Hi there,
We had a new kitchen installed when we moved in, and we (regretfully now) decided to keep the existing cooker (ie: oven and hob). It was fairly old, but due to budget constraints at the time, we kept it, and I (naively) assumed it would be easy to replace at a later date.
A photo of it is attached to this post.
Fast forward 2 years, and it's now developed not one - but two faults. Whilst we could pay to get it repaired, it would probably be more economical long term to replace it. At least that's what I thought. Having checked sites like ao.com and Currys, standard cookers are about £300-400, which is fine. However, on closer inspection, they are all widths of around 60-70cm. Yet ours is 90cm.
Having researched some more, this appears to be the width of what are advertised as 'range cookers', and they cost at least twice as much. The irritating thing is that although our cooker is the *width* of a range cooker, it has none of the features of it. It has a standard 4 ring ceramic hob, and a fairly bog standard oven. It just happens to have 2 storage drawers either side which take up the additional 30cm width. And we have no need for a full range cooker (and also can't afford the extra - at least not easily).
So my question is, is it possible to buy 'bog standard' 90cm width cookers? I have looked around but not found any. Clearly this was purchased at some point, but is it a one off?
Or does anyone have any ideas on cost effective options on what to do? We've considered the following:
- Extending the worktop and adding additional cupboard/drawers in the additional space. Would look good, but would be £££.
- Constructing some sort of home made shelving (but this would look pretty poor as it wouldn't match).
However, adding labour and materials in, you're not going to be far off the amount you'd pay extra for a range cooker anyway with these options.
Any help would be appreciated
Steve
We had a new kitchen installed when we moved in, and we (regretfully now) decided to keep the existing cooker (ie: oven and hob). It was fairly old, but due to budget constraints at the time, we kept it, and I (naively) assumed it would be easy to replace at a later date.
A photo of it is attached to this post.
Fast forward 2 years, and it's now developed not one - but two faults. Whilst we could pay to get it repaired, it would probably be more economical long term to replace it. At least that's what I thought. Having checked sites like ao.com and Currys, standard cookers are about £300-400, which is fine. However, on closer inspection, they are all widths of around 60-70cm. Yet ours is 90cm.
Having researched some more, this appears to be the width of what are advertised as 'range cookers', and they cost at least twice as much. The irritating thing is that although our cooker is the *width* of a range cooker, it has none of the features of it. It has a standard 4 ring ceramic hob, and a fairly bog standard oven. It just happens to have 2 storage drawers either side which take up the additional 30cm width. And we have no need for a full range cooker (and also can't afford the extra - at least not easily).
So my question is, is it possible to buy 'bog standard' 90cm width cookers? I have looked around but not found any. Clearly this was purchased at some point, but is it a one off?
Or does anyone have any ideas on cost effective options on what to do? We've considered the following:
- Extending the worktop and adding additional cupboard/drawers in the additional space. Would look good, but would be £££.
- Constructing some sort of home made shelving (but this would look pretty poor as it wouldn't match).
However, adding labour and materials in, you're not going to be far off the amount you'd pay extra for a range cooker anyway with these options.
Any help would be appreciated
Steve
