Fitting a cooker element

[Chiefy831]

I have a Belling fan assisted electric cooker with a ceramic hob. I need to replace the cooker element. Getting hold of a replacement element is the easy bit, how difficult is it to fit it or do I need an electrician?

 

[Softus]

It's very easy. Just undo enough screws and Robert's yer father's brother.

 

[Chiefy831]

Thanks for that Softus.

I am going to give it a go, nothing to loose as the oven doesn't work anyway. Will have a go at most things but not very confident with electrics.................. am I going to end up with a perm??? I take it all the electrical connections are through the back of the oven? Is there anything I need to look out for?

 

[rocks1]

depending on your model some you can get to though the oven take the trays out and have a look could be a round element at the back or on the side

 

[Softus]

Will have a go at most things but not very confident with electrics.................. am I going to end up with a perm?

Not if you isolate the cooker from its supply before touching it, and use a meter to test that it really has been isolated before you touch any wiring.

I take it all the electrical connections are through the back of the oven?

Correct.

Is there anything I need to look out for?

Um, your own flawed memory, if it's like anyone else's. Use either a camera or a notebook to record how each part is connected and/or affixed before you remove it.

 

[Chiefy831]

Thank you for your reply, will order element tonight and give it a go................. will just turn electric off completely to be on the safe side!!

 

[Softus]

will just turn electric off completely to be on the safe side!!

That isn't safe enough.

You need to test for the absence of a unsafe voltage. This covers all eventualities, like a faulty main isolator and reversed polarity at the incomer.

 

[Lesley Jones]

We recently had to change our oven element and were a bit daunted being hopeless at diy. I found a website on the internet after doing a brief search with blow by blow instructions (with pictures) of how to do the job. We removed the old element which a local supplier checked to make sure that it was dead before he sold us a replacement. £35.00 job done, and there was I thinking that I was going to get a new oven - or perhaps even a new kitchen!

http://www.ransomspares.co.uk/fan_element_article.html

Just make sure you turn off electricity before you start and have a second person to help. Dont drop a screw down the back of the oven just as you finish We did.