LOCATION
The cooker has been registered as a “Class X” appliance according to Fire Risk Regulations. Any adjacent cabinets or walls must not exceed the cooker’s height.
The cooker may be located in a kitchen, a kitchen/diner or bed sitting room, but not in a bathroom, shower room or garage.
The minimum distance combustible material can be fitted above the cooker in line with the edges of the cooker is 660mm (see fig.20).
L.P.G. cookers or ovens MUST NOT be installed below ground level, i.e. in a basement, or aboard any boat, yacht or other vessel.
The cooking appliance must be fitted with a stability chain firmly secured to the wall (see fig 21).
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| 610 mm |
660 |
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250 |
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100 | 40 |
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200 | 150 | 35 | 30 | 25 |
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fig. 20
Stability hook
Firmly fix chain to rear
of cooker
Chain to be as
short as
Stabilitypracticable chain
fig. 21
Ventilation
The room containing the cooker should have an air supply in accordance with B.S. 5440: Part 2: Current Editions.
The following requirements for ventilation must be met.
The cooker should not be installed in a bed sitting room with a volume of less than 20m3, if it is installed in a room of volume less 5m3 an air vent of effective area of 110cm2 is required; if it is installed in a room of volume between 5m3 and 10m3, an air vent of effective area 50cm2 is required, while if the volume exceeds 11m3 no air vent is required. However, if the room has a door, which opens directly to the outside, no air vent is required even when the volume is between 5m3 and 11m3.
If there are other fuel burning appliances in the same room, B.S. 5440: Part. 2: Current Editions should be consulted to determine the requisite air vent requirements.
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