Very often we will see the fault reported by owners that their cooker or more accurately, the oven on their cooker of just a straight built in oven will cut out when in use. Ordinarily this is when the oven heats up, often appears to reach the desired temperature but then from the user’s pe…
Category: Oven And Cooker Repair Guides
If you have a problem or fault with your cooker or a built-in oven then this is the section that deals with most of the common problems that we see on built in ovens and cookers and how you can repair or cure many of these yourself.
These guides give you diagnostic information and what to check to repair your oven or cooker yourself as well as general advice on how to replace an oven element, grill element and so on.
For more detailed help with specific models on how to repair a built-in oven, hob, cooker or range cooker, please ask in our forums.
Oven Cooking Temperature Performance
Oven Temperatures We will sometimes get comments from people about ovens running too hot or too cool all too often with people thinking that there’s some sort of issue with the oven causing this. If this is how you stumbled across this article then before you go to all the hassle and possib…
Oven And Cooker Fire Risks
Oven & Coooker Fires Cooker, built in oven and hob fires do get reported but we think less so than other appliances as it is probably more expected and, people expect that the cause is liable to be what was being cooked that was the problem and not the appliance. Again, as with al…
Replacing An Oven Function Switch
Oven Switches Oven selector switches that can be referred to as function switches or commutator switches are the small switch that sits behind the control knob of your oven and switch between the various functions of your oven. These switches range in shape, size and functions depende…
Oven & Cooker Tripping Problems
Oven & Cooker Tripping Electrics If your oven, cooker or hob trips the electrics or, trips an RCD (Residual Current Device), fuse or other safety device then there is a number of simple checks that you can do in order to try to narrow down what the problem could be. It should be pointed out t…
Temperature Testing A Built In Oven
Oven Temperature Testing It is fairly common to receive complaints or concerns about the temperature of a built in oven or cooker in respect to the heat in external panels as often people think that they are too hot. The reality is that it is incredibly rare to get an oven, especially…
Gas Appliances
Gas Cooking 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 enough that s…
How To Remove A Built In Oven
How To Get An Oven Out Of A Unit Often the oven will have to be removed from the housing in order to obtain the correct model and serial number information but it is also often the case that the oven has to be removed so as to effect a repair. Many people see this as a daunting task t…
How To Replace Oven Door Hinges
Oven Hinge Replacement Instructions There are many different types of cooker hinge and, not surprisingly, just as many ways in which that they are fitted to a door or oven chassis but it is uncommon for the oven door hinge not to be mounted on the door itself. The reason for this is t…
Oven Symbols And Functions
What Oven Symbols Mean We get asked constantly for oven instruction manuals when, to be honest, once you understand the basics of an electric oven there really isn’t usually that much to know about. The biggest cause of confusion is where you move into a house with an oven or cooker f…