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Oven

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Leguminosae · 05/05/2026 18:40

Please help me.
I have a gas hob set inside my kitchen worktop.
Underneath the worktop is an integrated electric oven.
Both are broken.
I need them both taken out and I want a freestanding electric oven with electric hob all in one to be fitted.
Help.
How do I do this??
I've phoned various companies who sell ovens (Curry's, AO.com, etc.) and they're all saying they only install like for like.
What do I do?
Working single parent and ND and no family whatsoever apart from my own children so these things send me in to a stress and I don't know how to get this sorted. I literally dont know.
Surely I don't have to employ a gas engineer to disconnect the gas hob, an electrician to disconnect the electric integrated oven, a carpenter to cut the worktop to fit a freestanding oven, and an oven fitter to fit it? These different tradesmen will cost way more than the cost of a new oven itself!
Very worried, need an oven and hob, don't know how to sort this.
I don't want another integrated oven with gas hob.
I want a freestanding electric oven. But should it be this complicated?

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Christmastimemisteloeandwine · 05/05/2026 18:43

I’m not expert but I think you’d need a gas fitter to remove the hob and safely cap off the gas supply to start with. Gas is best not fucked around with, you need a pro.

sesquipedalian · 05/05/2026 18:46

As a matter of interest, why do you want a freestanding electric cooker? I think most people change the type of oven they have when they’re-fit their kitchen - otherwise, you’ll definitely have to have a gas person to take your gas hob out, no matter what you replace it with, and an oven fitter is not a carpenter. Your only alternative is to buy the appliance yourself, and then employ a kitchen fitter to put it in - but when I had my kitchen done, they employed a separate person for gas anyway. If it’s going to be hideously expensive and difficult, consider changing like for like, or changing your gas hob for an electric one, if that’s what you want. It would be a lot easier!

Blueseudeshoes · 05/05/2026 18:47

Get the gas sorted by a gas engineer its too dangerous to be messed with.
unsure about the rest of it but if you can’t afford multiple trades people in to help do it properly and safely you’ll have to just get curry’s/ao to install the same again

sunflowersandsunsets · 05/05/2026 18:51

You definitely need a gas engineer to remove anything gas-related. It's way too dangerous to risk doing anything else.

I would get a gas engineer to remove the hob, then replace the current electric oven with a new one? Yes, you may need to get a carpenter in as well to sort your work surfaces out but that's the problem with integrated stuff like that.

Leguminosae · 05/05/2026 19:08

sesquipedalian · 05/05/2026 18:46

As a matter of interest, why do you want a freestanding electric cooker? I think most people change the type of oven they have when they’re-fit their kitchen - otherwise, you’ll definitely have to have a gas person to take your gas hob out, no matter what you replace it with, and an oven fitter is not a carpenter. Your only alternative is to buy the appliance yourself, and then employ a kitchen fitter to put it in - but when I had my kitchen done, they employed a separate person for gas anyway. If it’s going to be hideously expensive and difficult, consider changing like for like, or changing your gas hob for an electric one, if that’s what you want. It would be a lot easier!

Well, I inherited the current integrated oven and gas hob when I moved in. I find my integrated oven very small. I do so much cooking and baking on a daily basis, I really want a better sized oven. I've been looking at freestanding ovens and they look like they have bigger capacity, which I want. I really can't fit much in my integrated one. Plus I have seen that freestanding single width ovens have 2 oven sections - a larger oven and a smaller oven, which I think would be ideal.
I need to get rid of having a gas bob because im trying to get my 14 year old DS to start some basic cooking, and I don't have confidence that he's safe around gas. I can imagine him leaving a gas ring on that's unignited and wandering off to a different room without realising. So an electric hob will be safer from that aspect. And that got me thinking a freestanding all in one oven with larger oven, smaller oven and electric hob would be ideal.
But it sounds too complicated...

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hahabahbag · 05/05/2026 19:22

You need a certified gas engineer to cap off the gas, this is non negotiable, you potentially need an electrician to disconnect the current oven and install a higher rating of power if you don’t have suitable now and a handyman to sort worktops etc. you may find one person who can do all of this. My father sorted mine but he was a builder at the time

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