range cooker to take or not to take??

Hello guys,

I need a bit of advice please....

I have a large range cooker that has electric ovens and a gas hob. I know it sounds a bit extreme, but I love cooking and its a very big part of my life. So when we had a new kitchen a couple of years ago I had the range that I always wanted as we didn't think we'd be moving again!!! (then we got this chance to live in oz!)

firstly I need to know if it would be compatible with aussie gas and electric?

and whether to take it with us or not as we'd like to build our own house eventually and I don't want to spend the same amount on a cooker again!

any advice gratefully received.

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The electric will be fine but it is the gas which could be a problem. There was a thread on another forum about bringing a gas stove Gas Stove - Kitchen - Home and generally the answer was no, dont risk it. Australia is very bureaucratic about what you can and cannot bring (did you know you cant legally use your UK cordless phones for example?). I know that bottled gas appliances werent compatible with calor gas when we brought a heater over.

You may have to sell it and save up for a new one I should think. But you could check with the state you are going to live in and see what they say.

I have an Aga don't think there's much chance of bringing that do you?

We brought over our Gas BBQ and patio heaters and we only needed to buy new regulators! - The fittings were the same 'gauge' and screwed in easily so my guess is that you would be able to buy any new regulators/adapters here without much problem but a Gas fitter would probably be able to give you a definitive answer.

Daniel

I would risk it and bring it. Whatever it cost there will probably cost double or more here. The choice is somewhat limited too. I have only seen 1 and it was over $6000 and it weren't nothing special.

Gas and Electric cookers, by law, have to be fitted by a registered fitter (at least in Qld) .........one of the reasons that they're left in the house after sale..........classed as a fixture. Ours needed 2 tradies to install an electrician for the oven and extractor and a gas fitter for the hob:rolleyes:

Both are directly powered........that is they are "hard wired". You can't plug or unplug them.......again, that's a fitter's job.

So, if you brought it, you would have the expense of removing the one in the house that you buy and the expense of installing yours. Even the purchase of a new home build invariably ties you to the installation of one of the builder's range of cookers.

Dunno about other states?

kev

I have an Aga don't think there's much chance of bringing that do you?

There is an Aga distributor in Australia.

If yours is a wood fuelled Aga I don't see any problem apart from the expense.

If it is powered some other way you'd need to check that it complied with the regulations/fitting in whichever state you were moving to.

Hi

There's probably a good chance that your cooker would work in Australia, all depends what type of gas it's been hooked to in the UK. If you wish to use the appliance on LPGas and its been connected up to Natural in the Uk then the injectors will have to be changed along with any other manufacturer's recommendations.

To leagaly use it in Australia, you'll have to get it certified by an appropriate authority before it can be installed, approval in QLD can cost up to 300 bucks. Then you'll have to employ a licensed gas fitter to do ther installation and carry out the commissioning process and issue a certificate of compliance. the certificate will state the installation is sound and fit for use. As previously stated, an appliance of the same quality over here would probably cost you twice as much, but then again your facing the costs of approval etc. So in the end it's up to yourself to weigh up the pro's and cons of it all.

There are plenty of gas appliance spare's outlets in Australia, although many Euro manufacture's tend to have there own specialised spares outlets (thus making plenty of money on spares).

Andy&Yvonne

We had a similar dilemma when we moved over. We had had the kitchen in our UK home knocked through and re-fitted, and had bought a gorgeous Rangemaster in black and chrome to put in. We only had it done a year before we moved out here (didn't know at the time) and were intending to bring it. In the end we didn't because firstly there was the question of whether it would work (ours was electric and LPG), the cost in getting it to work, the cost of getting it here in the container, the cooker hood was bought to match and we would have had to leave that in the UK because it was part of the kitchen, and we also decided that the chances of finding a house with a kitchen that would fit it would be pretty remote, meaning expense of having a new kitchen. As it happens, the house we bought doesn't have LPG or gas in the kitchen, so we would have had the additional expense of having that put in too. Plus, having cooked now on induction hobs, I'd not go back to gas (and that's saying something, I used to love cooking on gas) because they are just as instant, and are far easier to clean.

I wouldn't bring it if I were you. You can get good ones here these days and why risk a large expensive transport cost for something which may well not work? I would sell it and put the money towards a new one. Also, houses here all have kitchen stoves in them when you buy so you would have to have an electrician and gas fitter in to not only dismantle that but also set up your new one.

Hello guys,

I need a bit of advice please....

I have a large range cooker that has electric ovens and a gas hob. I know it sounds a bit extreme, but I love cooking and its a very big part of my life. So when we had a new kitchen a couple of years ago I had the range that I always wanted as we didn't think we'd be moving again!!! (then we got this chance to live in oz!)

firstly I need to know if it would be compatible with aussie gas and electric?

and whether to take it with us or not as we'd like to build our own house eventually and I don't want to spend the same amount on a cooker again!

any advice gratefully received.

:wink::biggrin:

Hi, I know this thread is a bit old but the answer to the question regarding UK range cooker being used in Australia is yes. I brought mine 6 years ago (to NSW), it was a Belling range cooker, 7 burner gas hob and electric ovens. You have to make sure you find a gas plumber that knows about the differences between UK and OZ though. He ordered me some new bits relating to the gas pressure and it cost me a couple of hundred dollars to get it fitted. My cooker would have cost me $8000 here so it saved me thousands!

Just to add some figures. I've recently imported a Rangemaster from the UK - local price $8000, UK price GBP 1570 for the induction model. Basically shipping it from the UK with the matching rangehood ($1800 locally, GBP 350) has come to about $4500 instead of the $10000 buying local would. The daft thing is that the retailer is only a rep for the brand, and if you bought from them they get it shipped from the UK instead of holding stock.

Hi! Sorry a very late reply to your post.. but we have just got to Australia and I have brought my Belling Range Cooker - Gas Hob, Electric Ovens as you did and was told the gas is different might not be able to fit it and would have to get it approved first? Did you gas fitter get new feeders for the gas hobs? Would love to keep my cooker if possible as they are so expensive here! We are in NSW, thanks for your help.

2nds world do great deals on appliances/cookers I bought my Smeg stove top from there for half the price or alternatively my favourite website is Harvey Norman.

Just to add some figures. I've recently imported a Rangemaster from the UK - local price $8000, UK price GBP 1570 for the induction model. Basically shipping it from the UK with the matching rangehood ($1800 locally, GBP 350) has come to about $4500 instead of the $10000 buying local would. The daft thing is that the retailer is only a rep for the brand, and if you bought from them they get it shipped from the UK instead of holding stock.

Crikey, I had no idea they were so expensive here. I must be lucky because the house we bought here has a really good range cooker in the kitchen. Gas top and electric oven.

Yeah, couldn't say with the Smegs and the Bellings of the world; we saw the model we liked in a showroom and were all set to buy it, then i researched a bit...

Of course exchange rate was way better then, but even now I reckon you'd save about 30-40%.