Bring Your Own Cooktop Installation

What we install

• Gas cooktops — connected to your existing gas point and fully leak tested.
• Induction and electric cooktops supplied ready to plug in — where there is already a suitable outlet in the cabinet and the manufacturer’s requirements allow it, that is an appliance going into a socket, and we fit it like any other.
• Gas out, electric in — we disconnect the old gas cooktop and cap the gas point properly, ready for whatever replaces it.

The one thing we cannot finish, and how to tell

Some cooktops — most full-size induction units, in particular — are wired directly into their own dedicated circuit rather than plugged in. That final connection is licensed electrical work, and we do not do electrical work. We would rather say so here than take your booking and leave you with a cooktop sitting on the bench.

How to tell which you have: look at the cable on the new cooktop. We can fit models supplied ready to plug into a suitable existing outlet, subject to the manufacturer’s requirements and the outlet being right for it. If the cable ends in bare wires or a fixed connection block, it needs an electrician for that last step. A plug on its own does not settle it — send us the make and model and we will check.

If yours is the hardwired kind, this is not the product you want — we would be charging you for a job we cannot finish. Order the gas cooktop disconnection and cap-off instead, which is priced separately. We take the old cooktop out, cap the gas properly and leak test it, and your electrician fits the new one afterwards. Use your own, or ask and we will point you at one — they bill you directly and we take nothing from it.

Send us the make and model before you order and we will tell you honestly which of these you are looking at.

What this price does not cover

• Electrical wiring work — connecting a hardwired cooktop, or installing a new circuit, outlet or switch. That is an electrician’s job.
• Disconnecting a hardwired old cooktop. Most have a normal plug we simply unplug. A few are wired straight into the cabinet, and that has to be undone by an electrician before we can lift the unit out — so in that case their visit comes first, not ours. A photo of how yours is connected is enough for us to tell you.
• Cutting or enlarging the benchtop opening, or altering cabinetry. If the new cooktop is a different size to the old one, tell us before you book — measurements are the one thing worth checking twice.
• Running a new gas point where there is not one already.
• Putting right existing gas work we find to be non-compliant. If we find something, we explain it and what it would cost before touching it.

How it works

1. Order this installation and pick your day and arrival window at checkout.
2. Have the new cooktop on site, unboxed if you can, so we can check it against the opening before starting.
3. We remove the old unit and fit the new one — gas connected and leak tested, or plugged in and tested.
4. We take the old cooktop and the rubbish away.

We will need access to the gas isolation point where there is gas involved.