Opinions on Stoves/Belling Range Cookers?

I've got a contact who can get a significant discount on these cookers. Anybody got any opinions/experience of them?

Cheers

vegplot

I've always thought Belling were good. Simple but reliable.

dpack

belling always works strait from the skip Cool

good make imho

gil

I've got a Belling cooker (4 ring hob, the kind that's flat and glows when rings are on; double oven : one fan, one ordinary with grill). Which is OK, though oven temps not even. Hob rings packing up one by one now, but it is prolly about 20 years old.

Nearby parish hall had a Belling range cooker, which they liked, though it never got extensive use. Friend bought it from them when replaced, but hasn't installed for everyday domestic use yet.

sean

I thought that they seemed a bit style over substance when we were looking. We got a Britanniawhich I'm very happy with. Or get a proper commercial jobby from Nesbits or somewhere.

Fee

I'd have a Belling again in a flash, we were given one for our first house together by a friend, it had been his mothers many years before. Not a range one though, just normal, sounds like yours, gil.

Worked like a treat, at 25 years old, that's not bad. It was the same as my in-laws at the time too, which was at least 20 years old.

Better than the rubbish in our current kitchen, some in-built white plasticky junk that's falling to bits, literally.

Penny Outskirts

We have a stoves electric cooker, which I loathe, but it's very functional, and you can get reasonably priced spare parts for it. It's 10 years old, and the knobs were looking really bad, so I got a new set direct from Stoves which made it look like new again.

Fee

We've got knobs missing off ours, but I'm not going to replace them, because I jolly well want a new one! Laughing

If you're listening, Mr T, nudge, nudge...and I don't mind one out of a skip, it would likely be better than ours!

cab

The old electric belling hobs with old fashioned radiant rings were great. Ring pscks up, seal goes on the oven, or most other parts go and you just pop out the part and order a new one online, fixed in a jiffy. Eventually sufficient niggles will develop such that you want to replace it rather than keep repairing it, but not for a while.

Good at what they do; simple, easy, cheap.

The newer range... Well, you don't seem to see hobs like that any more, are radiant rings now a thing of the past?

Penny Outskirts

Fee wrote:

We've got knobs missing off ours, but I'm not going to replace them, because I jolly well want a new one! Laughing

I knew that wasn't going to happen Laughing

nettie

We've got a Belling Kensington range cooker with ceramic hobs, and love it, it's really easy and it's got a nice tall thin oven at the side with lots of shelves, great for drying stuff or roasting big batches of veg for the freezer.

Downsides are that the main oven is too small to put a big turkey in, and we have had a problem with the door coming off the grill if you pull it too hard, although with a bit of swearing we've always been able to clip it back on!

welsh lamb

I had a Stoves dual fuel for about 2 years which was fine - it replaced a Canon which was frankly pants.
Edit to read sorry just noticed range in title - mine was not

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