Save Money by DIY'ing Your Oven Element Repair

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If you're anything like me, when something breaks, the furthest thing from your mind is trying to fix it... but it saves so much money it's a good thing to have some handy skills. Save Money by DIY'ing Your Oven Element Repair, instead of calling your go to handy man, keep this article on hand to quickly trouble shoot the problem all by yourself. And even for the technically challenged, I promise it's not that scary, you'll be on your way to a fixed oven in no time at all.

The person who wrote this instructions article said that when his wife was cooking one night, suddenly the oven element broke, and when they called someone to come fix it, the total bill was going to cost them up to 300 dollars! Yikes! Now since nobody wants to throw around an extra few hundred dollars, it's best you learn how to fix things yourself. Especially something as easy as this. This step by step do it yourself article is incredibly short, and that's because it's an easy fix. Even though you might think it's all complicated requiring a lot of experience and some sort of special tools or supplies, the reality is that all you need is a bit of common sense. The best thing is that do it yourself projects can save you a lot of money, and it's also gratifying to do something like this on your own.

When your oven element goes you will know it. You might be cooking something, and all of a sudden the bottom element catches fire and it will start to spark. Then the oven won't work when you try to turn it back on again. If you already have an element, this do it yourself job shouldn't take you more than twenty minutes. It always helps to have an extra one of these on hand, you definitely don't want your element to go when you are in the middle of cooking a holiday dinner, it would cost you a small fortune to get a repairman to come to fix it then. After you make sure that the power for the oven is shut off, you can remove the two screws that hold the element in place, and pull out the burner and disconnect the wires. Just pop in the new burner, screw it into place and that it. Put the power back on, and switch on the stove, it's that easy.

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