Highland Grace wrote:

Moving into a house where we are pulling out & replacing kitchen -
previous cooker is all electric, however we want to put in an electric
oven / gas hob.

Q1. We are not sure if there is a gas point at all. How difficult / how
much would it be to get a Corgi man out to put one in? There is already
gas central heating in the house. And how much would he charge to fit
the hob?

Depends on how far the existing gas supply is from where you want the
hob fitting, and how complicated the route will be for the new pipework.
If it's any help, I recently paid about 200 quid to have a gas hob and
gas oven fitted, where there was a gas pipe feeding a boiler on the
adjacent wall; this also included a landlord's gas certificate which you
wouldn't need.

Q2. Would we have to have the worktop cut & ready for him coming? (How
sexist - it may well be a lady ....sorry if I have offended anyone!!)

Definitely. You certainly want to avoid him having to come back and
hitting you with a second callout charge if it's not ready (and sexist
or not, I have yet to be visited by a female gas fitter!)

Q3. I am assuming that it will be easy enough to fit the electric oven

Most likely, yes. The only problem I can think of is that if you are
haven't already got a dedicated cooker circuit (which is unlikely if you
were previously all-electric) and if the oven you want to fit is one
which requires a dedicated circuit (usually obvious because it won't
come with a 13A plug attached, but needs checking).

Q4. What kind of fan / extracter etc will we need by law? We do have a
window but the cooker can't go on the same wall as it i.e to take air
outside.

By law, nothing as far as I'm aware, because you are refurbishing an
existing kitchen and if you don't already have an extractor you aren't
forced to fit one. NB however there are separate rules due to fitting a
gas appliance, especially if it's a very small kitchen - see the
gas-fitting FAQ at:
http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/GasFitting.html

David