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INSTALLATION
Important warnings
• To avoid any possible hazard, the appliance may be installed by qualified personnel only.
• Panels and furniture lining of the kitchen cabinet receiving the hob must be treated with temperature resistant adhesives
(100°C), otherwise they might be discoloured or deformed because of inadequate temperature resistance.
• The cooking hob is intended for building into the worktop above the kitchen element of 600mm width or more.
• After the installation, make sure that there is free access to the two fixing elements in front.
• Suspended kitchen elements above the cooktop must be installed at such distance to provide enough room for
comfortable working process.
• The distance between the worktop and the hood must be at least such as indicated in the instructions for installation of
the kitchen hood, but in no case it may be less than 700mm.
• The use of hard wood decorative borders around the worktop behind the appliance is allowed, in case the minimum
distance remains as indicated on the installation illustrations.
• Minimum distance between the built-in cooktop and rear wall is indicated at the illustration for the installation of the built-
in cooktop.
• Ceramic-glass hob may be built into the 25 to 40mm thick worktops.
• Bottom kitchen element must not have a drawer. It must be fitted with a horizontal plate 20mm away from the worktop
bottom surface. Space between the plate and the hob must be empty and no objects may be stored or kept there.
• Rear side of the kitchen element must also have a 50mm high opening along the entire width of the element, and the
front part must have an opening of no less than 5mm.
• Incorporation of the oven under the hob is permissible for ovens equipped with a cooling fan .
Prior inserting the oven, it is necessary to remove the rear kitchen element panel in the area of the oven opening.
Equally, the front part of the element must have an opening of no less than 5mm.
A 580mm
B 510mm
C 560mm
D 490mm
E 40mm
F 5mm
G min.50 mm
H min.600mm
Installing the foam
gasket Before inserting the appliance into the opening in the kitchen worktop, the supplied foam
gasket must be attached to the lower side of the glass ceramic (glass) cooking hob.
Do not install the appliance without the foam gasket!
The gasket should be attached to the appliance in the following way:
▪ Remove the protective film from the gasket.
▪ Then, attach the gasket to the lower side of the glass, approximately 2-3 millimetres
from the edge.
▪ The gasket must be attached along the entire length of the glass edge and should not
overlap at the corners.
▪ When installing the gasket, make sure that the glass does not come into contact with
any sharp objects.