Bad plumbing?

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I live in rented accomodation in the UK & have just bought a new gas cooker. The depth of the cooker is 60cm as is the depth of the space in the kitchen (cooker width is 50cm and space width is 59cm). The connection pipe for the gas in the kitchen is positioned about 15 cm from the corner at the back and prevents the new cooker from being pushed in all the way. One consequence is that an adjacent drawer and door will not now open fully; the cooker also looks ugly as it is sticking out by about 8cm.
There was not a problem with the old cooker (it was really old). The kitchen was re-furbished 5 years ago and the builders knew that I would be getting a new cooker at some stage. It strikes me that there is a standard by which they fit the plumbing so as to accomodate a new product. If so then they have just been lazy as the old cooker had more tolerance? Cn anyone confirm this for me? If it is bad workmanship then I will attempt to get the landlord to pay for the correction (otherwise I'll have to pay a plumber myself).
Thanks

poster-anothereye

Stu

Yep, you nailed it first go!....you will have to pay for the plumber.

Mike Lucey

! I'd say send the LL a letter, baffle him with science / regs
and hope for the best. If no go, try to see if he will go 50/50
on the plumber.

Mike

Ross Macintosh

While it is now regrettable that the gas pipe was installed where it was, you lived with it that way for five years. No offence but rather than think the Contractor lazy, perhaps you really were the lazy one for not confirming all dimensions before you bought new equipment.

Here in North America renters typically aren't allowed to do any renovations. It sounds like that is different in the UK. Since you are a renter I wonder if you could approach your landlord about splitting the costs on having the gas pipe relocated. My thought is the landlord accrues a benefit by having it updated so it seems reasonable (to me at least) that the landlord might agree to pay some of the cost. (The benefit being that should you ever leave, the unit will be more rent-able).

Regards, Ross