Want to take cooker and hood to new house. How to plan this?

[Sandrine1982]

Hi. I'm just wondering if we need to plan this a few days before completion and get a specialist to disconnect the gas cooker and hood?
Or can the removal company guys do this??

I'm clueless ....

Yes, as the cooker will be hard wired in.

Whenever I have had a gas cooker, it's been attached using a Bayonet fixing - push and twist. The first time I needed one moved, I thought I needed an engineer. He turned up, was there about 30 seconds, and looked at me like I was an idiot. I always did it myself after that.

You're supposed to have a gas Safe registered engineer remove even a bayonet fitting and an electrician to disconnect the hardwiring of a wired in oven.

Sorry for being an idiot but both the cooker and the oven are gas. Errr... the only electric thingy might be the sparkle switch thing? Can I really not find a specialist who will disconnect both? Do I need two separate guys?

The ignition may be battery powered or plug in. Do you know how it's powered? Check the oven manual for info.

Do you really want the hood though? It's too small for the big range cooker underneath it. If you are keeping the range, i would save the money it would cost to remove the small hood and a buy a new one that is the right size.

@ChequerBoard - I agree sunk cost and what it costs to remove could go towards a better hood.