New kitchen range: anyone install the anti-tip bracket?

[NetWareHead]

Since when did ranges start coming with this extra piece? Supposedly to secure the stove to the floor so it can't tip over. I mean seriously, is this needed? I have gone my entire life time and have never heard of a range tipping over. The only way I could see it tipping is if a kid perhaps stands on the open over door and upsets the balance on the range tipping it over. I have tile floor under the range and the last thing I want to do is drill into it so I can screw this bracket into the floor. Any thoughts?

 

[dabuddha]

I didn't bother with mine. Of course I'll probably be the first man ever to be crushed to death by my stove tipping over onto me.

 

[Zee]

didnt bother

 

[TheUnk]

I can't see a stove tipping over even with someone standing on the open door, unless the doors hinge is pretty high up. All the stoves I've used the hinge is maybe 6" or so from the found, surely not enough to tip it over completely.

 

[Krazy4Real]

Mine has it installed. Nice thing is that it doesn't budge at all if you slam the door open or closed, or if you're scrubbing a bit while cleaning it and it's empty.

Other than that, you don't notice the difference.

 

[NoCreativity]

I definitely installed mine so I could work my abs without risk of injury

 

[slag]

We move the stove a couple times a year to clean under it and find lost toys. I don't think I'd want it bolted down.

 

[NetWareHead]

Mine has it installed. Nice thing is that it doesn't budge at all if you slam the door open or closed, or if you're scrubbing a bit while cleaning it and it's empty.

Other than that, you don't notice the difference.

I just don't want to install this on a range that sits on a tile floor and risk cracking a floor tile. Than again, I wonder if by some unfortunate unlikely freak circumstances, I'll get sued if someone injures themselves by a tipped over stove.

 

[nageov3t]

unless I lived in an earthquake zone and wanted to keep the oven from ever shifting, I probably wouldn't bother.

 

[NetWareHead]

We move the stove a couple times a year to clean under it and find lost toys. I don't think I'd want it bolted down.

My understanding of it is that it is a floor mounted bracket that you slide the stove backwards into. You can still move the stove forward for cleaning purposes, just not tip it.

 

[boomerang]

I just don't want to install this on a range that sits on a tile floor and risk cracking a floor tile. Than again, I wonder if by some unfortunate unlikely freak circumstances, I'll get sued if someone injures themselves by a tipped over stove.

I think your concerns about cracking a tile are a bit overblown. Even if it were to happen it's under the stove. Who beside you will know?

The bracket is included so the manufacturer doesn't get sued. They decided it was not worth the risk. Your decision will be yours and yours alone.

 

[Krazy4Real]

My understanding of it is that it is a floor mounted bracket that you slide the stove backwards into. You can still move the stove forward for cleaning purposes, just not tip it.

Yes, that is how mine works. I can still slide it straight out without having to undo anything.

 

[DrPizza]

I regret installing mine. It came with a 3" screw to securely fasten it. The screw was angled into the 2x4 in the wall, and with great bad luck, into the 12/2 wire feeding the microwave above the stove. It wasted half an hour of my time rerunning the wiring from the breaker box back to the microwave.

 

[Meghan54]

I regret installing mine. It came with a 3" screw to securely fasten it. The screw was angled into the 2x4 in the wall, and with great bad luck, into the 12/2 wire feeding the microwave above the stove. It wasted half an hour of my time rerunning the wiring from the breaker box back to the microwave.

Such is life. Kinda funny, tho.

Didn't install ours when we put our new stove in last May. Don't have any kids that might try climbing on the open oven door, which from what I understand was the impetus for the hold down bracket....keeps the stove from tipping over on a kid that's using the oven door as a step ladder.

 

[BoomerD]

Those are nothing new...they've been included with ranges for many years...and most people don't bother installing them. (I haven't installed them with the last two we've bought.)

 

[NutBucket]

unless I lived in an earthquake zone and wanted to keep the oven from ever shifting, I probably wouldn't bother.

Nobody I know installs them here

 

[bruceb]

Not on my Sears gas stove .. I don't think it came with one (but that was about 9 years or so back) .. My stove in my new house being built may have one (will know when I see it after move in)

 

[BurnItDwn]

Have never installed, will never install.

 

[Linflas]

Nope. It is still in the parts bag that came with the range.

 

[amdskip]

Installed because it came with it. New house now doesn't have one.

New dressers and night stands came with them too. I haven't bothered install those though.

 

[Sluggo]

You could put it in the lease that the new tenant has to install it.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

I definitely installed mine so I could work my abs without risk of injury

LOL

 

[deerslayer]

New dressers and night stands came with them too. I haven't bothered install those though.

Your wife will make you when she starts popping babies out If she doesn't I'll have my wife talk to her. Then she will.

 

[NutBucket]

That's legitimate. If you're stupid those can tip quite easily. We've got some rather low 3-drawer dressers. Open the top two and it will definitely tip over. One drawer at a time no problem.

Also why the Lista cabinets we have at work have a mechanism that only allows one drawer to be open at a time.

 

[kranky]

The guy who came to deliver and hook up our new stove a couple years ago said he was required to install the bracket. My wife said she didn't want it screwed into the floor, he immediately caved.