24Hr Appliances Repair Services
James Tan B.Eng (UK) Dip Elec
How do you prolong and maintain your Oven lifespan
Beside troubleshooting and repairing your oven. It is equally important to learn and understand how to maintain the working life of your oven being one of the most important and expensive appliance in your kitchen!
Understanding your oven
First you have to understand the characteristic and functionality of your oven. This point has been grossly overlooked.
Understand and know all the functions of your oven
Very often users only stick to 1 or 2 of the functions of the oven they most familiar with. Thus neglecting some of the heating functions provided by the manufacturer.
For example, most of the ovens comes with 4 heating functions.
- Top heating
- Top Grill heating
- Convection fan heating
- Bottom heating
If 100% of the time you only use the top and bottom heating. You may have neglected to energized the Top Grill Heating. Over time (say 3-4 years) if the Top Grill Heating has been left unused, dormant. Sudden used of Top Heating Grill may trigger low insulation earth leakage (ELCB) tripping.
Therefore it is always good practice to use all the functions in your oven to energized the heating element – so as to speak “run in”.
Common good practice in Maintaining your Oven
Having good practice will also extend and prolong the lifespan of your oven definitely!
Oven at High Temperature
Running the oven at maximum temperature excessively. Although the ovens are designed to operate at the maximum temperature (typically 250C – 275C). Excessive will reduce the lifespan of the convection fan, thermostat and light bulb. Like to use the following example, even if your car top speed is rated at 240km/h you won’t drive up to that speed right?
Oven is not a food warmer or storage
Avoid using your oven as food storage or warmer. Cooked food produced a lot of steam and water. It will damage and cause rusting and corrosion to the oven inner surface wall.
Oven Internal Cooling System
Do you know most oven is equipped with a cooling fan. (Something like a car radiator fan). It helps the oven to cool down after and during operation. Is a good practice to keep the power on even after using the oven. So it can help cool down the oven and surrounding faster.
Cleaning your Oven
Do not clean our oven interior with corrosive or excessive wet solutions. 2 of the oven electrical components are exposed Top Heating Element and Convection fan blade. If these parts are exposed to water it will greatly reduce their functional life span.
Common Mistake to Avoid
1. Selector Functional Dial Jammed
If you feel the selector dial is very stiff – Don’t force it! You may break the stem, Try turning clockwise or anti clockwise
2. Door is jammed
Never force open the door. You will risk breaking the front glass panel or the door frame that resulted in higher repair cost. Call us!
3. Oven is producing a lot of smoke
First, turn off the mains. Observed where the fumes is coming from. If it is from inside the oven, Most likely is the debris from previous cooking. If the smoke and fumes is from the electrical compartment or back of the oven. Call us!
Brands of Appliances We Service
Over the years we have acquired extensive knowledge in repairing and solving your fridge issues. We have the spare parts readily available to get your fridge up and running again!
I called James on 20Sep24, describing my oven overheated and shut down. He asked me to send him the oven model and described to him how is my oven usage pattern. He advised me to perform a few checking over the next 2 days and upon completion, I was able to solve my oven issue. Very professional. Highly recommended.