Hi, I’m Rory from eSpares.
In this video I’m going to show you how to replace the thermostat in this electric
cooker. Now I’m using a Zanussi built-in cooker for this video, but the process will
be really similar for all domestic electric ovens.
Now this is your thermostat. The thermostat control sits behind the temperature knob.
This wire then runs round the back of the oven. And then this capillary tube is seated
at the top of the oven cavity.
Now how will you know if you’ve got a damaged thermostat. Well there’s three main signs:
The first is that the temperature on the oven is not reaching what you’ve set it to on
the temperature knob. Or the second sign is the temperature in the oven is always at maximum
no matter what you’ve got it set to. The last sign is if you’re not hearing the tell-tale
click when you turn the control knob then, yeah, it’s a sign that you’ll need to
replace the thermostat.
Now safety first, do make sure that your oven is switched off at the mains before you get
to work. There should be a switch in the general vicinity, or if you can’t see it, it could
be in one of the units, above, below or to the side of the cooker but do make sure it’s
switched off.
The thermostat is situated at the back of the cooker, so if you’ve got a built-in
one like this one, then you’ll need to remove it from its cavity. You can do this by removing
these fitting screws here, and then lifting the cooker out of its cavity and unplugging
the cables. Once you’ve got the oven in an open space with enough space to work on
it you can get started. And the first thing you’ll need to do is just remove the door.
Now on most oven doors, there will be a latch on either hinge, that when moved into the
open position will allow you to close the door up and lift it out.
So here we can see the thermostat’s capillary tube, which is situated at the top and back
of the oven cavity. You just need to un-clip it, like that. You can then move it round
and leave it hanging like that and we’ll get back to in a sec.
I now need to remove the back panel from the cooker. It’s held in place by torx screws.
You can get a torx set on the eSpares website, I’m just going to use a torx bit on the
end of a screwdriver. I just need to remove these two top panels as well.
Now I’ve spun the cooker around, you can see the wire feeding from the top of the cooker
round and into the oven cavity. So now I can just pull the capillary tube out of the cavity.
I now need to just remove this fixing bracket here, again, torx head screws holding it in
place. So here we are at the thermostat control. Now before I remove these wires there are
two things I need to do. The first is to mark one of these white wires with a pen. And the
second is just take a photo. This way when I come to put my new thermostat control in,
I can wire it in exactly the same way this one is wired.
Now I’ve done that I can remove the clips. I can then just remove the control knob from
the front, and now I can take these two screws out and remove the old thermostat control.
I can now get rid of the old thermostat, and put that to one side. And get my new one,
and I’m now going to do the exact opposite of what I’ve just done. Firstly I’m going
to fix it to the front control panel, rewire it, feed the wire through, put the capillary
tube back into the oven cavity and fix it all together.
Now all I need to do is put the panels and the door back onto the oven.
Don’t forget to put the latches down on the door when you are re-fitting it.
That’s how easy it is to fit a thermostat on an electric cooker. Before you get cooking
again, it’s best to give it a bit of a clean inside the oven cavity as there will probably
be a bit of debris from the work you have just done.
Thermostats for all make and model of cooker are available on the eSpares website.
Thanks for watching.