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When I was looking for a similar thing I found the cooker manuals useful for the hot zone, some had slightly different dimensions and obviously that will dictate the install.
I think you're going to fall afoul of the sideways hot zone though. I ended up having to cut back some bits of worktop trim and remove a socket that fell into the hot zone.
The installers I used (ao and Curry's) were pretty strict. They had to take pictures of the work and the clearances (with a tape measure) to show it was correct. They suggested independent installers may not be as strict.
I got a full refund from ao after they delivered and realised that they couldn't install due to the regs.
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anyone any good with oven regs?
we're due to move into a new rental in a couple of weeks and today I had a quick chance to get in and measure up but I'm really not convinced by the location of the cooker space in the kitchen and our chances of having an installer happily fitting a cooker upon delivery potentially risking hundreds of pounds.
as you can see in attached pic they've put it into the chimney breast and stuck an extractor fan.
there's a double socket on the left below hob height which i assume is normal 13A, and on the right side is what looks like a cooker switch but there's no outlet panel for wiring the cabling into inside the chimney.
the extractor fan is 161cm from the floor so would be fine for the 65cm clearance from a 90cm cooker. the width inside is 70 with just enough space for a 60cm unit to fit in the middle, the rear gas pipe fitting would also make the unit stand 2.5cm away from the rear wall.
things that concern me...
-the side walls above hob height fall within the hot zone of 9cm either side which i'm not sure is ok
-the 13a sockets are not good enough to run all but the shittest electrical oven from
-the cooker switch is above hob height but i assume 9cm outside hot zone and i have no idea how to wire it to the cooker.
i've been hoping to get a cooker installed between our move in date and christmas but it's beginning to feel like i'm going to end up with some 50cm wide piece of shit fitted plug bullshit with solid/ceramic hobs which is useless to cook on when we actually have a budget up to about 600 for something half decent (ideally dual fuel).
any experts on here willing to weigh in?
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