Short Oven?

malc_b

I'm trying to find a single oven, 13A, which is on the short side. That is sticks into the cupboard by 52cm or less. Could perhaps stretch to 53cm if I add a frame. Standard single ovens all seem to be about 54cm according to the data sheets.

B&Q has some that their booklet that says are only 50cm deep but not sure I believe it and I've yet to get proper installation drawings. The ovens are also from china so what do I do when the element goes and need spare parts?

Since someone is bound to ask why the reason is that there is a gas pipe behind the oven that fouls it and restricts the depth. This looks to be a professionally installed kitchen (I use the term loosely given this !!!! up). The current oven is 53cm and the oven outer frame bends when you put the screws in. It also rattles which I suspect might be due to the gas pipe pressing on it.

Avoriaz

Can you reroute the gas pipe and give yourself far more freedom of choice in ovens?

It shouldn't cost very much to get an RGI or qualified professional to reroute the gas pipe. A few hours work, maybe £100 or so.

scottishblondie

When I replaced the oven in my flat I found that that the new oven was deeper, and couldn't go all the way in. Unfortunately I already had the oven by that point! I had the gas pipe moved slightly so that standard sized ovens would fit.

missprice

I had same problem with a new kitchen.
Had to have gas pipe cut further along and capped (new oven is electric)
I live with a rgi but he said should be less then £ 100 to have done even with the soundness? test
Although maybe that depends where you live

malc_b

Re-routing is an option, but last resort. And with ovens about £200 it add 50% to the cost.

Also it wouldn't be easy since it is at the back of the cupboards of a built in kitchen. Maybe with the oven out I can drop the oven housing then slide that out and also the small drawer unit next to it. Gas man would need to work under the worktop in a 800mm width hole 600mm deep. I think the pipe connects to gas hob and gas wall boiler.

Fitting a shorter oven would be the easiest.

Avoriaz

malc_b wrote: »

Re-routing is an option, but last resort. And with ovens about £200 it add 50% to the cost.

Also it wouldn't be easy since it is at the back of the cupboards of a built in kitchen. Maybe with the oven out I can drop the oven housing then slide that out and also the small drawer unit next to it. Gas man would need to work under the worktop in a 800mm width hole 600mm deep. I think the pipe connects to gas hob and gas wall boiler.

Fitting a shorter oven would be the easiest.

They are used to doing that and should not have a problem with it.

You have two choices.

Leave the pipe as it is and be for ever limited to a small choice of oven. Those ovens are presumably slighter smaller in capacity.

Reroute the pipe and be able to choose from any oven on the market.

When you have a wide choice you are usually better able to find a bargain than when choice is limited.

And, as you yourself have written, that smaller oven might not have spare parts available. Reroute your pipe and buy an oven from an established and well known EU supplier with spares available for years to come or buy an oven from an unknown source that is useless in a few years when you can't get a spare part.

malc_b

Just an update in case anyone wonders what I did.

I manage to find a feasible pipe re-route. The main issue was with the iron pipe which came out at an angle. So the re-route was, remove iron pipe sections to leave the last bend coming out the wall (horizontal, almost parallel to wall but drifting out (15deg?). Reduce down to 15mm copper then all 15mm copper tight to the wall. That gave me just enough room for a standard size oven depth. The iron pipe stuck out a bit but that was at the oven base where they all bend in so it didn't foul the oven.

Our gasman did it for £50 and I didn't have to take the oven housing out either. He came round to quote and did the job then and there.