Gas Regs?

[Maplasterelec]

Gone to look at a job tonight.

Customer getting new gas cooker installed, the gas man pointed out the cooker switch and a light switch that need moving.

The cooker switch is about 400mm above the cooker just to the right of the appliance and the switch is about the same bu directly above the job area.

Fair enough they can be moved as I wouldn't design kitchen electrics with them where they are now.

BUT the gas man also wants the whole 600mmx600mm wall papered area of wall above the hob area tiled (200mm of this is tiled currently) and a section of architrave removing and tiling(cooker is next to the door). This all needs doing before he will fit the oven.

Never come across anybody being this thorough or pedantic before.

Are these gas regs??

 

[Andy™]

so he wants tiles removed and it papered instead? never heard of that, and it makes no sense either.

 

[Sidewinder]

I believe so, but, I don't do domestic, there is something about a clear area above a gas hob, and these figures sound about right.

 

[Maplasterelec]

Sorry no. He wants the paper removing and it tiling. It makes no odds to me. Just wondered for future reference. It's the removal of the architrave that I find a little picky. It will look a right t**t when it's done!

 

[Andy™]

might be something to do with the paper being flammable

 

[Sharpend]

This may help?

http://cooker-service.co.uk/cooker-regulation/gas-appliance-installation-regulations/

 

[Maplasterelec]

I know paper is flammable. I've just never come across a fitter that's wanted these things doing before. Just wondered if it was the law for them it not!

Anyway thanks for the replies

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

The BS is 760mm gap from hob to anything above  & 50mm at sides but manufacturers instructions vary, most a min of 600mm.

I recently had to blank off a socket above a slide in cooker with a metal plate as the  installers (from the retail shop) would not connect the appliance until this was done.

Putting aside the  fact a switch or socket may be affected by the heat or moisture from a hob or oven i  am sure there used to be a reg stating that must not be done, I have asked here before as i cant  find it. Am i imagining this ?  We are getting many specs where the kitchen grid switches  or just oven isolator are located above the oven.

 

[Evans Electric]

Gas man turned up on a big job I was on .started on about the gas bond not in view .  This was because the builder had, at the customer's request , built a cupboard round the meter .  The gas bond was already there when I started and I knew it was still there burt he was quoting gas regs at me ,

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My position was , I know the gas bond is there , someone has hidden it ,not me,  I'm happy, I don't give a sheet anyway, if gas man is so concerned why is'nt HE doing something about it instead of piling it onto me .    If I wasn't there as the sparks, he'd have done & said nothing .

Bit like a council job years ago .......we do all the electrics in a house and move on ......3 weeks later Clerk of the Jerks phones to say they decided to fit a  metal sinktop  and we must return to bond it as a matter of urgency. 

A disagrement ensues because we say we're charging for a return visit  ......... it suddenly became not urgent at all and was never done .