01-09-2013, 02:39 PM
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Re: Gas Cooker and Chains..
Originally Posted by Jimmy
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Well that's handy, a fixed chain that you can unclip, that's not very safe is it?
01-09-2013, 03:14 PM
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Re: Gas Cooker and Chains..
Originally Posted by Roxy
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Meg, I've never heard of this before, my cooker is very heavy and certainly won't topple over........stinks of a money making scam to me.
01-09-2013, 03:19 PM
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Re: Gas Cooker and Chains..
Originally Posted by Jimmy
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Our pipe is long enough to pull the cooker out far enough to be able to get behind it, when the chap comes to service the boiler he never looks at the cooker, just does the boiler.
01-09-2013, 05:25 PM
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Re: Gas Cooker and Chains..
Originally Posted by Meg
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Roxy 
We don't have gas here but I had a new freestanding electric cooker installed this year and I presented the fitters with gliding cups to go on the feet of the cooker to enable me to slide it out with ease when I wish to clean underneath.The fitters then told me they were supposed to attach the cooker to the wall so I would not be able to move it . Apparently there is some sort of health and safety ruling which says cookers must be attached to the wall to prevent them falling on the user
.I told the fitters I had been moving cookers out to clean behind them for over 50 years and lived to tell the tale
They did as they were told and connected the cooker without attaching it to the wall leaving me to be crushed as requested
01-09-2013, 08:32 PM
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Re: Gas Cooker and Chains..
Originally Posted by Alan Cooke
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When we had a gas cooker it was chained to the wall. I am no expert but I don't think it's anything to do with it falling on top of you, it's more likely to be so you don't pull it too far from the fixed gas pipe that the flexible gas pipe gets broken causing a gas leak.
as I said in my earlier post it was a free standing electric cooker I had fitted . There is no gas in our tiny village.
02-09-2013, 01:08 AM
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Re: Gas Cooker and Chains..
Never heard of this but I pay for my boiler to be serviced, not my cooker, although I suppose it should cover all gas appliances for safety's sake.Mindst, that's a tale in itself!
A couple of years ago I smelled gas and, although I always keep my window "locked open" to four inches, it came over very strongly, so I got a plumber in who discovered that I had a ruptured gas pipe to my cooker. No wonder gas was costing me a fortune, but I'd been lucky because I'd kept a window open, but nothing was mentioned about it being chained to the wall then.
A boiler service doesn't usually cover other gas appliances though.
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