Electrical fault cooker

[sophie h]

Looking for some advice please. I have lived in my property for almost 7 years now. Since living here every 6 months my heating element blows in my fan oven. I have purchased 3 new cookers since living here all different models. Instead of replacing the oven I started getting the element fixed purchasing directly from the oven manufacturer and getting an electrician in.
I live in a council property and the council have been out to ‘check’ my electricals and said they’re isn’t a fault anywhere they can find. It trips all of my electrics when it goes, my lights occasionally also trips the electrics out and my plug sockets.
Surely there is a fault somewhere?
Thankyou in advance

 

[James]

I am making some assumptions here so bear with me.

assumptions,
1. You are houseproud and like to keep a clean oven
2. It is a fan oven
3. you prefer to use a spray on oven cleaner or even an aerosol
4. you make sure that you spray the back of the oven well so all the grime "melts off"

This is what MAY BE HAPPENING

When you spray the back of the oven, you are spraying a caustic cleaner (similar to acidic but not quite the same) some of it goes through the circular vent holes in the middle of the oven.

when that happens, some of it drips on the fan and the fan element, many oven cleaners will eat through the outer case of a heater element as they are not designed to be in contact with caustic cleaners.

the cleaners remain caustic even when dry and as soon as a small amount of moisture is let into the oven, the caustic cleaner will become active again and start eating away at the elements outer case.

unfortunately, the best way to avoid this is simply to avoid the "spray on wonder clean products" especially at the rear of the oven and use a non aggressive cleaner like washing up liquid and some harder scrubbing.