Range cooker faults common to all brands
The behaviours that are the same whoever made your range cooker, and the one thing worth knowing before you look up anything: on most of these appliances only the induction hob can show a code at all. The ovens usually cannot.
This page is not Smeg's pyrolytic table, the Glen Dimplex set under Stoves, Belling and New World, or the documented absences on AGA, Falcon and Leisure. Those hubs carry what each manufacturer actually printed. A character on a range cooker display is almost always a hob code or a timer; hunting for an oven code table is how an afternoon disappears.
An oven that will not heat is usually a flashing clock or a programmer left in Auto. Dual-fuel cookers are two trades: the gas side is Gas Safe work in Great Britain, and the electrical side is a hardwired cooker circuit with no plug. If you can smell gas, leave and ring the emergency line. If the cooker trips the breaker twice, leave that circuit off and call an electrician.
Named-brand hubs in this category: Smeg, Belling, Stoves, AGA, Leisure, Falcon and New World. Those pages carry the manufacturer’s own table; this one does not replace them.
How these displays appear
Where a range cooker has a display, it is nearly always the induction hob, and the codes appear in the zone displays rather than on a central panel. Ovens on these cookers are generally controlled by a mechanical thermostat and a timer, and across every brand researched not one publishes an oven code table. The gas side publishes nothing anywhere. So if you are looking at a character on a range cooker display, it is almost certainly a hob code, a hob status character such as H or P, or the timer telling you something.
What a reset actually does
There is no single reset for a range cooker, and the manufacturers give three different answers. Glen Dimplex say to switch the appliance off at the wall for a few minutes to let the electronics reset. Leisure are more specific and say to disconnect at the circuit breaker, wait twenty seconds and reconnect. Smeg publish a five-minute wait for one particular code. Note that all three describe a wall switch or a breaker rather than a plug, because an electric or dual fuel range cooker is hardwired to a cooker circuit. The exception is the all-gas range cooker: Belling publish that theirs are 13 amp rated and supplied with a cable and a three-pin plug, so on one of those the plug is real and may be pulled.
Most common shared range cookers faults
The range cooker displays people look up most, whichever badge is on the appliance.
- Oven will not turn onUsually simple to fixOn most range cookers the ovens will not heat until the clock has been set, and the timer has to be in manual mode. Three manufacturers publish this themselves.
- HUsually simple to fixH on a zone display means the glass above it is still hot enough to burn you. It is a warning rather than a fault, and every brand sets its threshold differently.
- Cooling fan runs on after cookingUsually simple to fixA range cooker fan that keeps running for up to an hour after cooking is designed behaviour, and the maker of Stoves and Belling tells you not to switch the cooker off to stop it.
- Gas oven goes out after a minuteGet it checkedA gas oven that lights and then shuts down within a minute is usually the flame supervision device, and three manufacturers publish the same sixty-second answer.
Every shared range cooker fault
6 published shared pages. Filtering happens in the page — every one is in the HTML.
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Range cookers these pages cover
These pages apply across types. The split is by how the appliance is built, not by badge.