Help! My oven just broke

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I put something in the oven, took the dd's to bed and when I came downstairs again realised the downstairs sockets had blown. After 45 minutes of said food being in the oven I finally realised it wasn't getting hot

Its a built in Whirlpool oven, is it best to replace or call someone out to get it fixed?

We got one of their engineers out and were able to take out a warranty which was cheaper than paying for a one-off repair and they'd have replaced it foc if repair didn't work. tbh if it went again we'd replace as a fairly basic model and over 10 years old now

I got a second oven. 30 quid well spent. In the meantime cleaned the kaput one [ blush] before the man came round. Now I've two and very useful it is too.

ours is around 4-5 years old (house is a new build we are the 2nd owners)

we dont really have £15 a month to pay for a warranty, we dont really have the money to pay for a new oven/repair either but we will have to find it

^ mini oven counter top style. Can fit a lot in it though.

Think we paid £120 ish which is cheaper than spending a couple of hundred on a new oven plus fitting .

I replaced the heating coil on our built in oven, ordered on line, you tube video, really straight forward. Do you know what's gone on it?

And a lot cheaper than £120!

Try here

Other wise I can cook without an oven. Stir fries, pasta dishes, stews. Fried stuff. Have you a slow cooker? Some can even do roasts.

And think this is the video I used

www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4235390.htm

This sort if thing. Can do quite a lot in it.

I have a slow cooker so I'm not worried, I just need an oven too! I usually cook most things from scratch in the oven and have also ben uing it to heaat the kitchen and dining room after I've cooked instead of the radiators (electric oven) the hob is gas so will cost more to cook food, minimal I know but still more.

Sorry Gin I missed your comment. I have no idea whats gone, the fan seems to be working on it, but not its just not heating.

Probably the element then. When I unscrewed our old one you could see that it had blown. Just remember to turn off the electric to the oven before you start, and take a picture on your phone off where the old wires are before you take them out so you can put them back the same way.

Sounds like the element is blown. Get someone to help you unscrew it at the front (usually a screw either side) and pull it out. If it's a plug in jobby, you can get one and replace it yourself quite easily.

Sorry the link was to a small 30 quid cooker. Stir fries would be cheap as they are quick. Otherwise stew and mash or rice? Have you an efficient microwave?

I now know way more about our oven than I ever wanted to know!

thanks for the link to the whirlpool parts store. It would seem the part to replace is only going to cost £40 and we've found the installation manual online. Hoping we can attempt to fix it ourselves. fx!

It sounds very similar to what has just happened to our oven. When I switched it on all the electrics went off downstairs and then the oven just didn't work.

We found a local man on yell.com (his timekeeping was appalling so I wouldn't recommend him!) but he sorted it. He had to take the oven out of the wall which looked a lot easier than I thought it'd be, and then on our oven there are two elements, one you can see around the fan in the back and one which goes underneath the bottom of the oven. It was the underneath one that had gone on ours. It cost £95 to fix, £50 for the element and the rest for labour. So its worth getting it mended rather than getting a new oven. Its just finding the right person to fix it that's the problem!

Sorry cross posted!

I have never felt so proud as when dp came in the door and I showed him that I had fixed the oven! He still thinks it was hard and complicated, but honestly it was a piece of piss!