Gas oven goes out

langtounboy

Please help, my gas range oven occasionally goes out after 2 or 3 minutes.
When this happens if you try to re-light it straight away it takes a fair while with the ignition button pressed in.
If you leave it another 5 minutes it re-lights no problem

Are there any gas oven engineers out there to tell me what's wrong or someone that can direct me to a website that explains how the oven works and the safety devices fitted.

Avoriaz

I would hazard a guess that the safety device is faulty. This is a device that monitors the temperature of the gas jets and cuts off the flow of gas if it senses that there is no flame.

It is probably giving a false reading and cutting off the gas even though it is alight.

flang

how old is the cooker?
Im no gas fitter but could there be to much air mixing with the gas?
does the flame burn blue or orange?

langtounboy

The range is 3 years old and the flame is blue.

hammerwood

is your hot water also gas heated? Does the cooker go off when the hot water comes on?

I had the above problem a few weeks ago - and it turned out my gas meter was leaking !!!! Have a sniff around, just in case. I called British Gas (emergency number in the phone book), and they were round within the hour and fitted a new part to the meter - no charge.

langtounboy

No problems with boiler or water only the range. I'm sure its a fault with the oven.
The problem is intermittent which makes it more annoying. And after it has done it once when its re-lit no problem