Hello. My oven seems to take forever to cook things and when opening the door, most of the heat seems to be coming from the top, am I right assuming the bottom element needs replacing? Also, one of the stove elements always heats to the max instead of being able to be adjusted as normal. Any rough ideas of how much $$ these issues will cost me to fix or get a sparky in to do it?
Cheers
trade4us2,
Feb 26, 2:28pm
That happened to my stove. I bought another working stove on TM for $37 and sold the old one for $23 to a guy who does up stoves.
kaydee16,
Feb 26, 2:40pm
Your stove element problem is probably to do with needing new simmerstat. I got 2 recently which cost around $150 all up (installed by electrician). $70 of that was actual cost of simmerstats.
firefly001,
Feb 26, 5:57pm
Well I bought a second hand oven. It needed two new oven elements and two new simmerstats cost about $400 incl mileage etc. I thought it was worth it
usefulidiot,
Feb 26, 6:07pm
Thanks people. Rough ballpark figure of around $250 by my reckoning.
lythande1,
Feb 26, 7:59pm
$250 for a bottom element?! I doubt it, you can buy these from the appliance parts place in your area. never cost me more than $50 for a part.
carter19,
Feb 27, 1:15am
My new oven element was $110 from Appliance World in Glen Innes. This was nearly $300 cheaper than the quote from the authorised repairer. Watched you tube to see how it was done.
solarboy,
Feb 27, 1:47am
I had a 'bottom element not working' prob. decades ago that turned out to be a spade terminated wire had come off at the element so I squeezed the terminal slightly with lineman's pliers, re-fitted it, sorted. Slowest part was removing and refitting all the rear cover screws. $0-00
pamow69,
Feb 27, 5:53am
You were ripped off.
pamow69,
Feb 27, 5:54am
You were ripped off too.
pamow69,
Feb 27, 6:01am
OP what make is the oven? I can give you a better idea of price when I know which type of element. The simmerstat switches for the top elements are easy & quick to change and should not cost more than $30 each. When you first turn oven on check with your hand to see if the floor of the oven is getting warm. It takes about a minute before you feel the warmth of the element coming through. As someone else above said it may be just a broken wire to that element. I repair ovens & stoves every day.
woodhouse_elect,
Feb 27, 12:52pm
pamow69 where do you purchase from? If you can email me through my listing it would be appreciated = F+ P and the wholesalers obviously charge more down here
kaydee16,
Feb 27, 2:38pm
Why is that tradies who come to your house are mostly morons who muck up the job, leave a big mess and rip you off, whereas when that same tradie replies to questions on here, he's suddenly an absolute top-of-the-range expert who knows everything and would have done a superior job at half the price, if only you'd given him the chance (yeah right!).
pamow69,
Mar 1, 5:27am
Firstly, I am not the same tradie who came & mucked up your job, left a mess & ripped you off. I live in Auckland. So don't say I am. Secondly, the reason dumb people like you allow themselves to get ripped off is because you don't bother to ask around for the best price. You willingly paid this rip off tradesman $80 for approx. 20 minutes work. The simmerstat switch can be sourced and sold at a decent mark up for $30 each. You paid $35 each. So you were ripped off.
sboydnz,
Mar 1, 8:44pm
How can you make sweeping statements like " He's ripping you off" if the customer has paid $35 for an item that you charge $30 for?. You don't know the tradesman's circumstances. You also chipped at the labour rate, what do you say if the tradesman works on a wage and is 1 of 5, that the company employs, their labour rate is going to be higher because of Business overheads, premises, office staff, rent etc. You are a 1 man band that works from home, your overheads would be very low compared to the other company trying to run 5 electricians. Don't come on here blowing your trumpet of how cheap you are and how better you are than other Tradespeople. Self Praise is no recommendation in my book. Try employing 5 staff ( like I do ) and see how you get on.
sboydnz,
Mar 1, 8:54pm
Oh . I forgot. I'd like to know where you purchase from as well. One of my staff purchased 6 regulators (MP 101) on Friday, from a reputable Wholesaler, Invoice states $32.72 (plus GST) as the Trade price. How can, you say, the customer was ripped off? I would suggest that if you are purchasing under that price it would be a copied Chinese brand that will last 5 minutes. I'd also say that you need to up your game and stop purchasing Cheap imported rubbish and support the local market, it might cost a little bit more but local products are better made, tend to last a lot longer and you are keeping a fellow New Zealander in a job.
johotech,
Mar 1, 9:09pm
You're spinning a story simply from your own imagination right there.
