Temporary cooker needed

Triker

A Remoska?

itgirlinuk

DVardysShadow wrote: »

Did you know they were taking the cooker when you put your offer in? If it is built in, it is a fair assumption that it goes with the house. So you would be justified in going back and dropping your offer by the price of a new one.

No. We didnt know they were going to take the cooker. They didnt tell us well after our conveyancing began. And they dropped into the conversation when we discussed the fixtures and fittings.

We didnt push it as we thought we should have said the offer was including the white goods. Now we feel with the exchange due soon, its too late to push it!

McKneff

phill99 wrote: »

So we won't be rushing round to yours on Sunday morning for a fry up then!!

I can do you

bacon, sausage, hash browns, grilled tomatoes from under the grill
and scrambled egg in the microwave.

Toast with home made marmalade.

mmmm.

fresh coffee, tea,

:D:D

phill99

McKneff wrote: »

I can do you

bacon, sausage, hash browns, grilled tomatoes from under the grill
and scrambled egg in the microwave.

Toast with home made marmalade.

mmmm.

fresh coffee, tea,

:D:D

I'm sorry, my friend. Has to be fried egg with a fry up!! There is no substitute!!

DVardysShadow

itgirlinuk wrote: »

No. We didnt know they were going to take the cooker. They didnt tell us well after our conveyancing began. And they dropped into the conversation when we discussed the fixtures and fittings.

We didnt push it as we thought we should have said the offer was including the white goods. Now we feel with the exchange due soon, its too late to push it!

As exchange has not happened, then it is not too late. With fitted appliances the default position is not the same as for white goods. General default assumption for an offer is that it stays if you need a tool to remove it and goes otherwise. Obviously, this is confirmed or varied by the Fixtures and Fittings form. The point is that they have varied from the default understanding for an offer - unless the point was discussed before the offer was accepted of course, but you say you were well into the conveyancing. Well, nowt wrong with dropping the offer, apart from possibly complicating your mortgage.

laurz121

A few people have replied saying/asking/hinting that the former owner is taking a built in oven out of the kitchen but I think theyre reading it wrong and what you're saying is that they're taking a freestanding oven away and you are considering replacing it with another freestanding oven but would rather not do that because you will be paying a fair bit of money to buy something that in time you will be getting rid of to replace with a built in oven when you have the kitchen redone.

If i've read that right then may I suggest that you instead choose yourself a nice built in oven which you would be happy to keep even when you eventually redo the whole kitchen and then buy a 600 wide oven housing (you could pick up a used one for pretty much nothing from a tradesman friend, one gets binned pretty much every time a new kitchen is fitted), slot the housing into the gap where the freestanding oven used to be and fit your nice new built in oven into it. It won't look particularly out of place and when you eventually replace the whole kitchen you won't have to buy a new oven, you'll simply transfer the one you've just bought into the new kitchen cupboards.

DVardysShadow

laurz121 wrote: »

If i've read that right then may I suggest that you instead choose yourself a nice built in oven which you would be happy to keep even when you eventually redo the whole kitchen and then buy a 600 wide oven housing (you could pick up a used one for pretty much nothing from a tradesman friend, one gets binned pretty much every time a new kitchen is fitted), slot the housing into the gap where the freestanding oven used to be and fit your nice new built in oven into it. It won't look particularly out of place and when you eventually replace the whole kitchen you won't have to buy a new oven, you'll simply transfer the one you've just bought into the new kitchen cupboards.

Whichever type of cooker is being taken, this looks like a good way forwards.

asbokid

itgirlinuk wrote: »

We are buying a new house and the current owners are taking the cooker!!! :mad:

We cannot afford to get a new kitchen yet, though it needs a new one. We thought of buying a new, but freestanding cooker..but don't like the look of the freestanding cookers.

So I was thinking of getting a temporary cooker to tide us over...What's the cheapest way of doing this?

I have asked my friend who is a tradesman to find me an old one when someone is replacing their kitchen...but no luck so far...

Can someone give me any ideas of getting hold a free one or a cheap one????

Is there a way of getting hold of the working cookers that are sent for recycling??

yeah, visit your local recycling dump. they are often not council-managed these days so are amenable to a bit of wheeling-and-dealing. going price for a cooker is £5 or £10.. they might insist on you signing some disclaimer about having the equipment electrically tested for safety before use..

technically you should get a qualified electrician to install the cooker for you... he will make sure that the cooker is electrically safe, and that the cabling can handle the load.

cooker cable is outrageously expensive, so the dump may be able to find you a few feet of it to save you a few more pounds.

pimento

phill99 wrote: »

Surely cost and functionality are far more important than aesthetics?

Not if you're a woman (usually).

itgirlinuk

laurz121 wrote: »

A few people have replied saying/asking/hinting that the former owner is taking a built in oven out of the kitchen but I think theyre reading it wrong and what you're saying is that they're taking a freestanding oven away and you are considering replacing it with another freestanding oven but would rather not do that because you will be paying a fair bit of money to buy something that in time you will be getting rid of to replace with a built in oven when you have the kitchen redone.

If i've read that right then may I suggest that you instead choose yourself a nice built in oven which you would be happy to keep even when you eventually redo the whole kitchen and then buy a 600 wide oven housing (you could pick up a used one for pretty much nothing from a tradesman friend, one gets binned pretty much every time a new kitchen is fitted), slot the housing into the gap where the freestanding oven used to be and fit your nice new built in oven into it. It won't look particularly out of place and when you eventually replace the whole kitchen you won't have to buy a new oven, you'll simply transfer the one you've just bought into the new kitchen cupboards.

Yes. the old owners are taking away their freestanding cooker and hob. And we need a replacement hob atleast. I am not so fussed about oven. So I don't understand whether the oven housing you are talking about is for the oven and hob or just the oven!