Gas tap position for gas hob?

What are the current requirements for the position of a gas tap feeding a gas hob. As I understand it the current regs state that there must be a gas tap but does it have to be positioned next to the gas hob or can it be on the gas feed but in another room through which the pipe passes?

Reply to
Steve North
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The service valve or bayonet connection must be within reach of the hob / stove, so they are normally fitted next to, under or beside the appliance. You'll also have to make the fixed hob connection with rigid pipework between the service valve and the hob inlet. Flexible pipework is now NOT allowed with fixed appliances.

Have a read through this site:

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more information on safe gas installations.

Reply to
BigWallop

Thanks very much for the reply, however you've confused me a little. At the moment I have a hob on a flexible gas hose which terminates in a bayonet fitting on a sturdy wall mounted connector above and behind the oven. The pipework from this to the supply is all rigid copper.

Now are you saying that the bayonet connection and the rest of the installation as it stands is adequate 'without' a gas tap, so that I don't need to add an isolating tap to get it up to current regs? Or do I need an isolating tap as well as the bayonet connector? I have read the faq but it doesn't appear to clarify this.

When you say flexible pipework not allowed do you mean the rubber flexible hose or some sort of flexible copper connection?

The hose has been there for about ten years and is in very good condition. What I really want to know I suppose is would it pass a corgi inspection as it stands now? Any more help well appreciated!

Steve

Reply to
Steve North

The bayonet connector will do for a service isolator for the cooker or hob or oven it supplies.

I thought the FAQ made it clear that flexible hoses (at the end of which is a bayonet connector) were not absolutely ruled out but difficult to install in a way that complies with all the regs.

Reply to
Ed Sirett

That's interesting - we're just refitting our kitchen and have had gas point installed for a hob which is to be installed in a worktop. This point is bayonet, and the built-under oven will be electric. Re-reading all the info in this thread and skimming the FAQ again, does this mean that the hob should *not* connect to the bayonet? We specified it was to be for a hob rather than a stand-alone cooker, and the plumber is fully Corgi etc...

How about a tumble dryer? We do not yet have a gas one, but are planning one in the next few years - are these allowed to connect by bayonet these days? At the same time as gas to the kitchen we had gas put into the utility room, though it is just a capped-off stub pipe through the ceiling at the moment.

Hwyl!

M.

Reply to
Martin Angove

Instruction book for our new dual-fuel cooker delivered a few days ago (moreover a new model which has only just come onto the market) says "connection to the cooker should be made with an approved appliance flexible connection to BS 669... the length of hose chosen should be such that when the cooker is in situ, the hose does not touch the floor". Pretty well mandates a bayonet fitting as far as I can see. Of course hobs may be different, given the easier access in principle when they are in place.

Reply to
rrh

He must have misunderstood the requirements. Or possibly put a bayonet end on for the time being with a view to removing it and putting in fixed pipework later when installing the hob. It is likely against the instructions for the hob to use a flexible hose. The oven underneath the hob makes the use of a hose impossible.

About the only way a flexible hose could be used is if there were a completly wasted void underneath the hob.

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Ed Sirett

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