Having gas cooker hob in kitchen?

Furts

A couple of pointers, but I am from a building perspective and not from GasSafe. There was a time when gas pipes were put in concrete floors. However there was an issue with corrosion and leaks. Then when floors had screeds laid over the top it became acceptable to have gas the pipes set in timber boxes in the screed. This allowed access, inspection, and no corrosion.

Times change, but if your meter box is set into your cavity wall I picture the gas pipe rising from this into the ceiling void. It then drops to each location.

Your hob would also receive a drop from this pipe - assuming it is sized correctly to give you adequate gas supply.

The thought of breaking up your floor slab to allow a suitable gas route does not sound wise to me. Think vibration, damage and so on.

mumps

Having been a young housewife in the 70s with all the power cuts I have an electric oven and gas hob so I can have hot food and drinks whatever happens.

I'm not sure where the gas pipes come into my kitchen but there is definitely a pipe behind the cupboard run that houses the hob. The pipe must either come through the wall somewhere or it comes down from the ceiling behind a high larder unit so it can't be seen. There is normally a space behind units for water and gas pipes and any electrics so you can't see them even with the cupboards open.

Doozergirl

It 's isn't an issue to hide gas pipes at all. It would be partcularly easy to hide things with a whole new kitchen. It's just a case of finding the most sensible route in your house.

It will, of course, cost more than having a pipe on show but it's pretty standard to hide pipes. Look at your fitter's work. And look for boxing! I refuse to have boxing anywhere on a project but I plan a kitchen around ideal service locations and agree with people - customer's can't dictate that x has to go in y position and expect miracles.

The kitchen has to be treated as a whole and designed well, not just the same as it was before if new items are introduced.

southcoastrgi

There is no problem with putting the gas pipe in the floor providing its protected I would use either plastic coated copper or tracpipe, also no problems with running it under the kitchen units

AlexMac

I haven't really followed all your detail, but surely you should just asl a decent builder who has Gas Safe fitters what the solution is? In the last three years I've had
- a leaky gas supply to a defunct living room gasfire removed and a new supply run 7-8 metres through a rental flat to a new boiler and new gas hob
- amendments to pipe runs to a new gas boiler in my home
- a gas meter moved a couple of metres...
and none of it was a big deal to design or outrageously expensive to do. I similarly had a load of work done to relocate and re-run soil stacks and plumbing wastes - occasionally partly in bulkheads but again, none of it ugly or intrusuve...

All I did was to ask the experts.. ?