Gas Cooker Sizes

[davewr]

We are having a new kitchen fitted in the New Year and have bought a new stand alone cooker which is 500mm wide. We wanted the units to fit close to either side of the cooker but the kitchen designer has told us we need to leave a wider gap, 550mm minimum, as 500 wide cookers are being phased out and if we need to replace it in a couple of years we'd have to have major changes to the units.
Anyone any idea if this is true or is it just salesman talk?

[terence7556]

don,t know about the expanding cookers but according to gas safety laws you should have 20mm clearance each side of the cooker when adjacent to combustible surfaces.
in reality very few kitchens comply with this rule

[davewr]

Thanks; 20mm is ok but I don't want to leave gaps for a possible bigger cooker in the future. The fitter has never heard this tale so we'll ignore it.

[gucciman]

im a corgi gas engineer and ive not heard of this to be honest. at the moment most cookers are 500mm or 600mm, cannon used to do 535mm cookers but they phased them out.
email canno and ask them