Fitting gas cooker around pipe

CliveMess

I need a new gas cooker but we have a stainless steel gas pipe coming up through a concrete floor 8 cm out from the wall and about 25 cm from the right side of the cooker. The pipe causes most models to poke out beyond the adjacent cupboards etc. We cannot find a cooker with an 8 cm recess, like our very old existing one which has broken down. Moving the pipe means ripping up the floor back to the meter. Some cookers have an adequate recess but also a plastic cover for the wiring at the exact place where the pipe comes up but maybe that can be moved? We cannot and don't wish to move to dual fuel or electric without lots of new wiring.
Any ideas please?

Aylesbury_Duck

Why would you need to rip up the floor back to the meter? Could a gas fitter chase out a channel in the floor and safely terminate the pipe at ground level or is the pipe live and in use? If it is, then it could be capped and a new supply run in its place. It won't be cheap though.

CliveMess

The pipe is in use and is connected to the cooker.
We were told by a gas engineer that you cannot just cut a stainless steel pipe like you can copper and re-position it. It could be capped as you say but then we have to rip up the concrete floor across the kitchen and into the hallway to the meter to fit a new copper pipe. There will also be a junction somewhere leading to the gas boiler.....

Aylesbury_Duck

I had a gas leak in the carcass and rather than dig up the floor to locate it, a gas fitter fitted a new pipe run around the outside of the house from the meter to the boiler, with a spur part way round to feed the gas hob. He then cleared the old pipe run of gas and capped it at both ends.

Could this work for you if you have the right layout to accommodate it? It will be an expensive solution but perhaps preferable to your other option.

Debbie_Savard

Presumably something like this?



Doesn't seem impossible to chase out the concrete around the pipe, use a 90degree join and run a new installation chased into the wall.

Ruski

Debbie_Savard wrote: »

Presumably something like this?



Doesn't seem impossible to chase out the concrete around the pipe, use a 90degree join and run a new installation chased into the wall.

No - that's a black iron or steel pipe before the brass connections. This pipe could be modified, but the OP says they have a Stainless steel pipe coming out of the floor. I have to say it's not an impossibility to modify the stainless steel pipe, if that is what it really is.. OP a picture would help.

HTH

Russ

CliveMess

Hi guys and gals,
thanks for the help so far.
The idea of running a new pipe around the outside won't work here because the meter is indoors under the stairs and we would need to dig up the concrete floor to run a new pipe.
Here is a pic with the cooker pulled out a bit, sorry I did not first clean the floor. The pipe looks close to the wall but is about 7 cm out.
Thanks, Clive
Sorry but the pic failed to load. I pasted the pic's URL but no luck.

Ruski

Paste a url with a few spaces in between the slashes, we'll sort it for you
Russ

CliveMess

Here is the image (I hope) :
[IMG]"C:\Users\clivemess\Pictures\2018-04\WP_20180429_22_05_43_Pro.jpg"[/IMG]
So far, suggestions have been around moving or bypassing the pipe. Is there a gas cooker somewhere in the world with a 6 - 8 cm recess at the rear? The one I have now does.

Ruski

Hi Clive

you need to upload that picture (from your PC) to a hosting site such as dropbox or google drive, then it can be shared