Another problem!

[Mups]

When is my luck going to change for the better ey?
 I am sure someone out there must be sticking pins in an effigy of me.   

Tonight, I put the oven on to warm up, and was half listening to my little TV in the kitchen while feeding  the dogs,  when all of a sudden it went very quiet,  and I realised the telly had gone off.

I changed the batteries in the remote,  but it was still 'dead.'   I began to wonder if it had the same problem as the front room telly when it died a few weeks ago.
I tried the radio for some company instead,  but that was dead as a dodo too.
Tried the front room telly - nothing.
Then I saw my landline, fridge and also the freezer had all gone off too.    Oh dear . . .   now what?

So there I was,  with dripping wet hair I had just washed and unable to use my dryer,  and no dinner to eat, and with the boiler gone off, no phone, and none of my household sockets working.

I decided to phone my Electrician,  but was worried what he would charge for an out-of-hours Sunday tea-time call-out,  but I couldn't leave myself with no power till Monday, especially with the fridge, freezer, and  boiler off.

The electrician came, bless him, put the trip switch in the circuit box back on, and checked nothing was tripping it off again.  Checked all the appliacances,  and everything seemed to work.   Most odd.

It wasn't till after he'd gone and I checked the oven again,  that I saw it was not heating up properly.  
It was only 'warm-ish'  instead of hot,  and it wouldn't get up to temperature.   So I reckon something is wrong with my cooker, and that is probably what tripped the electrics off.    
I will ring him tomorrow and tell him,  and see what he thinks.

Now my dilemma is,  do I get an estimate  for mending the oven of a 12 yr old cooker,   or do I get another cooker?  
   
What would you do?

[Dextrous63]

I would see how much it will cost to repair.  

[klondike]

Seems unlikely to me that it tripped the electrics as ovens are on their own individual circuit. You need to check to see if it really is faulty before you pay somebody to check it. If it did there could be a bigger problem than just the cooker.

I'd say your first thing to worry about though is why you didn't think to check the consumer unit trip when all the sockets went dead. If you live alone you need to know about things like that.