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  • Cooker Fixer
  • CharlieMungus
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    My electric cooker has gone wrong. Do I just call an electrician or do I call some other kind of specialist?

    rwamartin
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    Call a specialist appliance engineer. An electrician will not have the parts to do it and probably not the expertise.

    Cougar
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    MTFU and replace the element?

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    CharlieMungus
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    Level 1 Manliness was knowing it was not the element.

    ste_t
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    Google ‘oven repairs near me?’

    CharlieMungus
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    But, where do you live?

    lazlowoodbine
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    Have the model number and serial number ready when you phone the repairers. You’ll find them on the rating plate, a little silver sticker/badge that’s almost certainly around the main oven door aperture. Check for other numbers as well, Electrolux group have a PNC code, Bosch an FD.. number etc.

    A good firm will ask you several questions before calling out to try and diagnose the fault. Having all the details as above will save them time and you money.

    dangeourbrain
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    And be ready to price up a new oven. I was recently quoted £85 +vat call out including half an hour labour, then 45+vat per half hour and parts to fix two ignitions on gas cooker. “It’ll take about an hour plus 20 i parts” he said “I’ll be making do with matches.” i said

    lazlowoodbine
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    Anything gas will be a lot of money to have repaired thanks to all the regulations associated with it.

    I don’t work with gas, only electric stuff as it’s not economical to get set up for gas. We charge under half the prices quoted above.

    EDIT: That said we do replace electrical and mechanical parts on gas appliances as long as it does no involve touching a single gas carrying component. Ignitors would normally be seperate from the gas lines themselves but then if you’re getting quotes from a Gas Safe registered company they will charge Gas Safe registered prices regardless.

    Klunk
    Free Member

    Level 1 Manliness was knowing it was not the element.

    thermostat ? even easier DIY fix.

    CharlieMungus
    Free Member

    It does look like the overheat thermostat, It doesn’t look easy, it’s a built in and i think the stat is in the back somewhere

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