Hubys Domestic Appliance Repairs & Servicing

Over icing in a chest freezer

Huby Appliance Repairs — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:19:59 +0000

A customers lid would not close on their chest freezer. Chest freezers are not frost free and should be regularly defrosted to prevent an excessive build up of ice . An excessive ice build up acts as an insulating layer and prevents the appliance working efficently and economically. Do not allow your appliance to get into this state

Cooker hood ventilation

Huby Appliance Repairs — Fri, 04 May 2012 12:44:14 +0000

We recently visited a customer who had had a new kitchen fitted and was having problems with the cooker hood extracting fumes and steam from her cooking. On furhter investigation it was found that the cooker hood ducting had not only been bent backwards in a u shape but had been crushed between the chimney and the wall.

Cooker hoods need unrestricted ducting runs with the minimum of smooth bends in the ducting to operate correctly

Gas Oven Burner Repair

Huby Appliance Repairs — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:23:35 +0000

You’re oven burner should look something like this when lit.
If it doesn’t maybe your appliance needs a engineer to service you gas oven or cooker

New Smeg FAB50 retro

Huby Appliance Repairs — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:57:32 +0000

Smeg has now added to its retro range of refrigeration the FAB50 fridge freezer which is frost free. The Smeg appliance is 800mm wide with a capacity of 484 litres. This fridge freezer is the largest in Smeg’s retro range.

Noisy Integrated Washing Machine

Huby Appliance Repairs — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 07:54:23 +0000

One of our engineers was recently called out to a reported fault of a noisy washing machine. The video shows the customers washing machine vibrating about quite badly , especially as it was integrated into a kitchen unit.

Noisy washer

As with many of the domestic appliances we visit whilst under a manufacturers guarantee, no fault was found with the appliance. In this particular case it was down to a simple installation issue. Integrated appliances generally have four adjustable legs in the base of the appliance that can be screwed in and out to level an appliance up. If these legs are unscrewed too far the appliance becomes unstable and wobbles about. This is exaggerated numerous times when the appliance is loaded and then when installed between units the noise becomes unbearable . A simple solution to this problem is too build the floor level up by securing a a raised section of floor ( you can use an off-cut of work top from the sink cutout for example) in the aperture where the integrated washing machine is to be installed. Now when installing the washing machine the legs do not have to be wound out so far and the appliance becomes much more stable and quite.

Many manufacturers use integrated washing machine. The appliance could be a Smeg appliance a LG steam washer dryer or even a Daewoo washing machine. Irrelevant of the make they are all prone to the same noise problem if they are not installed correctly.

A sub standard gas installation

Huby Appliance Repairs — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:53:17 +0000

One of the problems with not using a registered gas installer is that you can be left with a potentially dangerous situation.

Yesterday one of our engineers , on removing a customers oven came across the following situation

The flexible gas hose from the hob had been laid across the top hot surface of the built in oven. This could cause the gas hose to melt, perish and leak and cause a dangerous gas leak.

Huby Appliance Repairs — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:11:44 +0000

Natural Gas and LPG cookers and ranges need to be installed to the current legislation. Failure to have these appliances installed correctly and by a registered installer is both illegal and dangerous.

The photo above shows some LPG gas bottles connected in a dangerous manner, whats more they are also laid new an open drain.

The first Dyson Ball cylinder vacuum in a miniature

Huby Appliance Repairs — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:43:42 +0000

Dyson has launched its first lightweight cylinder vacuum with Ball technology for stable manoeuvring around the tightest corners. The miniature DC38 has been engineered for smaller homes while maintaining the performance of a large vacuum cleaner.
Sitting on a ball, DC38 is lightweight, manoeuvrable and has a low centre of gravity for negotiating tight turns and getting around furniture.
Coupled with a new central steering system, the machine is light to pull, without snagging on corners or the carpet pile. It is equipped with Dyson’s Radial Root Cyclone technology.
James Dyson commented on the launch of the new cleaner: “We thrive on engineering challenges, and our first Dyson Ball cylinder posed quite a few. Cramming over 100 components into the ball itself. Compressing the airways, concealing the motor and ducting and devising a new steering mechanism. We’ve miniaturised the technology to deliver our most manoeuvrable cylinder vacuum yet.”

We can repair Dyson vacuum cleaners plus many other makes in our workshop. For more information please call us on 01482 866660

Does your dishwasher need repairing ?

Huby Appliance Repairs — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:15:46 +0000

At Huby Domestic Appliances we can repair most makes of dishwasher, they may be freestanding , built in or integrated.

We can repair Bosch , Neff , Baumatic , Diplomat , Hygena , Haier , Fisher Paykel , Smeg , CDA , Kenwood , Rangemaster , Matsui , Dedietrich , Caple , Whirlpool , AEG and many more.

We carry stocks of many spare parts. In the cases were we do not have the spare part required to complete the repair on the initial visit we have access to many manufacturers genuine spare parts either directly or via their authorised suppliers for a speedy delivery of the spare part after it has been ordered (subject to availabilty).

If your dishwasher has broken down and you live in Beverley , Bridlington , Doncaster , Grimsby , Harrogate , Pocklington , Pontefract , Scarborough , Scunthorpe , York or any of the surrounding villages to these towns please call us on 01482 866660 to arrange a service call.

We offer a fixed price labour fee which we will advise you of at the time of requesting a service call, the only additional items you will pay for are any spare parts, if any are required as in many cases they are not. If you are unsure at this stage if you will be going ahead with a repair and only require an estimate speak to our friendly team in our head office for details. Alternatively you can contact us us via our contact page

Frozen food in fridge

Huby Appliance Repairs — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:46:41 +0000

We received a complaint that the customers food was freezing intermittently in their fridge. Is there any wonder ?

All that was need to resolve the problem was advice which was given to the customer on the visit , no expensive parts and a happy customer