Cooker

[Bazile]

We are having our gas cooker replaced .

The connection to the gas supply from the mains ,on our current one is by a flexible hose - the type where you push in turn and it clicks into place . The other end which is connected to the cooker screws on , i think .

Would our new gas cooker gas connection be more than likely the same , which we could do ourself ? . I cant see from the specification what connection it has .

Or do we pay for connection on delivery which is a service which they provide for a fee of course .

The cooker is a Hotpoint HAG60X

[Mosaic]

Unless you have certificates I don't think you should attempt gas installations. Sadly part of the annoyance in getting a new cooker is getting someone to connect it.
Were anything to go wrong and say an explosion occur, you're having done the connection might invalidate your insurance.

[Old_Geezer]

I can only guess that the new connections are more likely to be simple push on. Does the Hotpoint website give the specifications for a HAG60X ?

[BRIGHT SPARK]

Baz......it looks like its a 1/2inch BSP female connection so it will need a flexi hose with a 1/2 inch male on one end and a bayonnet on tuther :-(

[theshedman]

I would go along with what Mosaic says. We recently had a cooker fitted and were told that it had to be installed by a gas safe engineer. They don't just install it but check out all the cooker and check for leaks. As Mosaic says the hard part is getting someone to come out just to install it.

[The Builder]

There's an awful lot of confusion over gas cookers Baz. Your bayonet connection is really there for an existing installation where you may need to disconnect for cleaning etc.

New installations must be by a Gas-Safe guy. Quite often, this involves changing a rigid pipe supply over to a bayonet type.

Is plugging in a new cooker a new installation? There's the confusion.

The accepted wisdom is to treat it as new. As with most things, gas cookers aren't terribly sophisticated. It may already have a fault. The bayonet valve may be sticky. A Gas-Safer would check all this out.

[Bazile]

Ok folks - so the consensus is that it is recomended that i have it installed by a gas safe engineer .

I'm getting the new cooker through an appliances breakdown cover , which we have , through Domestic & General .

They offer an installation service for £ 60 ,at the same time the cooker is delivered .

Do i take it for granted ,that the installers that they use would be a registered Gas Safe Engineer ?

[Old_Geezer]

They should be but it never hurts to see the card and check it.