Vintage GE Cooktop and Wall Oven Installation

[kelly0721]

Hi, I am new here and am hoping someone can answer a few questions for me regarding installing a vintage cooktop and wall oven. I am thinking of purchasing a vintage GE JC25 wall oven and a GE cooktop for my 1960s kitchen renovation, but I currently do not have a cabinet to place them in. I have a 30" space where I could place the cabinet for the cooktop and oven, but would need to do an over/under configuration with the cooktop placed in the counter top and the wall oven under the cooktop. Anyone have any ideas about what kind of cabinet I will need for this configuration? I was thinking of purchasing a cabinet made for just for this purpose (if I can find one) or repurposing a used 30" base cabinet if possible. I have seen this configuration done with modern appliances. I have attached photos of the cooktop and oven I want to purchase, as well as a photo of the over/under configuration.

 

[pulltostart]

I am not aware of any cabinets that you can purchase ready made/off the shelf for these appliances.  I think you will either have to re-configure a base cabinet that you purchase or get in touch with a cabinet shop and design exactly what you want for this pair and let the shop build it for you.

 

Nice appliances - good luck with your installation!

 

lawrence

 

[brib68]

Good luck!

I mean that as a cheerful well-wishing, not a sarcastic voice of doom

Those look like what my grandmother had in the house they lived in in the 3arly 80s, except hers were pink, with a matching refrigerator. All very pristine, as if they bought the house from their clones! (My grandmother was a little German cleaning dervish. Even in her 90's, she would make my neat-freak mother (her daughter) insane with her cleaning.)

 

[combo52]

Installing A Vintage GE WO and CT

The CT you have is too deep to install above your WO, newer CTs are much shorter, you may be able to still do it if you have counter tops that are a few inches higher than the standard 36" in height.

 

Also the older wall ovens are not well suited [ nor approved ] for mounting that low and in reach of children because of serious burn hazards around the oven vent and at the top above the door.

 

Sorry to have to say this, but if the job is ever inspected you may have a problem.