Disconnecting gas cooker in Suffolk - help!

Its a fairly common kitchen injury - typically when someone trips or falls onto an open oven door (or a child stands on it), and that tips the cooker forward enough for the pans to fall off the hob onto the victim.

Have a word with the house clearers... for a few quid I'm sure they'd know how to disconnect it?

I though the chain was less for toppling (cookers don't have a massively high CoG) but more to stop people pulling the cooker out beyond the reach of the pipe (and thus risk breaking the pipe with the attendant gas leak) ?

Is cooker toppling a real risk ?

Dunno...but SWMBO is there right now and she can't move the bayonet fitting at all. Hose won't turn.

After all this time that doesn't surprise me.

I would knock/hammer the locking ring in a few mm.

She might then have a fighting chance of turning it.

Certainly a risk if the oven door opens downwards. Then a child could stand on that and topple the whole thing on top of themselves. That could kill them.

So nothing to do with it being gas then.

And the chances of the oven door being left open, AND pans being on the top, AND someone falling onto it are pretty remote. Anyway, a cooker is VERY heavy, the above scenario is unlikely to cause that problem.

Probably pull the plasterboard or rawl plugs etc out anyway.

The hose shouldn't, unless the connector does as well.

I knew my mother. You did not know yours.

I've ragged 3 of them out. None were chained.

My Mum hated drop down oven doors with a vengeance. We had to wait until the 1990s to replace the 1960s "New World" cooker we had, mainly because it seemed all cookers from the Gas Board (look it up kids) only came with drop down doors.

Here's another blast from the past ... "gas match" :)

I would not be impressed by any house clearer who could not cope! (a bit different if it was a plumbed-in hob).

Agreed. Sticky o-ring? WD40 is another option. It does help if one has done them before, so that you know that you have to push and twist if it is stiff, and not just twist. Same as a light bulb. Anticlockwise.

If there's a gas leak from a split or abraded hose then Transco will come out for free and disconnect the appliance or cap off at the meter.

Owain

The hose doesn't turn. It's not meant to. It's only the knurled collar that turns, and only after you push the hose deeper (usually "up") into the fitting.

Tim

Oh I do, it's her mothers side where a few things on the family tree don't quite add up. Not as bad as her Father though, he was born and lived somewhere around the Oswaldtwistle ,Accrington area. Fortunately any genes that would make me want to wear a flat cap,keep pigeons or a whippet, whine about how hard done by the North always is and a desire to buy garden ornaments in a poundshop and think them classy have had over a century to get washed out.

G.Harman

The problem with that is a chain isn't likely to stop it happening.

Mr Pounder Esquire scribbled

Noted - admission you don't know your father.