Residential Rangetop Clearances to wall cabinet 3

[azmanatheart]

Hi,
I'm a kitchen designer and my customer is builder who wants me to install 16" deep wall cabinets next to his commercial cooktop. The manufacture specs clearly say that when you have a 36" cooktop with a 36" wide hood above it, you may not be more than 13" deep with your wall cabinets,(at 18" min above the burners) unless you move 6" further away on each side.
He contends that is a manufacturer recomendation and not a code and wants me to order the cabinets that way. I contend it is a fire hazard, but I have very limitec access to Code Books, and cannot look it up without paying a huge subscription fee. Can any oneone cite the code, if there is one?

 

[cdafd]

Some stuff is nit covered in the codes, but differ to manufacture specs


Now the thing is if the inspector will read and enforce what the manufacture suggests

The other thing if the house burns down the insurance company might do some research to see if and who installed them to manufacture specs

 

[stookeyfpe]

CDA is correct. It comes down to the appliance listing.

 

[azmanatheart]

Thank you cdafd and stookeyfpe for your valuable input.
I decided to change the cabinets back to the required depth by the manufacturer, and told the builder that I would not be responsible and he would have to sign off on not listening to my advice, which changed his mind very quickly.

Who needs to worry about these things?

 

[cdafd]

Is this in a city or place that has a building inspector ???