Am I liable for the cooker exploding?

GEKKO135

Hi

About 20 mins ago my cooker door shattered, glass everywhere and the door pretty buckled. It was half way through cooking a chicken and I was out in the sitting room when it happened. I've only been living here 2 weeks and this had to happen!

I'm just wondering whether i'm in any way liable for the damage? I haven't signed any lease or anything btw. What should I say to the landlord?

Thanks a mil

the_syco

Is it a gas cooker? If so, turn off the gas (all of it).

GEKKO135

no it's not, but switched off everything the second it happened.

meercat

GEKKO135 wrote: »

Hi

. What should I say to the landlord?

Thanks a mil

exactly what you said here

silja

What a shock! Hope you are ok!
Unless you did something weird with the chicken, you are in no way liable. Major kitchen appliances like this are the landlords responsibility to fix (or get a new one, in this case). Though some landlords may give you a price point and tell you to go buy a new cooker and deduct it from next month's rent.

Trix

the exact same thing happened to me a few weeks after i moved into my apartment. the thermostat on the oven was broken so the oven just kept getting hotter and hotter until ka boom!! the land lady replaced the oven within a few days. i don't see how it would be your problem. cookers break and the landlord should be glad you didn't end up with a face full of glass.

Gandalph

Your suppose to kill the chicken 1st before putting it in the oven so it doesnt break out like that

Ray Palmer

You are not liable. This could happen to any appliance and very hard for a LL to know about a fault like this.

A tenant removed the weights in a washing machine. The new tenant thought I was messing them about but when I had a look at the machine you could see somebody removed the weights. No idea if it was the tenant there are one before.

I don't know what the point of it truly was but it is not uncommon for a tenant leaving to damage something hidden even if it puts the next tenant in danger.

Milk & Honey

Who owned the chicken?

hmmm

You're in a rented apartment, you simply ask your landlord to replace the cooker.

It'd perhaps be different if you were cooking explosives in an oven, but cooking chickens in an oven wouldn't be seen as too extraordinary

testicle

hmmm wrote: »

It'd perhaps be different if you were cooking explosives in an oven, but cooking chickens in an oven wouldn't be seen as too extraordinary

Maybe he was cooking explosive chickens?

listermint

Ray Palmer wrote: »

You are not liable. This could happen to any appliance and very hard for a LL to know about a fault like this.

A tenant removed the weights in a washing machine. The new tenant thought I was messing them about but when I had a look at the machine you could see somebody removed the weights. No idea if it was the tenant there are one before.

I don't know what the point of it truly was but it is not uncommon for a tenant leaving to damage something hidden even if it puts the next tenant in danger.

Perhaps they were sitting on top of the washing machine, if you know what i mean......

astrofool

Had this happen to me, the thermostat is gone, and in the fan oven, it's under pressure + the heat build up, causes it to shatter.

Glass replace and thermostat replace should cost no more than €150 (for the landlord to pay), there's lots of companies that specialise in doing it.

GEKKO135

Thanks for the responses!

The chicken a was a premium Marks & Spencers one and was in a mushroom sauce with a bit of bacon...I don't think that's too dangerous a mix.

Landlord seems willing to fix it but was slightly suspicious that I may have done it myself. Reasonable response to be honest but thankfully it'll be sorted.

Thanks

Gekko

the groutch

make sure the landlord re-imburses you for the chicken too, after all it wasnt just any chicken

Victor

Do not eat the chicken, not only might it be undercooked, but it may also contain glass.

mikemac

You were cooking crystal meth, weren't you OP

Garda drug squad will be at your front door shortly

smelltheglove

Thats mad, last house I lived in the hob exploded on me whilst cooking when there 2 weeks, I ended up full of bolognese and had to call bord gais out as the buttons came off and I didnt know if the hob was off or leaking gas or what.

This house I was here a matter of days and the microwave went on fire on me.

I swear it isnt my cooking skills.

Glad its sorted OP

The_Conductor

Ok guys- I think this has run its course.......

FYI- if the metal shelf in an oven isn't fully pushed in and is touching the glass door when closed- its actually quite common to shatter the glass door.

Closed.