gas hob on Island or not
Ruby Khan
6 years ago
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Daisy England
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Need help for my kitchen - position of gas hob
Comments (13)Hello all Thank you very much for all these comments. First time using Houzz properly and I'm impressed. Before reading these, I actually played around with the layout a bit further myself last night and came to the same conclusion as some of your suggestions. I've attached an updated possible plan - but in the same 3d software (which is certainly limited, but still pretty helpful since it's free!). I've tried to label some of the key appliances. This layout places the oven and hob (750mm wide - I'd prefer 900mm if at all possible) in a different position and avoids the window problem, but also has space either side (which would be best). To answer most of your questions: Internal room dimensions are 4520mm wide by 4450mm long, 2650mm tall However, there is currently a thick wall along the entrance to the kitchen, immediately to the left of the door - this houses a chimney flue (for our property and the one below). The chimney stack has been removed from the roof and we are able to knock into some of that wall, to increase the amount of the kitchen with length 4450mm. However in the far corner (by the smaller window), we would like to keep the existing thick wall because there is a cupboard in the adjacent room that uses that void from the other side. In my latest design, you'll see how much of the wall we think we might want to take out in order to create more space at the room entrance. The breakfast bar stools are a nice-to-have - the main purpose of the peninsular is to slightly separate the kitchen part from the rest of the room and allow conversations across it whilst chopping, having a drink, etc. T a drinks cooler at one end which we would like to fit in somewhere and I just thought the stools on the other side / at the corner might be handy when it's just me and my wife. The fridge (in the corner by the new outside door) is large American Style in my latest design but that's not essential - a good sized 600mm fridge freezer would be fine too, especially if we have the drinks cooler. I haven't looked at induction hobs and have always preferred gas in the past, but I will research these - thank you. I agree that the microwave should be integrated if possible! As mentioned, the boiler (and all the pipework) would ideally stay in its current position to save the cost of moving it - but we'd want to then box it in and fit other things around it. I think that just about works in the latest design idea. Caldicot Kitchen & Bathroom Centre - thank you for your kind offer to mock something up in your own software. I'm a novice at this and yes, the software I found doesn't allow that much customisation of unit heights etc. hence the untidiness! This also isn't trying to show the style we want - and we haven't yet thought a huge amount about that. We'd probably opt for granite work surfaces and wooden units in simple light colours. Leaning towards traditional kitchen styling, not too modern. The property is a 1910 maisonette with period fire places in some rooms, although doors are shaker style. Floor wise - we'd like a stone / tile look but warm and easy to clean so not natural stone!...See Moreusing a Turbo burner on a gas hob
Comments (3)Do you mean a wok burner? We recently bought a new cooker with one of these. My hubby loves cooking stir fry so a wok burner was essential. Basically gives a lot of heat very quickly which is what you need for cooking chopped meat, stir fry veg and he also does his own special fried rice. Yummy:) He also throws the pan around a lot so at the front is best for this style of cooking. Watch a chef in a Chinese restaurant and you’ll see what I mean....See MoreExtraction dilemma!
Comments (9)There is a calculation for how much extraction you need to keep grease and smells out of the air and out of your furniture. Basically you need to filter the total volume of air in the room 10 times per hour which for your room means extracting 1300 square meters per hour. Most ceiling extractors extract 700square meters per hour- also their efficacy is reduced when the builder insists on putting in a vent that is too small (almost always they put in 12cm instead of 15cm so this is 50% smaller). The efficacy is also reduced if the extraction pipe is long or has bends in it. So basically to effectively extract in a large room you either need three overhead or extractors or one downdraft one. I get that on the face of it there seems to be a cost disparity but if you want clean air this is what you have to do....See More8 burner gas hob
Comments (25)@carolina, I know you can buy domino hobs anywhere, but I had not come across an image of the type you had sent me, where several domino hobs had been installed together. It’s important the dimensions are right, I wanted to know the maker of all of them. I wanted to know if you had a link to where you found the image. @victoria, thanks for the links - I got quite excited until I realised they only ran off LPG - in other words, those bottles of liquid gas you buy for gas barbecues.......See MoreDaisy England
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