Do you have to have tiles behind a cooker?

CM66

My nan and grandad live in a park home (bit like a caravan / mobile home)

They are looking to get a new cooker and Comet told them they must have tiles on the rear wall and some kind of silver heat reflective material on the sides of the cupboards.

The current cooker has been their 20 years and has neither, just wondered if they were trying it on or whether it was new health and safety regs?

Any help would be appreciated,

Thanks

Clare

googler

CM66 wrote: »

They are looking to get a new cooker and Comet told them they must have tiles on the rear wall and some kind of silver heat reflective material on the sides of the cupboards.

or what....?

They won't sell them a cooker?
They won't install the cooker for them?
They'll call the cooker police?

societys_child

Sounds like comet have their own cooker police.

I really don't know if it's a caravan regulation or not.

southcoastrgi

I can only imagine they are worried about the heat at the back as this is a mobile home the walls won't be solid, however I've never heard of one not being installed due to this reason, I mean what about a built in oven that will sit in a wooden housing unit, that's the trouble with a little bit of knowledge & a salesman that doesn't know what he is talking about

floopnoodle

Some park homes run on LPG rather than natural gas so make sure to check the cooker will work if they do choose to buy one.

southcoastrgi

floopnoodle wrote: »

Some park homes run on LPG rather than natural gas so make sure to check the cooker will work if they do choose to buy one.

Yes very good point, you can't just use a cooker built for NG on LPG it would need to be converted much better buying the right one in the first place & I'm not sure that the sheds sell LPG models, plus you will need a RGI that can do LPG, all of this is of course if the cooker is gas, if it's all electric I've just wasted 5% of my phones battery lol

janex_2

I had a cooker installed over 12 month ago by Comet. They wouldn't fit it because I had wallpaper on. They left it and told me I had to strip the wall, and either tile it or use splash backs and they would come back and fit it when it was done. I had to have it srtipped and emulsioned, then they came back and fitted it. I bought it online and was annoyed that I wasn't warned about this! They said it was a fire hazard.

alisont

Just in the middle of having a new kitchen fitted and we are not having tiles but are having the same laminate type material like the work surface extended up so a splash back.

janex_2

By the way I'm talking about my house, not a park home.