Basic Refrigeration Care Lots of people do daft things with fridges and freezers as well as fridge freezers in this article I’ll try to walk you through the major do’s and don’ts from installation to disposal. Installing A Fridge Freezer, Fridge Or Freezer Do M…
Category: Appliance Self Repair
Repair Your Own Appliance
Can you diagnose the problem and fix your own washing machine, dishwasher, tumble dryer, cooker or fridge freezer?
In this section we explain the top problems with domestic appliances, how they work and often how to go about diagnosing the fault and curing it, what spare part you might need and advice on how to avoid common appliance problems and maintain your appliances so they work better and last longer.
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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…
Oven And Cooker Grill Elements
How To Replace A Grill Element Grill elements fitted to most cookers and built in ovens are one of the most common failures, just like fan oven elements and, also like fan elements, there are many variations on the theme dependent on the make and model of oven or cooker. What we will…
Oven And Cooker Door Glass Shattering/Exploding
About Oven Door Glass On an all too regular basis we get posts in the forums about glass doors on cookers and ovens “exploding” or “shattering”. Normally when this happens people get a fright as when these glasses do fail they often do so with a bang and a rather dramatic helping …
Timer, Control Module Or Programmer Faulty
Faulty Control Modules Working in a busy spares department for many years we will often get people that woudl come to the spares counter or calling us daily asking how much a new programmer was for their machine. Without exception we would ask the simple question “What’s wrong with it…
How To Fit A Washing Machine Door Seal Gasket
How To Fit a Door Seal Door seals are often referred to by different people as door boot rubbers, door gaskets just door rubber seal and a host of other terms. They are generally fairly easy to change with a bit of patience and some DIY skills so long as it isn’t one that the front we…
Washing Machine Drive Belts
Washing Machine Drive Belts Often, especially with older machines, belts are often blamed as being a problem on machines when in fact they often are not. This is especially the case on washing machines and washer dryers where an induction motor is used, that is one that does not have …
Vacuum Cleaner Fault Finding
This short guide is designed to outline the most common problems, a kind of vacuum cleaner faults FAQ if you like, with what we refer to as “Floorcare” appliances, that is to say that they either vacuum, wash or polish floors. This guide is not intended as a “buyer’s guide” but we are working…
Oven And Cooker Fault Finding
How To Repair Your Oven Or Cooker For the most part basic ovens are usually quite simple appliances until you introduce advanced features. However price sensitivity in this area, especially on contract ranges normally supplied to builders and kitchen contractors, means that a lot of t…
Fault Finding For Fridges, Freezers and Fridge Freezers
How To Repair A Fridge Freezer This quick fault finding guide applies to fridges, freezers and fridge freezers Almost every single home in the UK will have some sort of refrigeration, be it a small fridge with an icebox or a grand American style side by side fridge freezer and, on occ…