Our Wall Oven Is Dead

[Calamity Kris]

The appliance repair guy was over today and declared our wall oven dead, unless we want to spend at least $500.00 to revive it.    {The sellers knew it was a problem and didn't squabble about giving us a $400.00 allowance towards replacing it.}  So now we need to replace it.  We are looking at a double convection unit with the microwave on top.  Does anyone here have any experience?  What can you tell us?  Wall oven units are new to us so we are completely uneducated.

 

Thanks,

[Chili Ron]

Howdy,

My folks were sold on a wall oven.

When it died my folks got a regular floor stove/oven and converted the wall

oven to nice storage space with little roller drawers.

Never missed the wall oven one bit.

Microwave right over the stove, part of the exhaust.

Works great.

ymmv.

Best

CR

 

[Assassin]

My wife loves her double convection oven, I like what comes out of it.

[Hoss Carpenter]

Calamity,  when we lived full time in an RV and bought a new 2004 Monaco Motor Home, it came with a convection oven. We knew nothing about it. My Wife took classes on it and also a lot of Internet reading. Bottom line; she loved it and it worked great.  Good luck.  Cheers,  Hoss C.

[Sedalia Dave]

Convection ovens have a learning curve. Take the time to learn how to use one and they are great.

 

Stay away from 2 in 1 appliances. If one or the other fails you have to replace everything. Better to buy the microwave as a separate appliance and just have it mounted above the double oven.

[Pat Riot]

I would look at an Industrial Liquidators type business for the replacement Kris. Many Developers and Contractors buy a number of these for a project them sell the unused ones at a loss and you can pick them up fairly cheap. 

 

Try Craigslist in your area 

[Calamity Kris]

11 hours ago, Chili Ron said:

Howdy,

My folks were sold on a wall oven.

When it died my folks got a regular floor stove/oven and converted the wall

oven to nice storage space with little roller drawers.

Never missed the wall oven one bit.

Microwave right over the stove, part of the exhaust.

Works great.

ymmv.

Best

CR

 

 

I would love to do that.  Unfortunately, the cook top is on the island in the middle of the kitchen.  To make all of the necessary changes to the kitchen to be able to install a range would be ridiculously expensive.  We need to live with what we have for now.

 

Side note: the appliance repair guy just called.  The parts are no longer available on the oven so it's officially dead.  {Heavy sigh}

[Sedalia Dave]

2 hours ago, Calamity Kris said:

 

I would love to do that.  Unfortunately, the cook top is on the island in the middle of the kitchen.  To make all of the necessary changes to the kitchen to be able to install a range would be ridiculously expensive.  We need to live with what we have for now.

 

Side note: the appliance repair guy just called.  The parts are no longer available on the oven so it's officially dead.  {Heavy sigh}

 

Something you might try. Our local Independent appliance dealer / repair shop was able to send the control board for our wall oven out and have it repaired. Cost me a couple of hundred dollars but was way cheaper than a new oven.

 

My wife actually loves her wall oven because you do not have to bend over to use it. We actually have 3 ovens in the kitchen. The original wall oven is electric and is mounted so the bottom is waist high. The original all electric stove we replaced with a combination unit. It has a gas cooktop and 2 electric ovens The upper one is small, about the size of a broiler drawer and is perfect for pies and cookies. The lower oven is a conventional/convection. We use it for items too large for the wall oven or when we need the extra cooking space.

We bought the new stove in like new condition at a Swap meet for about 1/10th the cost of new.

[Calico Mary]

I gots a better ideer Kris....jus tell Uno ta take ya out fer dinner every nite....problem solved....

[Ramblin Gambler]

When our old analog wall oven went out we started looking around for a replacement.  Wife didn't like any of them new fangled ovens, so we paid the service fella to come out and fix ours.  It's going to be a sad day in our household when that oven finally gives up the ghost.  The only thing she found that she woulda accepted was so expensive that I just got a little vertigo trying to remember the price. 

[Irish Pat]

My wife said she doesn’t want a kitchen in our next house

[Shootin' Shu]

While our range was down waiting for parts.. We got one of THESE rarely do we use the oven this does everything!!

[J.D. Daily]

The parts that typically fail in today's appliances are the circuit boards & control panels.  What will make them un-repairable is when the mfg. quits remanufacturing them.  However, there are some independent businesses that remanufacture appliance circuit boards.  The most common failures are the relays soldered onto the printed circuit boards.  Actually one of the engineering trade publications I used to read had a column called "Designed by Idiots" home appliances with digital electronic controls & automobiles are the most common products designed by idiots.  To save mfg. cost the electronics replaced the traditional "Bullet Proof) electro-mechanical timer.  The engineers are driven to wring every fraction of a penny out of the product that will not increase their warranty costs to  unacceptable levels.  The typical circuit failure is the power switching relays that are soldered on the PC board(s).  These relays switch motors, resistance heating elements and magnetron power supply in microwave ovens.  They also don't select the relays to have a million cycle design life.  Also, in dishwashers & washing machines you have water, saturated water vapor  and soap which is hard on electrical & electronic components.

[Calamity Kris]

This oven had seen some I'll call it, above typical wear.  There had been a fire in it.  The glass in the door is almost opaque.  We were told by the home inspector the broiler didn't work.  I wanted to have the oven checked before I tried to use it, hence the clinical "dead" diagnosis.  I was able to get it to heat today.  At a setting of 350, it registered 300 and at a setting of 250 it registered 185 using a commercial oven thermometer.  Too far off for me to want to mess with it.  I also fear another fire if the wiring happens to have been damaged.  Uno finally believes it's dead so now the process of replacing it begins.

 

Note: I did see that manufacturers like Whirlpool and KitchenAid do make single wall ovens that have separate, coordinating built in microwaves.  This option sounds like a much better idea than an all-in-one unit.

 

Thanks for the great advice.