Gas socket double adaptor?

[Harry Bloomfield]

Is there such a thing?

Bayonet gas socket for a cooker, which we now need to plug two items into - is there such a thing as a double adapter outlet please?

[RCW2]

I strongly hope there isn't. But SWK may beg to differ.

I suspect you'll need a registered fitter to install a second adapter and advice if your extra appliance is both legal and the supply can cope adequately

[Harry Bloomfield]

RCW2 expressed precisely :

Rather thought there wouldn't be, just thought it worth checking. Supply is much more than adequate, it was installed originally for a free standing double oven including hob. Now installing built in double, with a separate hob - which needs two sockets.

[YAPH]

Do the manufacturer's instructions for the hob even allow it to be on a flexible hose?

[Harry Bloomfield]

It has been in a long time and came with a flexi.

[John Rumm]

Will need a second socket properly installed by the sounds of it...

Given the recent inversion in the wording[1] in BS6172-2010 that is possibly a less relevant question than in the past...

[1] i.e. paraphrasing: effectively changing "fixed pipework unless explicitly instructed/permitted to use flexi by the makers instructions" to "fixed or flexi unless explicitly forbidden by the makers instructions"

[Brian Gaff]

Well that was written by someone hoping nobody would understand it obviously. I often wonder if the people who write such regulations know what they actually mean themselves.

Brian

[charles]

certainly that was true of our local authority in the 70s. They came out with a regulation about RCDs which didn't make any sense at all. I actually wrote and told them so. It was withdrawn a couple of weeks later. Eventually, a regulation that made sense appeared. They'd obviously had to find an Electrical expert to write it for them; I know that had no Electrical Engineers on their staff.

[Huge]

They know exactly what they mean. The problem is conveying that to other people who may be of limited intellect or malicious intent.

[John Rumm]

Well to be fair, my paraphras "11.1.3 A gas hob shall be connected to the termination point by means of rigid pipework or, unless stated otherwise in the manufacturer's instructions, a flexible connector and self-sealing plug-in device conforming to BS 669-1."

Which seems clear enough.

[Harry Bloomfield]

Which I would read as either rigid pipework or a flexi plug in pipe could be used - is that correct?

Makes no difference anyway, all in and working on two flexi pipes.

[John Rumm]

Yup, either rigid copper, or a cooker style hose and bayonet style plug in connector.