mother wants a new cooker
 

now she has a 55cm width one in a 60cm gap,

so will a 60cm cooker fit in a 60cm gap, as there is couboards both sides of the cooker there will not be anly gaps each side, maybe just a little

Re: mother wants a new cooker
 

mesure the gap top and bottom and check its the same, look at new cooker and see if it will fit.

Re: mother wants a new cooker
 

it will, butit will be very tight, and was worried about the sides getting hot & possible setting fire te to cupboard?

Re: mother wants a new cooker
 

But it will stop peas falling down the gap.

Re: mother wants a new cooker
 

I wouldnt have thought setting the cupboards on fire would be a problem as they do built in cookers and it doesnt seem to be a problem. If the gap is exactly 60cm and the cooker is exactly 60cm then it should fit but if the gap is 1mm smaller or the cooker 1mm bigger then it wont fit.

IMO :D

Re: mother wants a new cooker
 

It will fit. Just use a larger hammer. HTH.

Re: mother wants a new cooker
 

Correct!

Re: mother wants a new cooker
 

Woohoo! aquestion i can answer with confidence.

Mate i design and sell kitchens!!!

Simple answer is yes it will, but you need to be aware that certain cookers can get very hot on the outside and tho they propably wont set fore to the cabinets they may warp them a bit or make the veneer/laminate peel off the chipboard backing.

Some cookers are double walled at the sides and wont caus you any problems.

HTH but feel free to ask anything else mate. :D

Re: mother wants a new cooker
 

And I'm a kitchen fitter lol

Hovis, also make sure you have 600mm between the units towards the back (at the wall).
No good having 600mm at the front only to find out the ajacent units are kicking inwards giving you only 590mm etc..

With reagards to heat, like Spiderman said most cookers these days are double skinned.
Also if the ajacent units are made of chipboard then heat wont be a problem as it is very heat resitant, i.e won't warp or burn etc,though it may discolour after a while.
Even the units that modern intergrated cookers are slotted into are made of chipboard these days for the same reasons above, heat resistant and cheap to make.

If your cooker (which I presume is the slot-in/free standing type) is 600mm and the gap is between the units is 600mm then it will go in, providing the ajacent units are square, it'll be a tight fit though.
Oh, also make sure you have 600mm between the two ajacent worktops, some fitters like to leave a few mm of overhang + add to this the thickness of edging strips (if any).

Hope that helps mate