scherazade
Apr 5th, 2007, 12:35 PM
Hi
What a great website! After three rude encounters with gas fitters and one surly contractor, I am hoping you guys might be able to help me.
We just moved into a 14 year old house in Markham in which the previous owner had installed a kitchen that has no place for a dishwasher. I have a gas line running behind the one part of the kitchen where the dishwasher fits (after we removed a whole bunch of drawers).
The thing is
1)the dishwasher won’t sit flush against the wall because of the gas line, so now we have an eyesore of a dishwasher jutting out of the cabinet by about 5 inches; and
2) I am afraid to run the dishwasher because I am not sure how the heat is going to affect the piping behind it.
We still need the gas line for the stove sitting next to the dishwasher. The only solution is to move the gas line a few feet over from where it is now, or over onto the other side of the stove.
This would also involved cutting up part of the drywall in the finished basement downstairs, but we have accepted that needs to be done in order for all this to work out.
We are never going to go with the crazy awful contractor we initially hired who not only messed the project up but now has wrecked the install.
So
1) Would any one know of a good licensed gas fitter who might be able to do this for us? The ones who have come indicate that since the pipe is iron (?) and not copper they are unable to take up the job; and
2) Would anyone know of a good carpenter/drywaller that they could recommend?
Many thanks in advance!
:)
What a great website! After three rude encounters with gas fitters and one surly contractor, I am hoping you guys might be able to help me.
We just moved into a 14 year old house in Markham in which the previous owner had installed a kitchen that has no place for a dishwasher. I have a gas line running behind the one part of the kitchen where the dishwasher fits (after we removed a whole bunch of drawers).
The thing is
1)the dishwasher won’t sit flush against the wall because of the gas line, so now we have an eyesore of a dishwasher jutting out of the cabinet by about 5 inches; and
2) I am afraid to run the dishwasher because I am not sure how the heat is going to affect the piping behind it.
We still need the gas line for the stove sitting next to the dishwasher. The only solution is to move the gas line a few feet over from where it is now, or over onto the other side of the stove.
This would also involved cutting up part of the drywall in the finished basement downstairs, but we have accepted that needs to be done in order for all this to work out.
We are never going to go with the crazy awful contractor we initially hired who not only messed the project up but now has wrecked the install.
So
1) Would any one know of a good licensed gas fitter who might be able to do this for us? The ones who have come indicate that since the pipe is iron (?) and not copper they are unable to take up the job; and
2) Would anyone know of a good carpenter/drywaller that they could recommend?
Many thanks in advance!
:)