Range cookers

[Brad]

I am fitting (or having fitted) a Stoves gas range cooker. The kitchen at present has a gas oven fitted with 'normal bog standard' gas pipes. Do you know if these will be adequate for a range or does it need wider pipes for any reason? Thanks

 

[Me!]

I've no idea of any regulations about this, but in a previous house I had a gas range cooker with eight burners, two ovens and a grill that was fed from the same 1/2" gas pipe that also fed a 40,000btu boiler, and that all worked fine.

 

[Brad]

Thanks for that

 

[lordmulberry]

I think regulations must have changed. We were not allowed to install a gas hob with four burners because the feed was an half inch pipe that also fed the boiler.

 

[Geoff Flegg]

Brad, I've got a Leisure Rangemaster 110, which is all gas - 2 ovens, grill + 5 burners, which runs quite happily off a bog standard 15mm feed, though I've never had everything going at the same time!

We've a 22mm feed into the house, which splits to a 15mm to the boiler, 15mm to the cooker and for some unknown reason 22mm to a gas fire.

Mind you, the cooker came with the house, and given the choice I would go for either dual fuel (gas hob, electric everything else) or all electric with halogen hob. We're getting used to it, but compared to our previous all electric cooker the ovens take some getting used to - huge difference in cooking times depending on where things are placed.

Given the choice I'd go for an electric fan oven every time - with apologies to all those Aga fans out there!

 

[Brad]

We will be quite happy with gas (it all depends on what you are used to I suppose) as at the moment we're struggling along with an electric oven with the grill inside it. Not to be recommended. A cooker that came with this house! Thanks for info.

 

[Jocelyn]

Ah, but the Aga electric oven does have a fan----- you switch it on every time you use the ovens.

 

[Geoff Flegg]

I stand corrected. Actually, I didn't know that you could even get an electric Aga!