Gas cooker extraction fan

[sPONiX]

What are the regulations relating to a cooker with an eye level grill with regards to using an extraction hood?

sPoNiX

[Lobster]

"Don't do it" AFAIK!

(at least, I remember the hood I recently fitted cam with a warning not to use it with eye level grills) David

[sPoNiX]

Is there a minimum distance? Is it different for different cookers?

sPoNiX

[sPoNiX]

Let me follow that up by saying that I have been told conflicting information. One source says extractors are OK so long as there is

600mm clearance..another source says that extractors should not be used under any circumstances with a gas cooker yet another source says that extractors are OK so long as they are re-circulatory.

sPoNiX

[Owain]

"sPoNiX" wrote | Let me follow that up by saying that I have been told | conflicting information. One source says extractors | are OK so long as there is 600mm clearance..

Hmmm.

| another source says that extractors should not be used | under any circumstances with a gas cooker

That's 99.9% of all commercial kitchens f'cked then.

| yet another source says that extractors are OK so | long as they are re-circulatory.

Which aren't extractors, then, and are useless for removing steam and not great at removing odours.

Owain

[John Stumbles]

From the cooker POV you have to have a clearance above the top of the cooker of a certain amount (600 or 750 off the top of my head, but I'd have to look it up to be sure), or whatever the cooker mfr says if that is different.

From the extractor manufacturer's POV it'll be down to what they say in their instructions, as long as it satisfies the cooker clearance too.

[Rob Morley]

So your head is a gas cooker?

[Peter]

No he is the same hight as a high level grill gas cooker

Peter

[Ed Sirett]

It can be. Most manufacturers seem to follow the regulations laid out in a BS normative document, unless they have particular reasons to state otherwise.

Off the top of my head I think the clearance to _combustible_ materials must be >600mm above a cooker with (h)eye-level grill.

[Ed Sirett]

Especially since commercial catering appliances have a stack of regs which _require_ seriously large amounts extraction.

With all these matters it is what the manufacturers state both of the cooker and the extractor.

[Peter]

And take the greater of the two if they differ

Peter