Engineer refusing to fix my cooker

OldCoals said:
No, we just don't want to be responsible for other peoples poor installations, the second you touch it, you take ownership of it.
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Strange how they never refuse boiler install jobs, touching the old dodgy pipework takes ownership, right?
 
OldCoals said:
No, we just don't want to be responsible for other peoples poor installations, the second you touch it, you take ownership of it.
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o like car mechanics fixing someone elses bad installation on my car?

O and no, i would have cleaned it. so dont come off as some almighty person as you do not know me or my intentions.

I am use to cleaning the worktop area before an engineer comes because shocking truth, one of my close mates is an engineer.

He also said that a gas/cooker engineer SHOULD bloody raise the oven/cooker and do whatever is needed to make sure its safe and bill me. Simple as that.

I myself SHOULD NOT TAMPER with the cooker in any shape or form!

dannyjo22 said:
They say ebola came from eating bush meat. We now know where it was cooked ;)



Now I'm not a gas installation wizard but how could it not be connected with a flexible hose. How would you connect it with solid pipe once it's in place. I haven't had a gas oven in years but I have never seen one that wasn't connected with a decent length flexible hose and then pushed back into position.

Then again I have never seen flappy door seals either. Saves on heating bills in the kitchen I suppose ;)
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end of teh day it is highly advisable that you should not attempted to move/raise the cooker yourself!

OldCoals said:
Replacing something and fitting it correctly is not the same as trying put put back something that was a bodge job to begin with.
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So what am i paying u to do then? It doesnt matter if it was done incorrectly before. if i am paying u to do a job then why dont you do said job?

Mechanics and engineers of different kinds to wash there hands on a job where it wasnt done correctly!!!
 
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I have no idea what has been said in this thread but have you asked them if, rather than fixing the fault, they will re-install it in the correct way?
 
Okay Ill be nice here.

The oven isnt the worst Ive seen, its not looking great but its not really the point.

The fact that you have kept it that low for 10 years while scorching your worksurface is a bit crazy, but anyway..

Edge the cooker out towards you, looking down the back you will see the flexi hose should have lots of play on it, unless for some crazy reason the gas pipe is in the back of an adjacent cupboard and the pipe is routed through the unit.

Once you confirm this, you are perfectly safe to lift it up. Cut 2 Lengths of wood the depth of the cooker (and as thick as worktop) so its long enough to fit under the front and rear legs.

Lift cooker and slide these planks under both sides.

It might now be slightly high, but the legs will no down screw down to lower it.

Job done.
 
Manky oven. But after lifting it, it sounds like you need some metal edging on the worktop to prevent scorching too.
 
spoffle said:
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That or a time before Madonna existed. :o
 
Are those red,green,yellow tiles or painted wood ? if its wood they'd have to go..

regardless of height anyone can refuse work if they aren't willing to get covered in dirt and fat changing out a thermocouple..
 
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