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Client with a 50s house that has apparently always been like this wants to change their self standing gas cooker, and obviously fitters are not going to currently.
Any gas experts who can qualify exactly what the regulations say, as there seems to be some variety in the way it's described online.
The cooker point is actually only serving the ignition and comes through the wall from a room behind it which is effectively a shed, so cabling is in trunking.
My current plan for minimal necessary work is to relocate the cooker point onto the reverse side of the wall, and run a 2.5 feed from that down and back through the wall to a single socket at low level which will be behind the cooker, for the ignition plug. The gas feed comes up about 100mm away from the wall so there is space behind the cooker, and it will be well >150mm to the right of the gas bayonet point for the new cooker.
The light switch is more tricky, but presumably will need to be moved to please the gas fitter (silly place for it anyway but the design of the kitchen limits options)
Is there a specific about what is allowed and what isn't? Are metal switches acceptable but not plastic? (Obviously issues with reaching over, but this is an existing point, not being added...)
I'm currently planning to move it outside the room into the hallway since I can also do that from the room behind. One of the clients has some accessibility issues, and another is short, so moving the switch high enough up to be outside the hot zone is probably not an option.
If moved, this will leave an empty backbox left in the wall - would a plastic faceplate to cover it count as flammable and also be disallowed? What about a metal faceplate?
It will likely be a fitter from Currys or Argos doing this, so needs to be whatever won't give them an excuse to refuse to (though it's only a bayonet fitting)
Having said all that, is wallpaper behind it an issue too? Seems to be mentioned on some sites but not others, and naturally being regulations, they don't appear to be open access to anyone who doesn't want to pay for them!
Any gas experts who can qualify exactly what the regulations say, as there seems to be some variety in the way it's described online.
The cooker point is actually only serving the ignition and comes through the wall from a room behind it which is effectively a shed, so cabling is in trunking.
My current plan for minimal necessary work is to relocate the cooker point onto the reverse side of the wall, and run a 2.5 feed from that down and back through the wall to a single socket at low level which will be behind the cooker, for the ignition plug. The gas feed comes up about 100mm away from the wall so there is space behind the cooker, and it will be well >150mm to the right of the gas bayonet point for the new cooker.
The light switch is more tricky, but presumably will need to be moved to please the gas fitter (silly place for it anyway but the design of the kitchen limits options)
Is there a specific about what is allowed and what isn't? Are metal switches acceptable but not plastic? (Obviously issues with reaching over, but this is an existing point, not being added...)
I'm currently planning to move it outside the room into the hallway since I can also do that from the room behind. One of the clients has some accessibility issues, and another is short, so moving the switch high enough up to be outside the hot zone is probably not an option.
If moved, this will leave an empty backbox left in the wall - would a plastic faceplate to cover it count as flammable and also be disallowed? What about a metal faceplate?
It will likely be a fitter from Currys or Argos doing this, so needs to be whatever won't give them an excuse to refuse to (though it's only a bayonet fitting)
Having said all that, is wallpaper behind it an issue too? Seems to be mentioned on some sites but not others, and naturally being regulations, they don't appear to be open access to anyone who doesn't want to pay for them!
