Freestanding stove

don1751, Jun 14, 3:32am
Need to buy a new cooker. Looking at a simpson. Are they a good brand? If not what do you reccomend.?

ryanm2, Jun 14, 3:35am
Yes, simpson are good and basic. Do you need fan bake? A lot of cheaper F&P, Simpson etc dont have this function.

cantabman1, Jun 14, 3:21pm
I suggest that you look to any brand other than Simpson.
Nothing wrong with Haier/F&P; at least you can get the parts locally.

don1751, Jun 14, 8:13pm
Now looking at a freestanding omega on special at harvey norman. Anyone had experience with these?

nilaveli, Jun 14, 8:49pm
We have been very happy with our indesit freestanding oven (I got gas cook top) had it 8 years now no problems.

budgel, Jun 14, 8:50pm
My Simpson has a fan bake/fan grill function. A good stove, but no snob appeal like the German ones.

sboydnz, Jun 14, 8:52pm
Disagree I'm afraid. Haier is Cheap Chinese rubbish, Elba is not far behind them, Westinghouse is on Par also, all cheap rubbish.

mlarkin, Jun 15, 6:15pm
See you are in Auckland - go to Appliance Shed nearest you and see several brands, plus talk to staff on their feedback. Don't touch anything Simpson or Haier. Capricorngirl

ang_ck, Jun 15, 6:35pm
Get a F&P stove. Spare parts are easy to come by.

sanders4, Jun 16, 12:45am
mlarkin needs to realise that our household installed only Simpson appliances about 13 years ago and all are still working well and local repair shop stocks all parts!

sanders4, Jun 16, 12:47am
Also just remembered that our F and P auto washer died twice due to common/generic faults so next washer was a Simpson that did 22 trouble free years.

janbodean, Jun 16, 1:37am
They would need to be. In my opinion they are absolutely awful and nothing like the earlier ones they put out. If I buy a property and it has F&P they are replaced immediately.

casswill, Jun 16, 2:54am
Unfortunately it appears for me that a Simpson y is a good oven. I've got one that must be at least 12 or so years old and I'm desperate for it to die so I can upgrade to a stainless steel ceramic top oven. Just can't justify replacing it when it still works perfectly well.

budgel, Jun 16, 4:27pm
My Simpson oven was installed around 2001 and is still going strong, with only one simmerstat needing replacing since then.

easygoer, Jun 18, 6:13am
Simpson parts are readily available, I know because I had to buy numerous parts to keep my stove going until I finally got shot of the heap of crap that it was, constant element and simmerstat failures which resulted in broken end panels from the continually removing them, I think any brand other than Simpson will be a bonus

macman26, Dec 12, 3:03pm
Problem is most of the brands use the same or similar brand of parts. Used to be able to get simerstats that lasted for years but not now.