Recent content by Johnd1881

Hi all, Not sure if I'm in the right place but I'm in need of some help. I painted an external wall around 18 months ago. The wall is breeze block and rendered with sand/cement. The wall was painted with a thinned down white masonry paint as an undercoat and then it had 2 coats of vaspor...

One last thing. I noticed when replacing the element that there was a piece of what seems like foam between the element and the back oven wall. I presume this was like a cushion between the element in the back wall. Unfortunately this has perished so does it need replacing? See attached image...

Sorry for the delay, been flat out in work. Thanks for your pointers the oven is now up and running. In the end I had to swap the element but during the removing of the old one I accidentally knocked out one it the neutral cables. It all seems to be up and running and it only cost me £30...

Thanks for the reply. Made some progress. Managed to work out how to jack the unit up (found a manual on ManualsLIB.com) and got the cover off. I've replaced the element. However, the fan isn't turning. So I think it may be faulty or even the thermostat. What's your thinking?

Hi all, I'm in need of some help. I've gone to replace the main oven heating element in my cooker (which I've done on previous cookers). But it would seems one of the 3 wires (blue one) that connects to the element has fallen back through the hole. I've tried and tried to retrieve it but no...