Built-in oven crisis - help!

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So - our built-in single oven/grill has broken.
Looking online for a replacement, I see that our oven is somehow narrower and slightly less tall than the standard size. I literally can't find a single oven that would fit our aperture.
There's no solution to this, is there?
Short of destroying half of our kitchen (including the space for the mini- oven above, drawer units below and to the side, etc), all I can think of is to buy a separate oven unit and shove it in the conservatory or something - though we really don't have room for it. We are cramped as it is.
Any other ideas?!

Give us some actual measurements and help may be possible.

Can you show us a photo? Is there any reason why you can't replace the unit the oven sits in and fill the gap to the next unit?

So.com has smaller single ovens H45.5 x W59.5 x D56.7

Aaaargh www.ao.com

Also if the element has broken that's fixable fairly easily and cheaply

Thank you. I've measured the gap and the problem is the width = 56cm and the height = 59cm.

What's the brand of the original oven and who made the kitchen units?

The metal tray thing right at the top and the element below it have sort of collapsed and I can't manage to fix it..

Check the actual dimensions closely too, e.g. our need oven is advertised as 60x60cm. But it's not actually that size, it fits into a 60cm unit but the hole in a 60cm unit is not 60cm

There's no branding on the oven, but a sticky label says Neff GMBH. May have been put in by the people who put up the housing estate - one of the mass builders. To save space and money presumably they had a special deal for narrow ovens.

They must have known everyone would be stuffed when the ovens failed.

E.g here is the niche dimension, so it would fit in your gap

They all advertise widths of 59.5 to 60, and depths of 59.5.

So it's a neff and sounds like a neff will fit in it's place, according to the dimensions above.

If it's a standard kitchen cabinet I suspect you will have other choices if you investigate the niche size

My hope was some flexibility - but some advertise aperture measurements separately, and they are much the same.

They advertise the appliance width and typically the oven door fits in front of the cabinet so is wider than the hole you actually need. If you see in the screenshot it says appliance width 596 but niche width 560.

Don’t panic! I was in exactly the same situation as you. My neff oven broke a couple of years after we moved in-I ordered another neff over to replace it then panicked as the measurements were a couple of cm’s different. My new oven was bigger but fit perfectly into the niche.

I've checked the Neff site - it looks as though one may just just fit (fingers crossed). Unfortunately, it's 5 times the usual price of that size of oven!! I'll see if I can find one to look at before I commit.
Thank you for the suggestions.

I'd be surprised if only one oven from one brand would fit. Units are standard sizes, a householder isn't making bespoke kitchen units.

Most appliances are 60cm with smaller 55cm versions

You’ll also find they’ll be ‘packing’ inside the cupboard to help the appliance fit.

Ours sits on two wooden plinths

Take out the old one, probably just 4 screws inside the own door and you’ll get a better idea

I've already taken it out, so unfortunately the space really is that size.

Just looking on ao and they don't actually list the aperture requirements there, but 99% of the time a built in oven fits a built in unit. I think the only thing to check is whether it's hard wired or plugged into a socket. I'd cross reference with the brand site to find aperture dimensions if you want the extra reassurance.

I think I'll call a specialist kitchen shop and ask them what they advise. That hadn't occurred to me - I'd just checked Amazon, Argos, Currys etc.I'm sure I'll have to pay a lot more than the usual, unfortunately. I haven't managed to find anything narrow at all.

www.johnlewis.com/neff-b1gcc0an0b-built-in-single-oven-stainless-steel/p4289032

If you check out the dimensions on the neff website this will fit

If you try and find out the manufacturer and call their customer service team they should be able to give you a price to come out and repair it.
My oven broke recently and I was at the point of ordering the cheapest one as I plan a new kitchen next Spring. My FIL a retired plumber suggested doing that and New World came out for £155 including parts and repaired it. The cheapest oven I priced was £229 excluding fitting.