Oven Imploded: Just the right moment.

There's a vacuum between two pieces of glass on the door. I'm not saying it was the vacuum making glass fly out, but I suspect it was
 
Dr House said:
What year was that?
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Indesit took over Creda/Hotpoint in 2002 and then started buying cheaper parts around 2004. I would daily quarantine 100s of products in the warehouse for one reason or another but the Italians would let them go. Now products are made in Poland I wouldn't touch them.

And vacuum in an oven?
I never once saw anything floating in an oven :D
Perhaps it wasn't on my check sheet.
 
Just thought.
One test we did was using an adapted suitcase weighing scale that we put around the door handle and pulled.
I have a figure in my head that the pull had to be at least 5lbs because if not the door could swing open due to the heat in the oven giving a little bit of credence to the exploding theory (but only a bit).
 
If somehow the air inside the oven couldn't be replace, as the oven cools down there would be low pressure inside the oven (as air contracts as it cools). Therefore that could cause an implosion, especially if it was cheap glass - which from the sounds of it, it was.
 
OldCoals said:
Seriously, tile all the way back if you can. The amount of appliances we go to that can't be removed because they have been tiled in is frightening.
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Builders do this, we bought a new house about 10 years ago and our oven bust. Took ages to get it out all because the builder cut costs by not tiling to the wall.

In my current house we put the oak boards to the wall under the units.
 
Oven didn't explode or implode Glass just shattered under the heat and pressure of the hot air escaping because it was defective as said previously in this thread the gap in between the two pieces of Glass on the door is an air bubble rather than a Vacuum air is allowed to enter freely between the Glass panes.
 
OldCoals said:
Seriously, tile all the way back if you can. The amount of appliances we go to that can't be removed because they have been tiled in is frightening.
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Orionaut said:
I can well believe it. I also wonder why really important stuff like main stopcocks are inevitably located in inaccessible locations :(

Recently I had to help to remove an old washing machine from a friends house. The washing machine taps had seized solid and when I tried to turn off the main stopcock so I could replace them, that was seized too. I managed to turn it off eventually but it was a bit like James Herriot sticking his arm up a Cow! the stopcock was actually in a corner, in a bathroom unit behind the toilet and behind the soil pipe!

WTF are the builders thinking! :mad:
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The number of kitchens I've seem, where they have a leak, & the water has then got under the tiles & blown the plywood sub floor, could have been avoided if they had tile the whole floor.

Orionaut: Nothing surprises me now, seen it all, went to a job some years ago, stopcock was located in cupboard under the stairs, only problem was there was a 4" wall built in front of it,completely blocking access.
Ended up being a job from hell, have to relocate it.
 
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