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My electric cooker has gone wrong. Do I just call an electrician or do I call some other kind of specialist?
Call a specialist appliance engineer. An electrician will not have the parts to do it and probably not the expertise.
MTFU and replace the element?
Level 1 Manliness was knowing it was not the element.
Google 'oven repairs near me?'
But, where do you live?
Have the model number and serial number ready when you phone the repairers. You'll find them on the rating plate, a little silver sticker/badge that's almost certainly around the main oven door aperture. Check for other numbers as well, Electrolux group have a PNC code, Bosch an FD.. number etc.
A good firm will ask you several questions before calling out to try and diagnose the fault. Having all the details as above will save them time and you money.
And be ready to price up a new oven. I was recently quoted £85 +vat call out including half an hour labour, then 45+vat per half hour and parts to fix two ignitions on gas cooker. "It'll take about an hour plus 20 i parts" he said "I'll be making do with matches." i said
Anything gas will be a lot of money to have repaired thanks to all the regulations associated with it.
I don't work with gas, only electric stuff as it's not economical to get set up for gas. We charge under half the prices quoted above.
EDIT: That said we do replace [u]electrical[/u] and [u]mechanical[/u] parts on gas appliances as long as it does no involve touching a single gas carrying component. Ignitors would normally be seperate from the gas lines themselves but then if you're getting quotes from a Gas Safe registered company they will charge Gas Safe registered prices regardless.
Level 1 Manliness was knowing it was not the element.
thermostat ? even easier DIY fix.
It does look like the overheat thermostat, It doesn't look easy, it's a built in and i think the stat is in the back somewhere