disconnect gas cooker

Geodark

Hey all, going to start doing my kitchen soon and want to get rid of my range cooker - Just wondered if I need a gas safe registered engineer to disconnect or if I can do it myself? Its a bayonet fitting if that makes any difference. I know I will need a registered person to fit the new hob, just with lockdown I was hoping I could remove and then get cracking on the kitchen, then wait for things to chill before I get the new hob piped in rather than have to wait a couple of months before I can get cracking.

neilmcl

If it really is a bayonet fitting then I believe you can remove it yourself.

oldbikebloke

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The Gas Safety(Installation and Use) Regulations 1998, Regulation 2(1) allow the disconnection of a cooker via a self sealing bayonet fitting by a person that is not Gas Safe Registered. This must only be a temporary disconnection for example, the purpose of moving the cooker for cleaning purposes.

A permanent disconnection would require the removal of the bayonet fitting and capping off by a qualified Gas Safe Registered engineer.

Guidance Note 65 to regulation 6(3) of GSIUR states: 
“When an appliance is disconnected and open-ended pipework is left, the pipework should always be left sealed with an appropriate fitting. A self-sealing coupling, e.g. on a cooker connection, does not need to be capped-off, except where there is a significant risk of interference (such as by a child). However, it should be checked that any disconnected coupling is not leaking gas (see paragraph 68), and any wall- mounted connector has been installed in the downward mounted position to prevent dirt or grit getting into the self-closing seal.”

Geodark

Cheers both, thats what I was hoping means I can get cracking on this now. 

grumbler

Does this mean that the OP is mistaken about needing "a registered person to fit the new hob"?

Jeepers_Creepers

As I understand it, flexible hoses and bayonet fittings are only permitted on free-standing appliances where some movement is expected. The new hob's will almost certainly be rigid copper pipe.

But at least Geodark can get on with the dismantling. Common sense would recommend giving the bayonet socket a spray with soapy water tobesure tobesure.

abc987

Jeepers_Creepers said:

Common sense would recommend giving the bayonet socket a spray with soapy water tobesure tobesure.

Or a naked flame, just to be 100% sure.  

its a joke, folks.

Geodark

Jeepers_Creepers said:

As I understand it, flexible hoses and bayonet fittings are only permitted on free-standing appliances where some movement is expected. The new hob's will almost certainly be rigid copper pipe.

But at least Geodark can get on with the dismantling. Common sense would recommend giving the bayonet socket a spray with soapy water tobesure tobesure.

Being the paranoid person I am I was going to buy one of those gas leak detectors from amazon. But yeah a spray with soapy water would be good as well haha. 

And yeah, not planning on fitting the new one. Defo getting someone registered to fit it. 

Alanp

Well being pedantic, you’re supposed to use the correct leak detector fluid and not soapy water, but I must confess to using a bit of fairy liquid when I ran out of the proper stuff...

Jeepers_Creepers

I'm surprised so few places stock these - I wonder if it's to discourage folk from leaving it like this long-term?

https://www.bes.co.uk/bayonet-cooker-hose-socket-blanking-plug-21067/

greyteam1959

Turn off the gas at the main stop valve BEFORE you start fiddling with the bayonet fitting.
Just in case.................