Gas pipe for cooker - What does it look like?

cubegame

Good evening. We have just moved into our new house and want to get hold of a dual fuel freestanding cooker.

There are a couple of models we considered from Dixons, who do an installation for £60 which seems pretty reasonable for the gas/electric work.

The thing is they state they will only be able to extend the gas piping by 1.5m so I need to know where the supply is and I don't really know what I am looking for.

Where the previous owner had their electic cooker there is a small round metal cylinder on the floor which could be a terminated pipe and there is also a similar one of these across the kitchen.

What should I be looking for?

Thanks

real1314

15mm copper pipe terminated in a "plug-in" type fitting usually. If you're unsure perhaps ring a local gas fitter and ask him to check it for you for a small fee?
Might be a lot to pay for no work. but could save you a fortune against paying for a connection guy to come out and then either being unable to do it (and still charging - call out fee you see) or paying an extortionate amount to extend the fitting. It could even be that you've got no nearby gas suppy and need to do major work to sort it out?
The gas bloke might even be able to quote a better price to fit the cooker?

PasturesNew

Mine was a pipe coming vertically out of the floor. About 1" wide. The connection area was a bayonet fitting (like a lightbulb where you press it in and twist it). I think the bayonet bit might have been brass looking (can't swear to it).

That was in a house about 140 years old, so no idea how long that pipe had been in place though.

Canucklehead

Where the previous owner had their electic cooker there is a small round metal cylinder on the floor which could be a terminated pipe

Probably the gas. No way of telling if it's live though. Take them up on the £60 fitting charge.

Corgi Guy.

cubegame

Thanks for the answers.

By the look of the little pipe, it could be a bayonet.

Is it wise (or possible) to try and twist this off with the main gas supply turned off to see if it actually what I think it is?

Canucklehead

cubegame wrote: »

Thanks for the answers.

By the look of the little pipe, it could be a bayonet.

Is it wise (or possible) to try and twist this off with the main gas supply turned off to see if it actually what I think it is?

:eek: No...leave it to a CORGI....though others would advise otherwise

Canucklehead