Gas pipe sizing for oven and stove
Jethro
gas oven - our electric on is on it's last legs. It's replacing a
single built-in unit. Examining the under stove space, it seems the
unit was constucted to take up to a 700mm oven (which the new one is)
by removing a shelf. So I'm not too worried about the physical
installation.
However I'll get a corgi (or is it gassafe or something ?) guy to
actually hook the gas up. Currently the gas *stove* has a rigid pipe
which plugs into a cooker connection. The gas pipe size looks like
15mm. Is this going to be OK, or will the whole pipe run need to be
upgraded to 22mm ? Can you get 1->2 adapters to split the single
existing connection into two (one for stove and one for oven) ?
Although the Mrs and I hated cooking with electricity (we inherited
the oven) when I did the maths, we found that we used more gas than
electricity in a 3:1 ratio ... so we couldn't justify a gas oven on
the grounds of saving fuel.
A.Lee
> After 8 years wait, we have finally treated ourselves to a (double)
> gas oven - our electric on is on it's last legs. It's replacing a
> single built-in unit. Examining the under stove space, it seems the
> unit was constucted to take up to a 700mm oven (which the new one is)
> by removing a shelf. So I'm not too worried about the physical
> installation.
>
> However I'll get a corgi (or is it gassafe or something ?) guy to
> actually hook the gas up. Currently the gas *stove* has a rigid pipe
> which plugs into a cooker connection. The gas pipe size looks like
> 15mm. Is this going to be OK,
15mm should be fine. I have a gas hob, and will be fitting a new gas
double oven shortly, and asked my gas guy about it, and he says 15mm is
fine.
It's only only like an old free standing cooker - 4 rings, grill and
oven in one unit, fed by the bayonet hose.
Alan.
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Jethro
Didn't think of that !
fred
<f76206a1-8953-4ee7...@j25g2000vbs.googlegroups.com>,
Jethro <krazy...@googlemail.com> writes
The authoritative guide is:
http://www.copperinfo.co.uk/plumbing-heating-and-sprinklers/downloads/pub-124-copper-for-domestic-gas-installations.pdf
Section 4.3 tells you all you need to know and it's quite satisfying to
check the what headroom you have.
That said, really only essential for boiler and other high use installs.
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Nightjar
> In article
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> The authoritative guide is:
> http://www.copperinfo.co.uk/plumbing-heating-and-sprinklers/downloads/pub-124-copper-for-domestic-gas-installations.pdf
>
>
>
> Section 4.3 tells you all you need to know and it's quite satisfying to
> check the what headroom you have.
>
> That said, really only essential for boiler and other high use installs.
Very useful thanks. It confirms my gut feeeling that 15mm would be
marginal for the boiler I plan to install. Now all I have to do is work
out how to feed a continuous 6m length of pipe through two walls and
behind the kitchen cabinets without disturbing too much.
Colin Bignell
fred
<"cpb"@ <"insertmysurnamehere>@?.?> writes
any boiler install.
I suppose a pro would cut the copper to the max possible straight length
and then joint in new pieces when poking it through but I imagine you're
worried about untested joints.