Moving a range cooker

by **ban-all-sheds** on Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:54 pm

Took delivery of a new cooker today - 109cm x 62cm, 180kg. Currently in the hall as not quite ready for it in the kitchen.

At least, that was the original thought, as the plan was to trundle it in to a space in the kitchen, then when we were ready to do walls/floor/new units etc, trundle it out, fit the kitchen, trundle it back.

Plans now in tatters, as it trundles about as well as I can juggle soot underwater. 'kin thing doesn't even move sideways on it's wheels, only fore/aft, and strange as it may seem my doorways aren't 1.1m wide. :evil:

Any suggestions on how to move it?

by **timfoley** on Sat Aug 21, 2010 10:29 am

Ban-all-sheds,
Easiest way is to become the director of the moving operation whilst pointing the carriers in the right direction. Lot easier on the back too.
They do become significantly lighter if you take out the easily removable components but shuffling and trundling remains the order of the day with ranges.

by **ban-all-sheds** on Wed Dec 28, 2011 11:43 am

Let's give a big welcome to Lovell the lying, stealing, cheating ****.

Shell we examine the quality of his post....?

Lovell1 wrote:A range cooker is ideal for large households or families that love to entertain. It saves you time by performing multiple functions simultaneously, making it easy to churn out large and elaborate meals with speed.
Before buying a range cooker, it is important to assess your cooking needs and preferences. For example, you need to know whether you want burners or hotplates. And do you want a window and a light in the oven? Do you need a built-in timer? Would you like a conventional, convection or radiant heat oven?
Take stock of the space you have available in your kitchen and the colour scheme you want. If you are switching from an electric cooker, do confirm whether you have a gas connection available in your home before making the purchase. You also need to whether you want a self-cleaning oven.

Oh look - he's just lifted this from here:

ezinearticles.com/?Range-Cookers&id=12325

Shall we press on....?

Assuming its a rangemaster by description excellent choice ! they are heavy but can be lifted by two men.... done it loads of times ! they can be lightened by taking everything out, drawer, oven racks, doors can be taken off, pan supports etc etc.
Possibly, but lifting is a problem as there's almost nothing on the underside to take the load. It has a full-width pan drawer on telescopic runners, and one of the problems I've had to report to the retailer is that when their delivery guys put it on a sack truck, thus lifting it by the drawer, they bent and twisted the runners and pulled them away from the cooker and drawer.

Doesn't seem to hang together, does it.

And this is why - look at the two consecutive posts starting with this one: http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic. ... 09#1706709

So why is he being such a useless, incompetent and pointless copy-and-paste merchant?

I wonder if the presence of advertising links in his signature might give us a clue?

by **timfoley** on Thu Dec 29, 2011 6:57 am

Ban-all,
Must admit I missed the spam links on this post before approving it. Not too often over the years that's happened but I've now removed Lovell from the forum.
I have toyed with the idea of removing the forum here altogether given that the huge majority wishing to post on it are now spammers and very few valid new posts seem to arrive but given that the info on here is still accessesed by many I've decided to keep it up, more as a reference and research point than for it's original purpose.

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