Lamona Range Cooker

Becky_Laing

Hello,

I'm trying to be good and shop around for an affordable, good quality range cooker. We are getting our Kitchen through our builder from Howdens. They offer the Lamona Range Cooker, which looks very nice and is within our price range (discount offered, but never 100% sure how real the original price was). One small problem - I can't find a review of the cooker anywhere.

Has anyone got a Lomana Range Cooker at home - if you do, could you let me know if it's any good and worth buying?

Many thanks, Becky.

cddc

If it is Lamona, it is Beko, and therefore probably not very good and available for less elsewhere.

Meepster

Don't bother with Lemon appliances, they are pretty poor.

You should be able to find something for a similar price, but much better in quality.

evelyn11

Have lamona range cooker s/s. Have problem removing inner glass door panel (bottom left) Has anyone else had this problem?

katejo

evelyn11 wrote: »

Have lamona range cooker s/s. Have problem removing inner glass door panel (bottom left) Has anyone else had this problem?

I have also had a quote for a Howdens kitchen including Lamona appliances but won't be getting the appliances as I have read several bad reviews of them here on MSE (not specifically about the range cooker as I wasn't intending to get that).

shegar

I wouldnt pi** on a beko if it was on fire, total carp, ive only ever owned one appliance from beko and that was a electric cooker quite a few year ago , which when used for the first time the glass inner door shattered in to a millions pieces, beko didnt even bother geting back to me ............False economy buying cheap to save money thats my opinion.........

Cooker_expert

Kitchen_DesignR wrote: »

Beko don't make large range cookers direct

The 1100mm is a Rangemaster
The SS or Black 900mm is Leisure.

They are part of the same company group Arcelik (be careful how you pronounce it)
Rangemaster don't have a bad consumer reputation and Beko sell 20% of the Uk appliances.
It doesn't make them good but if you sell 20% of the market you get 20% of the problems.

I have a Beko product and it was good value and works extreme well

Sorry to resurect this old post but if this post comes up on a google search then someone will get some very bad information.

The 90 and 110 cookers are most certainly not from either the same manufacturers or even group.

The 90cm is a Beko in this country, it is exactly the same as any other beko 90cm apart from the cosmetics, its quite a poor appliance and not one that I would reccomend.

The 110 on the other hand IS a Rangemaster and is not part of the Arcelik/Beko group, it is part of the AGA-Rangemaster group and they are easily the best range cooker producers in their price range, light years ahead of anything that Beko produce.

Cooker_expert

Kitchen_DesignR wrote: »

Corrected my original post.....

Still incorrect, "if you sell 20% of appliances you get 20% of the problems"........ Beko wish their breakdown rate was similar to other manufacturers..... but it isnt, I would estimate they sell 20% but get closer to 40% of the problems, their breakdown rate compared to the likes of Rangemaster is horrendous, poorly built and much cheaper components, I was doing a major repairs contract for the last 4 years and as much as 50% of my insurance calls were beko products.

kwatt

Typical breakdown percentage on most low cost Turkish machines seems to be around the 12-15% mark per annum.

Chinese stuff, higher.

To put that into perspective so people can understand how bad it actually is, a typical European manufactured appliance you'd expect 8% or less over the same period on similar products.

On better built products, Miele, ISE etc, you're looking at about 5%... in five years, not a year. So, about 1% per annum or less.

Same old story, you get what you pay for.

K.