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Removing a gas hob to install new worktop

Anonymous user 23/02/2024 - 3.22 PM

The gas supply to my hob has been capped following a leak where the hob connects to the gas supply. Im having a new worktop fitted in a few weeks so wondered, as the supply is already capped, whether a competent DIYer can remove the hob so a new worktop can be fitted or would a gas engineer still have to come out to remove it? I will have a Gas Safe engineer come out to reconnect once the new worktop is on. Thanks.

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2 Answers

Centraheat Heating & Plumbing Ltd

Rating: 5 out of 5
Swindon
If the gas supply has been isolated to the appliance and all you are doing is ‘lifting’ the hob out of position then this is ok. However like you have rightly said you would need a gas safe registered engineer to re-connect and carry out the necessary safety checks and re-commission the appliance. Hope this helps!
Answered31 March 2019
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Fixcookers

Rating: 5 out of 5
Rotherham
With reference to removing the hob. By capped off this to me means the gas hob has already been disconnected from the copper household supply and the house supply pipe has been sealed at the end with either a copper soldered end cap or a compression cap. So it should literally just need the clamps removing from underneath the hob and the hob pulling up and out of the worktop housing. If that is the case anyone can do that.
Answered1 April 2019
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