Help, my oven is broken and no one will fit a new one

[LittlePickleHead]

We have a gorgeous, expensive bespoke kitchen that we inherited with our house that we bought 7 years ago. it’s Formica faced beech ply with granite work surfaces. The cooker is freestanding, with the space cut into the granite, and the extractor is built into the cupboards above.

the oven has broken a few times, it’s gas and a couple of years ago we ordered a new one with fitting and they ended up having to take it away as the distance to the bottom of the extractor/cupboards is 60cm and the regulations say it has to be 65cm. We’ve managed to get it fixed a few times but now it’s completely given up the ghost.

i thought we might be ok replacing with induction, but the regulations seem to now be the same for any type of cooker.

we can’t afford to get the whole kitchen replaced, or even the cupboards as the cost of the Formica has spiralled ( we recently got quoted £3.5k to install an additional tall cupboard!).

any creative ideas what we can do? I guess we could see whether a carpenter could somehow modify the cupboards so they are shorter by 5cm but I assume that will also be really costly.

I assume that the regulations must have changed since the kitchen was installed (it’s probably about 10 years old) so others must have encountered similar issues?

Get a second hand oven and get a gas safe handyman to fit it

The cupboards are askew over the oven hob anyway so they look a bit odd to be fair

Im itnerested in your ducting though, I have an extractor which cannot vent outside anymore because we got a conservatory. I hate the fact there is no outside vent, we could manage it with ducting though, yours doesnt look too bad.

They can fit in a cabinet of any size. I prefer one wider than the hob to catch steam or odours that drift sideways as they rise.

You can get extractor boxes of various widths. I prefer the widest one that will fit.

As for height, I always recommend that the bottom of the enclosure should be higher than your head, so you can't bash your face into it when peering into a pan of bouillabaise.

Some people read the instructions for the minimum permitted gap between hob and extractor, and make the mistake of thinking that is the "correct" or obligatory height. It is not.

Also not understanding who you are asking to fit.

Just buy an oven. They just deliver.

Then find an electrician to connect it.

If needs be just shove it in the hole and say your partner disconnected it and you are fuming he will connect it wrong so you want it done professionally.

Go to the bottom where it says "technical dimensions "

I think I managed to copy the link fir a sample diagram now.

Try
www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Technical/DataSheets/Elica_2018/ELERASTD60_Line.pdf