How to disconnect Gas Cooker

ahll

Does anyone know that if you unscrew the fitting attached to the gas supply is the gas automatically cut off ?

The pipe from the Gas cooker seems to be screwed into a fitting to a pipe from the gad supply. I am getting ride of the cooker and need to disconnect it so I can get it to the tip. Any suggestions ?

PasturesNew

Mine did. And it wasn't a new house/fitting either
Mine was a bayonet fitting. Bloke who took my cooker away just pulled it off. I (scared) freaked a bit (could smell gas), but he said that was just the gas in the 3' of pipe from there to the cooker. He sprayed washing up liquid in the socket to prove it: no bubbles.

ckerrd

As PasturesNew says - bayonet fitting, like a light bulb, push in, turn, pull out - job done - no gas leak

djohn2002uk

Don't take the chance!" You may not be around to find out if you were right or wrong.
I also think it's illegal without being CORGI registered.

ckerrd

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This is the sort of thing. It is the right hand end, in the picture, that you undo

jblack_2

If it is a bayonnet fitting then you are allowed to disconnect it yourself, no need for a CORGI engineer. Any "mechanical" fitting (i.e. one requiring tools of any kind) must be done by a CORGI engineer.

J

kitchen_buff

It is totally illegal for anybody to give advice on any gas pipes or work.
The people bringing the new cooker should remove and refit for you.

ckerrd

Apologies all round

I have in the past disconnected a cooker to clean behind it, but haven't done do for some time.

I have only ever disconnected and reconnected the bayonet end, and wouldn't dream of tinkering with actual pipework.

But I know better now.

BobProperty

kitchen_buff wrote: »

It is totally illegal for anybody to give advice on any gas pipes or work....

Bollards
Go and find a thread on Screwfix's forums titled something like "DIY Gas disasters waiting to happen".
Or read
http://www.ultimatehandyman.co.uk/forum1/diy-gas-work-is-not-illegal-t436.html

jblack_2

kitchen_buff wrote: »

It is totally illegal for anybody to give advice on any gas pipes or work.

:rotfl: I assume you aren't CORGI qualified then?

ormus

the whole point of the female bayonet gas socket, was to make it simple for anyone to remove and replace a gas cooker. the cookers even have to fitted with a hose and bayonet male.
the regs do not say that only a corgi man can insert a male bayonet into a female socket fitting.
anyone who tells you otherwise is talking cobblers.