This is probably one of the most common issues that we hear about hoods, the motor isn’t working or it’s not spinning up to speed and people assume that they need a new motor. Which, by the way, isn’t always the case as we’ll explain. People have this “go-to” often of whatever ails th…
Category: Hob And Cooker Hood Repair Guides
In this section we cover gas and electric as well as induction and ceramic cooking hobs or hobtops and cooker hoods, the common issues with these appliances and how to resolve them.
These guides will allow you to diagnose the fault with your appliance and to how repair it yourself.
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Gas Burners Not Staying Lit
Gas Hob Burners Gas burners on cooking appliances, these days, are generally only used for an oven burner and of course hob burners that you will find as a stand alone built in hob and, also on the top of a cooker or a range cooker. In the past you could also find gas grills but these…
Cooker Hood Fault Diagnosis
Fault Finding For Cooker Hoods Cooker hoods are usually simple enough appliances to diagnose faults on and to repair or, they are at least to professional appliance repairers like ourselves. If however you have no experience with them and take a peek inside you will very often see lit…
Poor Extraction from A Cooker Hood
Cooker Hood Not Extracting A cooker hood not extracting correctly is a very common compliant that people have with these appliances and there is a number of simple things that you can do yourself to prove or disprove that there is a fault with your extractor. The first thing to realis…
Cooker And Hob Hotplate Types
Hotplates, ringplates, ceramic plates, halogen plates, induction hobs; confused? There are several options when it comes to cooking on a hobtop, whether that hob is attached to a cooker or a built-in hob and, when it is electric and not gas, it gets very confusing indeed with the opti…
Gas Hobs
Gas Hobs And Cookers Gas appliances can be an extreme hazard and it is strongly inadvisable to attempt repairs yourself, please call a Gas Safe registered repairer. If you are even vaguely hesitant about gas and cannot do a drop test DO NOT INTERFERE WITH IT. I cannot stress enou…