Should we disconnect the cooker??

[Blankiefan]

We're moving next week and are taking our 1year old free standing gas cooker. It's got a bayonette fitting on it.

I'm a bit nervous about DH disconnecting it himself - he thinks it's silly to pay someone to do this as that's why they have these sort of fittings. My biggest concern is that it leaks later and the house explodes (I'm open to the idea I'm displacing all of my moving-related stress onto this one issue!)

Any thoughts?

We disconnected our gas cooker the day before we moved, was a bayonet fitting like yours, and it did leak as we started smelling gas later that day.

We had to call the emergency number and stay up really late for someone to come out and seal it. Not what we needed in all the chaos of moving!

Not sure what to advise. They shouldn't leak, should they, but if you're go

We disconnected our gas cooker the day before we moved, was a bayonet fitting like yours, and it did leak as we started smelling gas later that day.

We had to call the emergency number and stay up really late for someone to come out and seal it. Not what we needed in all the chaos of moving!

Not sure what to advise. They shouldn't leak, should they, but if you're go

Sorry, fat fingers today...

If you're going to disconnect it yourselves then maybe allow time to check for leaks and rectify if needed.

PS. The emergency gas number we called provides free leak fixing, so it didn't cost us anything :)

I have disconnected a gas cooker with a bayonet fitting before, with no problem. In fact, when my kitchen was being gutted and rebuilt a couple of years ago, I disconnected and re-connected the cooker a few times...

It's perfectly legal - see this guidance from Gas Safe. :)