Built under oven wont fit!

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Having a bit of a nightmare here. We bought a built under AEG double oven and matching 4 burner AEG hob from AO to go in our kitchen.

Kitchen fitter has been and fitted the units all fine and gas man came to connect the hob up to gas but the electrician has just been today to wire the oven in and fit it but he is saying it wont fit in fully.

It fits in width ways but he is saying the pipework coming down from the hob is getting in the way of it being pushed in fully.

I thought ovens had clearances at the top to allow for hob pipework? Or is it just a case of the gas man putting in bulky pipework?

I know this post is pretty useless without a picture but I thought it was pretty common place to have a built under oven and a hob above it? All the ovens look a fairly standard size and my worktop is 38mm deep so isn't a thin one.

Have i drastically overlooked something or do you think there will be an easy fix?
 
Ovens typically have a lower section at top rear to accomodate just these situations...

Is there pipework supplying the hob that can be moved, or is it the hob itself fouling oven?
 
I thought the tops of the ovens were slightly lower to compensate for the connection to the hob too.

This is the oven in question....

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I won't know until I get there tonight to see as I couldn't quite picture it in my head what he was saying was wrong.

The gas pipes run along the floor directly behind the oven and you can on this picture where the gas pipe comes up for the hob just to the right of the white arrow.

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The hob is an AEG HG654440SM, it sits in the worktop by 30mm according to this graphic. Worktops are 38mm thick so should be enough room still underneath.

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Getting stressed out by all of this now and I know its pretty hard to offer advice without a picture or see what is exactly happening!
 
Are you sure you have the right oven? On AO's site the DE4013021M says it's a built in oven, not built under. "Please note this appliance will not fit under a worktop."
 
Arrrrggghhhh, so I guess this is going to end up costing me more money now as the plumber has been and connected the hob and commissioned it already. But now i'll need to get someone to come back to disconnect it, rejig the pipework and reconnect it?

Balls. Thought I'd got past all the problems!
 
Are you sure you have the right oven? On AO's site the DE4013021M says it's a built in oven, not built under. "Please note this appliance will not fit under a worktop."

I did think that at first but it's this one...

http://ao.com/product/NC4013021M-AEG-COMPETENCE-Electric-Double-Oven-Stainless-Steel-30207.aspx

The NC4013021M which is built under. Had the electrician double check the model number and relay it to me over the phone and it is that one that is there.

After reading some of the questions on the AO site about that oven it says it should come with feet but the electrician said there were no feet with it, hes not convinced that it would help matters anyway.
 
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Although the hob will be 30mm deep, the gas connectors are up to your fitter. It sounds like he's used a straight one which is getting in the way rather than a 90-deg fitting to take the pipe straight back to the wall?
 
Was the oven on site when the gas fitter connected the hob? I always measure up what room I have behind an oven before gassing up a hob. Some manufacturers really take the p!$$ with the amount of room they give to run the gas pipe.

Mick
 
That oven needs to sit on something whether feet or make a plinth.

Was the oven there when the plumber plumbed the hob in? No point in just whacking the pipe in with out checking if the oven will fit.
 
The oven was on site and was open (still had the protective cover over it) as the kitchen fitter had fitted the little rails on the side of the units that the cooker slides on to that came with it.

Still confused as to why the AO website says it should come with feet in the questions and answers section though.

Just spoke to the sparky again and he said that its the back right part at the top that is causing an obstruction, presumably where the gas pipe comes up the back and bends around to go to the hob.

I'll get a couple of pictures when I go up shortly.
Hopefully its not going to be a massive ball ache to get it right.

Don't particularly want to get the same plumber back now either as he is in a bit of a dispute about some money for some other work he has done at my house which the builder has said he didn't ask him to do but he has done it and I've got a funny feeling he's going to try to get me to stump up for it!

One nightmare after another, was a fairly stress free process until just recently.
 
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Like said must be the bend that is stopping it. Need to put the bend the other way and chase the wall.

Could also put the pipe behind the 100mm unit and bring the fitting out the top.
 
if its hitting just the gas outlet that's sticking up then you can have it redirected so it wont hit the oven,if its the line of pipes at the bottom that are hitting it then that's a bigger job

EDIT: theres normally a void at the back of the units,gas man can move the outlet to the side/behind the unit
 
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Even with the tightest of gaps I've never come across an oven where the gas pipe had to be chased into the wall. Granted the space can be tight, it just needs the pipe rerouted to be snug at the back, even the right mechanical fitting can get the pipe straight off the underside of the hob and to the wall.
 
Here's pics of the connections. Got a different plumber coming around tomorrow to have a look and to change some of the 90 degree turns so they are a bit shorter.

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Its that bend that is blocking it from going in.
 
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