Just because you have limited your suppliers to a few "wholesalers", doesn't mean other people are buying "cheap imported rubbish".
Electrical wholesalers are invariably NOT the cheapest place to buy things like elements or simmerstats etc because they are such a small turnover compared to their main product lines.
Get off your backside and do some research about specialist appliance parts wholesalers. Genuine Electrolux MP101s are available for less than $25 + GST.
sboydnz,
Mar 1, 9:37pm
1stly, I wasn't addressing you with my reply but, as usual you have poked your nose in, I will answer you. You are correct in your comment about specialist parts wholesalers, but you haven't named them, which would make your point valid. I admit that most of my Companies work load is larger type jobs but, we do offer a smaller repair job service. Stove repairs is not exactly rocket science so our employees do repairs in that area, we do not have time to phone every merchant in the Auckland area to source the cheapest price so, Yes, I will admit there are probably cheaper places to purchase them. Now if a Larger company was to do that, as you would probably know, it cost money for someone to do all the phoning around, increasing the cost of doing the job, someone has to pay,hence, its far more economical to buy from a normal wholesaler after all one is only arguing about $5 in this instant. So Mr Jon, no one is spinning a story. For such a advisory type of person that you are, I would have thought that it would be common sense. May be not!
johotech,
Mar 1, 10:30pm
I poked my nose in because of your misinformed implication in your comments that Pamow was supplying substandard parts, just because he pays less than your example. As you know, he/they provide a lot of useful information for free on here to lots of people, so I would expect that the service from their business would be just as good.
If you are in the business of offering a smaller repair job service, then it's up to you to have suppliers that can provide the parts at a good price arranged in advance - not ringing around every time you need a simmerstat. Surely you would carry at least a couple in stock as well? Or are you charging a customer for the time to drive to a supplier and pick one up?
I would be lucky if I repair 3-4 ovens a year, but I carry about 3 simmerstats, some high temp wire and some spade terminals with me. That takes care of about half of the oven faults I come across.
As for advice on suppliers, I did actually inadvertently mention one name in my post. Appliance Parts. They have a branch in Akl. http://www.applianceparts.co.nz/
johotech,
Mar 1, 10:33pm
And as for only talking about a $5 difference in the parts cost, well that might be true for a simmerstat, but what I have found is that general electrical wholesalers can be around double the price on things like oven elements, or even hob elements. So it is well worth doing your research into your suppliers.
pamow69,
Mar 1, 11:11pm
Thank you johotech for your support & understanding. Like you pointed out I come on here to offer people good advice and help them out. It is not nice to be thanked for that by posters accusing me of blowing my own trumpet and saying how good I am and also accuse me of using cheap inferior parts. My parts are cheap for one reason only. I wish to offer my customers the best service at the cheapest possible price because I see them so often getting ripped off some of the larger companies who just look at the customers as cash cows who they can bleed dry because they desperately need their oven or washing machine fixed. So I have taken the time to source parts from different suppliers in order to get the best price I can. Yes I too get mine from Electrolux who do not sell cheap chinese copies.I do not ever come on here saying use me or saying how good I am or how much better than everyone else I am. All I am trying to do is tell people there are alternatives out there. If I can give a lower price then so should others. I accept that some will have more overheads but that doesn't mean they can triple the price. Take some time & phone around check prices & check feed back from customers on here or on nocowboys site. Get yourself the best deal possible and don't just pay the first cowboy that comes along demanding huge amounts of cash for half an hours work.
killy1,
Mar 6, 10:23pm
Everybody sells chinese made spare parts, Electrolux Home Products included. However in most cases the chinese part is superier to its Austrailian or European counterpart.
extrayda,
Mar 8, 6:11pm
Slightly off topic, but do any of the repair guys know where I can source a light switch for a Samsung side by side fridge freezer. Light switch on the fridge side. Fridge model is SRS584DP. I can get the exact part number if needed. I did get one in from a local company (west auckland) who said that it was hard to get the parts. They got me the wrong switch (freezer one) which I then returned. They have mucked me about for so long I have given up with them. Just want the part as it's easy to fit. Sorry to hijack thread!
pamow69,
Apr 25, 5:54am
Phone Samsung spare parts/ They have a Samsung building in Albany. I think it is airborne Road but not sure. Look up the phone number.I get parts from there.
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