Oven door exploded - who pays??

ConfusedofYorkshire

anotheruser wrote: »

Although both can be equally safe so long as you use the not-so-common-sense.

Electric hobs should be banned as they are not safe either.

Can I ask what makes them dangerous? I hate the things but unfortunately now have one. It'll be replaced when I do the kitchen. Is it just not knowing when it's hot or do they explode!?

anotheruser

Not knowing when they are hot/take a good while to cool down.
They are pretty old fashioned too I think. Other sorts of electric hobs (like induction) are much safer.

My cat burnt her paws when she stood on it. Before anyone says "well the cat shouldn't have been up there".... 1) you try telling her that 2) I was out of the room.

ConfusedofYorkshire

anotheruser wrote: »

Not knowing when they are hot/take a good while to cool down.
They are pretty old fashioned too I think. Other sorts of electric hobs (like induction) are much safer.

My cat burnt her paws when she stood on it. Before anyone says "well the cat shouldn't have been up there".... 1) you try telling her that 2) I was out of the room.

I wouldn't say that! Silly thing to say. Could easily happen to our cat. I can't wait to get rid of our electric hob. But the advantages are- it seems to make better rice, and the pan handles don't get hot!

ACG

I have no idea of the answer to this, but if i was a landlord and a tenant came and said the outer glass has exploded, i would be thinking they have knocked and broken it.

Im as soft as they come and so long as its a decent tenant, i would probably pay for most things but i would be in 2 minds about this and as you have not been there very long i would be inclined to think its the tenant at fault and not the cooker... but that is just what i would think.

G_M

Would it be safer if the cat walked on a hot or burning gas hob....

ConfusedofYorkshire

G_M wrote: »

Would it be safer if the cat walked on a hot or burning gas hob....

Most cats aren't stupid enough to go near fire. And gas hobs cool quicker than electric.

Also, electric Hobson are a smooth surface which cats would walk on- they don't tend to try to navigate a rough gas hob

Slinky

anotheruser wrote: »

Not knowing when they are hot/take a good while to cool down.
They are pretty old fashioned too I think. Other sorts of electric hobs (like induction) are much safer.

My cat burnt her paws when she stood on it. Before anyone says "well the cat shouldn't have been up there".... 1) you try telling her that 2) I was out of the room.

I love my electric hob, so much easier to clean than a gas hob. Mine has a light on which says when it's hot still. Fortunately our cat knows better than to get on the worktops.

dimbo61

For all the effort of writing letters to the Landlord and speaking to CAB or Shelter why not find the make, model and serial number and look on the Net or ebay.
Ring up the manufacturer and inform them what happened in a nice way.
We had a velux window shatter one morning on the inside glass, freezing cold outside with ice on outside glass, bright sunshine in the early morning then BANG.
Blind stopped glass flying everywhere, checked out cost on several websites then rang Velux who replaced all the glass in all our velux Windows free of charge.
Ask nice and they may provide at cost or free of charge new glass for oven door.

Slinky

dimbo61 wrote: »

For all the effort of writing letters to the Landlord and speaking to CAB or Shelter why not find the make, model and serial number and look on the Net or ebay.
Ring up the manufacturer and inform them what happened in a nice way.
We had a velux window shatter one morning on the inside glass, freezing cold outside with ice on outside glass, bright sunshine in the early morning then BANG.
Blind stopped glass flying everywhere, checked out cost on several websites then rang Velux who replaced all the glass in all our velux Windows free of charge.
Ask nice and they may provide at cost or free of charge new glass for oven door.

Thanks for that, it's cheered my up no end. I spend most of my working day sat below a Velux window!

Pandilex

I am now terrified my oven door is going to explode