Oven Advice

redundantmortgage

We have an electric oven and gas hob which both came with the flat nearly 8 years ago and didn't strike me as being particularly new at the time.

Some time ago the inside glass in the oven door came loose but it still functioned OK. Then in the last couple of weeks I gather the element has gone because it's taking much longer to warm up and when putting food in for the allotted timed it's not cooked properly. As the ovens old anyway we thought we'd just buy a new oven instead of trying to repair the existing one.

We bought an oven from Curry's including fitting. Curry's say on their website that oven widths and depths are always the same, only the height varies. We measured the height and width of our oven and it was the same as the one we bought. We also measured the worktop above the oven to give us an idea of the depth and it was 60cm, the oven we bought had a depth of 56cm.

The installers came round and told us they can't fit the oven because there needs to be a gap of 2cm to the gas pipes, our gas pipes are 53cm from the front of the oven so the maximum depth we can have is 51cm which is the size of our current oven.

The problem is we cannot find an oven with a depth as small as 51cm. The manufacturer (Moffat) only seem to do commercial ovens these days. That doesn't give me much hope of being able to repair the one we have.

Additionally we are looking to sell in the not too distant future so don't want to be spending an arm and a leg getting a new oven that will stay in the flat once we sell it.

Any ideas?

Keep_pedalling

Get rid of the gas hob as well and replace it with an induction hob. We went from gas to induction when we moved a few months ago. As the main cook I found the change very easy and things seam to heat up just as fast as a gas hob. 

House_owner

redundantmortgage said:

We have an electric oven and gas hob which both came with the flat nearly 8 years ago and didn't strike me as being particularly new at the time.

Some time ago the inside glass in the oven door came loose but it still functioned OK. Then in the last couple of weeks I gather the element has gone because it's taking much longer to warm up and when putting food in for the allotted timed it's not cooked properly. As the ovens old anyway we thought we'd just buy a new oven instead of trying to repair the existing one.

We bought an oven from Curry's including fitting. Curry's say on their website that oven widths and depths are always the same, only the height varies. We measured the height and width of our oven and it was the same as the one we bought. We also measured the worktop above the oven to give us an idea of the depth and it was 60cm, the oven we bought had a depth of 56cm.

The installers came round and told us they can't fit the oven because there needs to be a gap of 2cm to the gas pipes, our gas pipes are 53cm from the front of the oven so the maximum depth we can have is 51cm which is the size of our current oven.

The problem is we cannot find an oven with a depth as small as 51cm. The manufacturer (Moffat) only seem to do commercial ovens these days. That doesn't give me much hope of being able to repair the one we have.

Additionally we are looking to sell in the not too distant future so don't want to be spending an arm and a leg getting a new oven that will stay in the flat once we sell it.

Any ideas?

I had this problem recently as well. Ended up paying a local Gas safe person £85 to move the Gas pipe, problem solved!

DullGreyGuy

https://www.rdo.co.uk/collections/electric-single-ovens

Use RDO to find ovens with an appropriate depth... they aren't the cheapest company to buy from but they have by far the best filters and do also sell top tier brands if you're interested in them

FreeBear

Keep_pedalling said:

Get rid of the gas hob as well and replace it with an induction hob. We went from gas to induction when we moved a few months ago. As the main cook I found the change very easy and things seam to heat up just as fast as a gas hob. 

I'm also a fan of induction hobs, and would choose one over a gas hob any day. But.... A decent induction hob needs a dedicated supply (often 32A, sometimes more). Whilst there are hobs available that will plug in to a 13A socket, you can't use all the heat zones at the same time.

If the OP doesn't have a dedicated cooker circuit, an induction hob is going to be costly to install. So I'd suggest contacting a Gas Safe registered engineer to take a look and see if the gas pipe can be moved to a safe distance.

redundantmortgage

Thank you. We were thinking of replacing our hob as well at some point because the igniter isn't working so we have to use a lighter so maybe now's the time to replace that too. We don't have any objection to an induction hob, particularly if it's the solution to our problem.

We do have a dedicated cooker circuit on our fusebox.

I see that website has just 2 ovens small enough, which is 2 more that I could find so thanks.

Another issue is we have waste pipes at the back of the oven which reduces the space we have. The depth of the oven we tried to buy is precisely the same measurement as the edge of the pipe to where the front edge of the oven would be. 

Do the oven sizes account for wiggle room at the back? and if not, would being up against the waste pipe be an issue?

I've found an online manual for our existing oven and it has the depth as being 555mm but the actual oven measures at 510mm.

This is our existing oven:

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/105436/Moffat-Mss-600.html?page=8#manual

This is the oven we tried to buy:

https://www.currys.co.uk/products/aeg-bsx23101xm-electric-oven-stainless-steel-10261434.html