Fitting built-in gas hob in worktop with drawers below

Mr_Vee

A quick question to those in the know....

I want to have a gas hob fitted into my worktops and I want the hob to have drawers below it. (like you see in them fancy ikea catalogues, etc)

Would it be possible? As i can just picture it in my head - the gas pipe and whatever beneath the hob would catch on the drawers opening n closing... or am i just plain wrong?! LOL.

thanks...

ariba10

We have a gas hob fitted to a worktop with a freestanding dishwasher below.

The hob fits within the thickness of the worktop so you should be able to fit anything below it.

Mr_Proctalgia

Usually the first drawer is false and the front is merely screwed on for effect. But Yes it does look right.

galthop

I've got a gas hob with drawers below it (real ones, not false). The gas pipe connects at the back and the drawers don't go all the way to the wall so everything fits nicely.

Mine is all done with B&Q units, you don't need any special ones.

Mr_Vee

galthop wrote:

I've got a gas hob with drawers below it (real ones, not false). The gas pipe connects at the back and the drawers don't go all the way to the wall so everything fits nicely.

Mine is all done with B&Q units, you don't need any special ones.

I see I see. Thanks for that info. Im affraid i have no idea what a gas connection or what the underside of a hob looks like! lol.

So let me get this straight, when i install my units... I'm guessing i will have to have the gas man come out at that time right? and he will presumably leave something (some sort of gas safe hose??) that will connect to my hob?

(i.e. before the granite worktop guy comes to fit and secure the heavy granite worktops on top of the base units)... Cos once them granite tops go on its gonna be tricky getting round the back!!

:eek:

galthop

Mr_Vee wrote:

I see I see. Thanks for that info. Im affraid i have no idea what a gas connection or what the underside of a hob looks like! lol.

So let me get this straight, when i install my units... I'm guessing i will have to have the gas man come out at that time right? and he will presumably leave something (some sort of gas safe hose??) that will connect to my hob?

(i.e. before the granite worktop guy comes to fit and secure the heavy granite worktops on top of the base units)... Cos once them granite tops go on its gonna be tricky getting round the back!!

:eek:

My hob's gas connection is a compression plumbing joint that the copper gas pipe goes into. It is not something you should connect up yourself if you are not comforable with gas plumbing.

I've got my hob in the middle of a row of units. The worktop 'sits' on top of the units and as long as you have support on either side you can slide out a middle unit - as long as you haven't screwed it to the wall.

The sides of the unit go to the wall, but the back in inset by a couple of inches. This might make it easier to visualise (top view):


wall
_______________________________________
| |Side of unit goes to the wall
|___________|
| |
| |
| |
Front of unit

Edit: I can't get this to look right when posted. It looks fine when I'm editing it. Imaging the second vertical line to be the right side of the unit.


My gas pipe runs up the wall in the gap at the back and connects to the hob.

When I installed my units, I first put them in place and levelled, etc. Then I screwed all the backs to the wall, execpt the middle unit. Then I slid the middle unit out and put the worktop in place and screwed it to the units that were in place. Then I cut out the hole for the hob. The hob was then fitted and connected - there is plent of space to work when you remove a metre wide unit. Just make sure that the pipe and any wires are secured where they wont be in the way of moving drawers, etc. Finally the middle unit was pushed back in and screwed to the neighbouring ones.

Toodlepip

Hi
We have a gas hob above fully functioning drawers in an island. Gas man came and fitted pipework under floor leaving gas pipe sticking up through floor. Then we fitted half the units, cut out the worktop and fitted hob, then gas man returned to connect hob before we fitted the other half of the island together concealing gas pipe. I assume as galthop says you will need to leave the unit loose until the hob is connected to allow access then fix it properly afterwards. You do need to make sure your gas supply pipe is fixed and will not get caught on drawers at all.