Cheap electric oven

Salty22

Salty22

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My oven door just broke off halfway though baking a lasagne (nightmare lol).
Its an oven only, the hob is separate gas one built into the kitchen work surface above so looking to just swap for something the same so its a straight swap.
The current one has two sections, a larger top section and a smaller one below but weve literally never used the lower one once in ten years of living here, so might just get a single doored one.

The oven was already here when we moved in so ive never had to buy an oven for myself.
Having a quick look online and nearly all of the ones ive found are double ones with the hob included, not just a single door with no hob.
Sorry not sure of the technical names for the styles of ovens im describing lol.

https://www.tesco.com/direct/whirlp...n-stainless-steel/487-2893.prd?skuId=487-2893

Something similar to that would be good, any recommendations?
 
You might have an interesting time replacing that as unlike most built under ovens it goes all the way to the floor. If you install a normal built under oven then you will need to find a piece of plinth to go under it.

At a guess someone has installed what is supposed to be a built in high level oven under the counter which is probably a bad idea for air circulation and looks stupid!
 
a1ex2001 said:
You might have an interesting time replacing that as unlike most built under ovens it goes all the way to the floor. If you install a normal built under oven then you will need to find a piece of plinth to go under it.

At a guess someone has installed what is supposed to be a built in high level oven under the counter which is probably a bad idea for air circulation and looks stupid!
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Everything in this house was bodged when we moved in, the kitchen is the only room we havent totally redone.
Be a couple of years before i can afford to do what i want in there so just want to bodge another cheap single electric oven in there for now
 
Feel an idiot now, i never realised what the difference between an oven and a cooker is, now im looking at the right section theres plenty suitable.
Reason i wanted to get it from tesco direct is staff discount, clubcard vouchers and other money off vouchers lol
 
That double oven looks like the sort you have higher up like at eye level, not under the bench, it doesn't look like it has any room between the bottom and the floor!

Anyway as you have 2, I'd just tape up the knackered door and use the other oven. It's what I'd probably do as a temp (long term) fix. I'm not proud. :(
 
I've priced up a single oven and can get it for £135 (meant to be £200), so might just get it. Only thing it's quite small for the gap so I'll have to get something to put under it
 
Probably have to build a base under it, that old oven looks like it is standing on the floor.

Also single electric ovens, especially the cheaps ones, come with a normal 13amp plug so no need for an electrician to wire it in.
 
Current one is only on a 13a plug anyway, we had it out when we did the full rewire a full months ago.
Can you buy a pre made base for it? i didnt know if they cane with adjustable legs or anything
 
No the kitchen unit should support it but as that's a unit mounted double oven you will be replacing it will need a plinth under neath of it roughly 6-8 inches to support the new single oven, is shouldn't be hard to source some ply/chipboard to bulk out and make a plinth.
 
Salty22 said:
Current one is only on a 13a plug anyway, we had it out when we did the full rewire a full months ago.
Can you buy a pre made base for it? i didnt know if they cane with adjustable legs or anything
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The current oven you have should in NO WAY just have a 13A plug on it. ALL built in double ovens should have a 6mm twin and earth cable connected to a double pole 45A switch, which in turn has a 6mm twin and earth cable running back to the consumer unit to it's own 30A fuse. Any other way of wiring a double oven is illegal and has been for over 40 years. It's a good job you have never used the bottom oven, if you had tried using both ovens at the same time a fire is the most likely outcome.
When you change it for a built under single oven you will need to buy a built under single oven housing as well because obviously the one that was installed has been butchered to get the double oven in. Howdens would be a good bet for the housing, there's come with adjustable legs as well.
 
Salty22 said:
The bottom oven is only a grill
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Actually it's not just a grill. It's dual use, it can be used just as a grill or as an oven. If you look at the pic you posted it actually says "Lower Oven" below the function and temp knobs. If you look at the function knob for the lower oven it will give you the option of setting either a grill or oven function. If it was only a grill, you wouldn't have a function knob for the lower oven because you wouldn't need one.
That's why it should have a dedicated 30A supply, because you have the ability to have both ovens on at the same time. If all it has is a wire with a 13A plug on, it's illegal and very very dangerous. As a kitchen fitter, to me it looks like it was fitted by a DIY bodge it merchant who had no knowledge as to what they were doing. If it was in my house i'd remove it fast and live off of take aways until a proper built under oven was fitted by someone who knows what they are doing.
 
It will be easy enough to wire a 13amp socket onto the end of the 30amp cable if it has been wired in correctly. I did it myself a few years ago as the single oven I was replacing was hard wired in to it's own 30amp block in fuse box.
 
LeeUK said:
It will be easy enough to wire a 13amp socket onto the end of the 30amp cable if it has been wired in correctly. I did it myself a few years ago as the single oven I was replacing was hard wired in to it's own 30amp block in fuse box.
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God almighty, you peeps make me laugh. I bet you types will be the first to post on a forum about dodgy tradespeople if we did the same thing. I just absolutely wish that your home insurance company could trace you back from your post when you attempt to make a claim when something catches fire in your house (assuming you own it), would love to see your face when they tell you "computer says NO".
 
I had a look at what's actually going on with regard to my current oven, it's on its own isolator at the breakers, and plugged into a double socket under the counters which is isolated by a large cooker switch on the normal socket above the counters to the side of the kitchen. The oven is only a single oven with a grill underneath, the options for the grill are simply top/bottom/both heat, there's no oven on that bottom section like someone tried to tell me there is.
I had a full rewire done in April and it was fully tested and signed off so I know 100% it's been correctly installed now.
 
Fine then, ignore my advice............................move on and still be unsafe.
That's what happens when peeps ignore the obvious and just go for the cheapest and most stupid and dangerous option.

Why did you even ask for advice ?..............................................................................................when you had already decided on what you would not do anyway ?
 
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