On 30/01/18 18:05, GB wrote:
The only way I can get the kitchen layout to work is to install the
electric hob above the washing machine. I can see it's not ideal, but is
it allowed? Any extra precautions I could take, eg install some sort of
vapour barrier?

1) Are you expecting steam off the washing machine? If it's a condenser
dryer or plain old washing machine, there's generally none IME.

2) The worktop mounted induction hobs have fans and expect a certain
amount of clearance underneath - it's quite small (a cm or three - check
the manuals online)

3) Induction hobs are very thin - the one's I know of more or less sit
within the thickness of a 40mm worktop.

4) They usually expect the bottom not to be exposed.

So you could build a box container under the worktop like this with the
front and back open - say a 2cm air slot or something like that


=====INDUCTION HOB HERE=======
||slot to the front and back||
------------------------------

WASHING MACHINE




Does that make sense?