I have a 60 year old gas wall oven with broiler in a smaller door on the bottom. It still looks great, but doesn't keep temp well, and the top door has a broken hinge and is troublesome for the wife to shut.
I got a great deal on an electric double wall oven. 2 years old and like new for 225. Being that it is a double, i knew the cabinet cutout would have to lengthened vertically. The old gas and the new electric are both 24 inch ovens, but of course the new oven is about 1.25 inches deeper.
Here is where the issue lies. The old oven was gas, and had no shutoff valve. All the rest of the gas appliances in the house have shutoff valves. I was unable to access where the black iron pipe goes into the wall behind the oven without removing the oven. The other side of the cinder block wall, behind the oven cabinet, has my furnace and supply ducts snugged right up to the wall. So I removed the oven and capped the gas line. The problem is the cap sticks out about 2.25 inches from the back wall. That is the only obstruction keeping the new stove from fitting.
Here are a few of the solutions i have come up with to deal with it. Move the whole oven up higher to avoid the cap. The problem here is that to be above the cap, the controls for the oven will be about 6.5 feet off the ground. Another option is to cutout a section of the back panel of the oven to accommodate the cap (there is a 2 inch recessed area that covers the insulated back side of the oven). The covered area houses wires, so i assume it would be safe for the pipe cap to be within .25 inches of the back wall of the oven. Lastly and probably the route i will go is to reface the whole cabinet from the floor to the ceiling to make it 1.5 inches deeper. This would allow the oven to be mounted directly to the face frame and still clear the pipe cap.
Has anyone tried any of these solutions to make an oven fit? I'm really leaning toward building out the front of the cabinet 1.5 inches. I think that would be the best bet without disrupting the integrity of the oven cabinet, but of course the easiest would be to cut a hole in the back of the oven panel to accommodate the cap.
I got a great deal on an electric double wall oven. 2 years old and like new for 225. Being that it is a double, i knew the cabinet cutout would have to lengthened vertically. The old gas and the new electric are both 24 inch ovens, but of course the new oven is about 1.25 inches deeper.
Here is where the issue lies. The old oven was gas, and had no shutoff valve. All the rest of the gas appliances in the house have shutoff valves. I was unable to access where the black iron pipe goes into the wall behind the oven without removing the oven. The other side of the cinder block wall, behind the oven cabinet, has my furnace and supply ducts snugged right up to the wall. So I removed the oven and capped the gas line. The problem is the cap sticks out about 2.25 inches from the back wall. That is the only obstruction keeping the new stove from fitting.
Here are a few of the solutions i have come up with to deal with it. Move the whole oven up higher to avoid the cap. The problem here is that to be above the cap, the controls for the oven will be about 6.5 feet off the ground. Another option is to cutout a section of the back panel of the oven to accommodate the cap (there is a 2 inch recessed area that covers the insulated back side of the oven). The covered area houses wires, so i assume it would be safe for the pipe cap to be within .25 inches of the back wall of the oven. Lastly and probably the route i will go is to reface the whole cabinet from the floor to the ceiling to make it 1.5 inches deeper. This would allow the oven to be mounted directly to the face frame and still clear the pipe cap.
Has anyone tried any of these solutions to make an oven fit? I'm really leaning toward building out the front of the cabinet 1.5 inches. I think that would be the best bet without disrupting the integrity of the oven cabinet, but of course the easiest would be to cut a hole in the back of the oven panel to accommodate the cap.
