I bought the fixing kit with the ends from the UK. My mistake was that I bought the wrong bore. Too big. The specialist calculated for the distance from my gas to the cooker to avoid any pressure drop etc but it is like a mains gas pipe. I think that a smaller diameter would have sufficed and been easier to bend etc. Possibly cheaper too.
You may need to then use an additional conversion fitting on the ends to match your appliance and the gas bottle regulator. These can be found online.
Butane has to be indoors. The risk is mitigated by only allowing the 13kg bottles with approved regulators indoors.
IIRC, youāre allowed one bottle in use and one full spare inside your property, with the spare being stored away from any likely cause of damage or directed heat.
and the risk mitigated further by using preformed and tested tuyau designed for the job rather than self made up ones secured using hose clips which might not be gas tight or work loose.
I remember years back there kept being spates of explosions in domestic dwellings from using butane incorrectly. They then bought out the small cubes for easier transport and usage but if you had a family like me and was cooking every day, they soon ran out. Use the correct fittings, not cobbled together home made, you could be vry sorry and your insurers wonāt pay out either.
Ours too and in our house. No way would I put a butane gas bottle outside. We keep our spare full ones in the garage and they are a nightmare to light in midwinter if we forget to bring them in a couple of days before we need them so that they can warm up.
When we sold our last house 6 years ago, a diagnostic survey was required.
Ours failed because the gas hob was connected to gas bottles outside the house by copper piping. This meant it was a fixed installation and required ventilation to the outside at floor and ceiling level. Due to the thick walls involved, this was totally impractical.
The solution was to bring the bottles inside and connect with a flexible hose. Then were able to get our certificate. I am no expert, so when I queried how this made it safer I was met with the usual Gallic shrug.
Except that you can have a heater with a butane bottle and a cooker with a compartment to put the bottle in, as stella said earlier. These items are readily available to buy .However there is nothing to stop you doing just that with your butane bottles its just not the regs in france
I have my first induction hob ever in my new house and I love it after some hesitation about itās safety but no way now would I ever go back to butane hobs after years of them. The induction hob is so fast, boiling temps so much faster,stops heating immediately and its clean too. It got to the point whereby I could not lift the 13kg out of my boot any more due to weak wrist and get it into the house that my son put his foot down. As for keeping butane indoors for cooking, it was inspected on the house sale diagnostic end of last year and passed with flying colours especially as I had a steel flexi tube fitted and not a rubber one. I always made sure I turned the bottle off when I went away and never had a problem. If they were dangerous to be kept indoors, why do the cooker manufacturers make models with the cupboard incorporated on the side, the normes people would have banned them even though they are a bit old fashioned these days.
This being the key, and sadly one of the reasons I rarely visit or comment here now, I became sick and tired of people presenting their opinions as fact constantly. I donāt wish to pick on you as youāre certainly not alone in this but you saidā¦
ā¦then in just 6 comments had to do a climb down and in a round-about way admit that in fact thatās not true, just your preference, and perhaps a very sensible one, but itās absolutely exhausting dealing with people who seem to have no humility or ability to appreciate that every thought in their head isnāt immediately fact.
Blimey, this has escalated a bit, hasnāt it? For all those who replied with useful and sensible comments, thank you.
I am not unused to installing a gas stove, as Iāve done it before, in France with no problems, using propane from 13Kg bottles outside. I drilled the stone wall myself, to pass through the flexible hose complete with connectors.
As I now occupy a rental property, I canāt start drilling large holes, or enlarging existing ones, hence my original post. I just needed to source an appropriate flexible hose, and connectors which I can fit myself. I shall press on, regardless.
I have searched for a local gas fitter, as advised by some, but have thus far drawn a blank.
Thatās in the nature of SF - a discussion forum not a simple question/answer resource.
Itās what make this place particularly attractive to its membership.
