is very much on its way out. We have paid for disconnection and removal of the old cooker, and connection of the new one.

They have now sent me a list of instructions which say that the cooker has got to have 7.5cms each side clear of cabinets. Am attaching a photo as am not explaining very well. On one side of ours, the space is only 5cms! I am now worried that they won’t fit it.

I guess when the old cooker was fitted it adhered to the rules at the time. Will they just not fit my cooker? Should I cancel it? Will we have this issue with every single cooker? May I as well just knock my kitchen down and start from scratch? 😬😭

Going by that pic, doesn't that just refer to the cabinets on the wall above the cooker? And not needing a gap 7.5cm next to the cooker? Do you have wall cabinets within that 'zoned' area?

I agree - it's above the cooker not either side of the actual oven.

Thank you for this.

I’m looking at the two horizontal arrows that say 7.5cms. On one side, our gap is only 5cms.

This is for a wall cabinet.

How wide is your new cooker, if it is 60cm you can get 55cm ones if the worst came to the worst as that would be ok with the wall cupboard but you would have a gap/bigger gap at the bottom next to the floor cabinets.

It’s 120cms.

I had this issue in the summer: The door of our ancient oven (25+ years!) had fallen apart. I needed a new oven since no one could replace the ancient door (oven worked fine). There was a shelf above the cooker in the 'hot zone'. I unscrewed it and propped it up above the door. Oven chaps came, installed the oven and left. I put the shelf back in place (it's jolly useful).

I don’t think I can take these cabinets off the wall myself. Or put them back up. I could cry!

I bet you can't get 195 cm ones, we had this with regs being more strict and had to change from gas to electric with our cooker because the window was too close or something like that. I was going to say maybe remove the cabinet and put it back later

What's the distance vertically between the worktop and the wall units either side? If it's more than 40cm it might be okay. Download the installation manual/request it from the manufacturer and give it a proper study.

Thank you for that. It is 40cms exactly. The extract above is from the installation guide. I will call the delivery people (who I’ve paid to do the installation) tomorrow and ask them. I don’t want them to deliver an oven we can’t use 😭 It’s so expensive too, I’m stressed 😩

I found when I was researching cookers there were the official gas and electric regulations, manufacturers regulations and then guidelines so I would look to see which these are with your cooker, it could be that another brand is different and will fit, also different fitters will follow different ones so I would first check what the official regulations are and go from there, if the official ones say 5cm then a different brand may fit, it seems to be different for gas and electric. I found it was a bit of a minefield, we changed from gas to electric as the electric ones weren't as severe.

A side thing, and i could be wrong, but it might be due to worry that the heat will affect those wall cabinets.
Most cabinets, and kitchen doors, are 'vinyl wraps' nowadays. They don't do particularly well if they're within 'hot zones'. It wouldn't necesarily stop you getting the oven, but it might give your cabs trouble down the line.