Safely removing gas oven from wall, and what is this part of my oven?!

Participant · 16 Jan 2014 at 20:46

Couple of questions...

1. My fan oven has stopped heating up. It's definitely the element as I've taken the cover plate off in the oven and there's a big bulge in one part of it. However the wonderful Electrolux has seen fit to make one of the three screws accessible from inside the oven, and two of them accessible only from the rear:

Rage etc.

Therefore I need to safely remove the oven from the wall. I've isolated the mains, but how do I safely deal with the gas pipe?

2. What is this compartment in my oven? My wife and I think this is one of three things: a proofing drawer, a warmer drawer, or a useless space not intended to be anything in particular.

Any advance on warmer drawer?!

Many thanks.

Nightglow · 16 Jan 2014 at 21:07

Pan drawer, somewhere to kept you baking trays & pans.

Gas feed connection should be a bayonet type, push the knurled ring into the fitting and twist anti clockwise,it's self sealing, hose is about a 1metre long.

Gas, + electric element = :confused:

Danthus · 16 Jan 2014 at 21:12

You don't need to touch the gas feed, leave it connected.

Participant · 16 Jan 2014 at 21:19

Nightglow said:
Pan drawer, somewhere to kept you trays & pans.

Ah-ha!

Nightglow said:
Gas feed connection should be a bayonet type, push the knurled ring into the fitting and twist anti clockwise,it's self sealing.

OK thanks. If I need to remove it I'll bear that in mind.

Nightglow said:
Gas, + electric element =

Really? This is only like the second oven I've owned, is it not quite common to have electric main oven and gas hobs?

OldCoals said:
You don't need to touch the gas feed, leave it connected.

OK? Great. I was assuming there wouldn't be too much slack.

Anyway thanks for the replies. Here's a photo of the broken element for what it's worth:

Why oh why couldn't they have made the screws accessible from the front.

Is it going to be hard to access from the back do you reckon? I just had a go at pulling it out from the wall and failed miserably. There's just nowhere to grasp that won't break something, and it's rather heavy

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Danthus · 16 Jan 2014 at 21:24

There will be a panel on the back, you will just unscrew it. There will be two 7mm nuts holding the element in.

Put some Fairy Liquid down in front of the feet to help it slide.

Nightglow · 16 Jan 2014 at 21:24

Got a model number for the cooker.

It had to slide in, or did they fit it first, then fit the units around it?

There is no bracket at the back at floor level fixing it to wall, spent hours trying to remove cooker years ago, apparently it was to stop it tilting forward. :mad:

From the picture on google it's just slide in, need two of you to lift it/ slide it out.

Only other thing is to take out a kitchen unit if possible to the side, if it won't budge.

Participant · 16 Jan 2014 at 21:27

Model number is EKM90310X, product code is 941309772. Not sure how they fitted it, it was in the house when we bought it. It's very snug against the kitchen units either side, but I can get it to move slightly.

The fairy liquid idea is genius, I'll give that a try thanks!

Danthus · 16 Jan 2014 at 21:28

It will slide out, you just have to be brave.

arknor · 16 Jan 2014 at 23:28

Nightglow said:
Pan drawer, somewhere to kept you baking trays & pans.

Gas feed connection should be a bayonet type, push the knurled ring into the fitting and twist anti clockwise,it's self sealing, hose is about a 1metre long.

Gas, + electric element =

electric ovens are better fact

Haggisman · 17 Jan 2014 at 09:35

Cardboard box under the feet as well, will help it slide (also good for washing machines

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Nightglow · 17 Jan 2014 at 10:24

arknor said:
electric ovens are better fact

Dawn on me when I had model number, it was a multi fuel cooker.

Fourstar · 17 Jan 2014 at 11:12

Nightglow said:
There is no bracket at the back at floor level fixing it to wall, spent hours trying to remove cooker years ago, apparently it was to stop it tilting forward.

Do you mean "a" rather than "no"?

If there isn't a ground level bracket there should be a clip on chain you can access once the cooker is pulled forward slightly. Like this:

Nightglow · 17 Jan 2014 at 11:29

Fourstar said:
Do you mean "a" rather than "no"?

My bad grammar.

A friend had bought a house, cooker was being replaced, the bracket was diy bodge by the previous owner.

Did another one a few years ago, two of us couldn't move a electric range oven, it wouldn't move, got a few more mates, it still didn't move, after a bit of investigation, I found previous owner had floor tiles laid in the past , & the feet of the cooker had been set in leveling compound. :mad:

Participant · 17 Jan 2014 at 11:46

Yep, my oven has one of those clips. It's a chain near the top like Fourstar posted.

Fourstar · 17 Jan 2014 at 11:56

Nightglow said:
I found previous owner had floor tiles laid in the past , & the feet of the cooker had been set in leveling compound.

Don't know whether to laugh or cry!

arknor · 17 Jan 2014 at 12:21

Nightglow said:
the feet of the cooker had been set in leveling compound.

LOL

once had lino laid in a kitchen , the guys said don't bother moving the washing machine wait until we put the leveling compound down and it's dried. (some weird liquid stuff that dried like a coating of rubber?)

they came back the next morning after we had moved the washing machine and moaned it had gauged huge lines of the compound out when we moved it.....