Required space for a gas cooker

Are you talking a free standing cooker? I will take a guess and say you are and no no legal requirement if the cooker is in the middle of a work surface but if its near a wall I think the law changes.
 
There are also regs about what can be above the cooker too as well as how far away from the sides of anything.

Try the gas safe register site. I think they have a helpline on there that should be able to tell you what the recommended distances are.
 
20 mm is what I was told when I fitted mine last year. Best to check on the cooker instructions as I'm sure room size and room ventilation come into play too.

It is a double sized range, the sides barely get warm with both ovens on. Because of the size of the kitchen we also fitted an extractor hood that switches on to it's lowest level whenever the cooker is fired up.

I would check with the manufacturer to be sure.
 
As far as I know your ok but check the the fitting instructions to be sure. Cant be that many regs on it. If there was you wouldn't be able to fit a built in hob.
 
My free standing oven is pretty much flush with the units either side, maybe 1/4" gap but certainly not 20mm.

That's not a statement on what the building regs say, it's just what the actual situation in my kitchen is.
 
It's usually 30mm to each side, 700mm for above and it needs a chain fitting to the wall from the rear of the cooker. That was what I had to work to when I was making and fitting kitchens, which is a while ago though so it might of changed but I don't think it'd change that much.

There's no regulations as such as far as I know, but that was the advice we had to follow. Seems strange that you should need a gap for freestanding cookers when there's none for inbuilt gas cookers. Things might of changed though.
 
Gas regs are a min 20mm clearance from combustible material each sie of the cooker and if it has a high level grill there must be a clearance of 610mm above it.
Just a couple of others... Must have a safety chain and stability bracket if requested in the installation instructions, there must be an opening window in the room and if it's multiple dwellings the cooker must have a flame failure device fitted.
 
Martyn D said:
Gas regs are a min 20mm clearance from combustible material each sie of the cooker and if it has a high level grill there must be a clearance of 610mm above it.
Just a couple of others... Must have a safety chain and stability bracket if requested in the installation instructions, there must be an opening window in the room and if it's multiple dwellings the cooker must have a flame failure device fitted.
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I'm screwed
 
I should have mentioned that if the manufacturers instruction state different they over rule the regs....other ways of getting round it is to face the sides of the cupboard with fireproof board eg. master board
 
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