Easytigers
Guru
Just had a bit of a morning! Our gas cooker has seen its last day so we've been looking around on ebay for an electric cooker with a fan oven. Found the perfect one not far from here and won the auction last night - due to pick-up this morning.
Went to take the gas cooker out - turned into a sod of a job...when I eventually got the bayonet fitting out we could smell gas...squirted some water with washing up liquid in over the fitting and it was frothing like nobody's business. I quickly turned the gas off! Luckily One of the dads at school is a gas engineer so i gave him a call - even more lucky was the fact that he said that he'd come straight over (what a guy!!!).
He checked and sorted the valve and did some more checks...turned out that the pipe that we'd fitted to the cooker was the wrong type...even more worrying was that we hadn't sealed it properly so it had been leaking since we fitted it...6 years ago
He said it was lucky that our kitchen was so well ventilated!!!
Anyway he was going to cap the supply to the kitchen when he asked how I was going to fit the electric cooker...I pointed out a switch that's used for the cooker hood and said that I'd just wire it into there...I'm sooo glad that he asked the question! He checked the fuse board and said that the supply wasn't powerful enough (it's just a spur from the sockets) and that if I'd have wired it in and used it it would have blown the fuse if not caught on fire!!! He charged us £50 which I didn't think was bad as I called him out on a Sunday morning and he with us for a good couple of hours.
I've contacted the ebay seller and they're happy to cancel the transaction (phew!!!)...I'll paypal them some money for the inconvenience.
So, although we don't have a new cooker, we're safe and have saved ourselves the cost of the cooker and the possibility of burning down the house!!!
Went to take the gas cooker out - turned into a sod of a job...when I eventually got the bayonet fitting out we could smell gas...squirted some water with washing up liquid in over the fitting and it was frothing like nobody's business. I quickly turned the gas off! Luckily One of the dads at school is a gas engineer so i gave him a call - even more lucky was the fact that he said that he'd come straight over (what a guy!!!).
He checked and sorted the valve and did some more checks...turned out that the pipe that we'd fitted to the cooker was the wrong type...even more worrying was that we hadn't sealed it properly so it had been leaking since we fitted it...6 years ago
He said it was lucky that our kitchen was so well ventilated!!!
Anyway he was going to cap the supply to the kitchen when he asked how I was going to fit the electric cooker...I pointed out a switch that's used for the cooker hood and said that I'd just wire it into there...I'm sooo glad that he asked the question! He checked the fuse board and said that the supply wasn't powerful enough (it's just a spur from the sockets) and that if I'd have wired it in and used it it would have blown the fuse if not caught on fire!!! He charged us £50 which I didn't think was bad as I called him out on a Sunday morning and he with us for a good couple of hours.
I've contacted the ebay seller and they're happy to cancel the transaction (phew!!!)...I'll paypal them some money for the inconvenience.
So, although we don't have a new cooker, we're safe and have saved ourselves the cost of the cooker and the possibility of burning down the house!!!