How to remove your oven door

The video below will show you how to take off and replace your oven door.

For most repairs we recommend that the door is removed. This will enable you to lay it flat on a table whilst you apply the glue, and allow the glue to cure. It will avoid the use of clamps trying to hold everything in place. Removing the door is usually quite simple, and is well worth the few minutes it will take.

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Removing the fascia (front) panel.

Once you have removed the door from the oven (see video above), you may need to remove the fascia panel so as to be able to access the brackets inside the door casing, or the internal glass. All ovens manufacturers differ, and they even differ between specific models. However most oven doors are made with a metal casing, which acts as the inner part of the door and contains the inner window, and a fascia panel, usually made of glass but may have metal decorative panels.

On most ovens the fascia glass is held in place either by brackets that are glued onto the inside face of the fascia glass, and so not visible from the outside, or by a combination of these brackets, typically at the bottom of the door and the handle at the top.

The brackets, that are glued to the inside of the fascia may then be screwed to the door casing, or use a hook and eye type arrangement. This allows for the fascia to be removed by unscrewing the brackets, or the handle, or both.

With the door removed have a good look around the edges of the door casing to see if there are any screws that are potentially holding a bracket inside the casing. Usually these will be at the bottom of the door, and so hidden when the door is in situ. Unscrew the brackets holding the bottom of the glass. It may then be possible to slip the glass from under a handle at the top of the door, and remove the glass. Alternatively the handle may screw through the glass at the top, and will need to be removed. A further alternative is that the top of the glass is also held in place with similar brackets glued to the inside face of the glass and screwed into place.

Some Fascias are held with brackets glued to the inside of the glass at the bottom, and by the handle at the top, as above, however the bracket at the bottom is not screwed to the casing of the door, and so no screws will be evident. Instead the brackets glued to the inside of the fascia glass hook over prongs on the casing, behind the glass. Effectively these prongs are a much larger version of the hook and eye fixing that you find on some clothing such as the waistband of some trousers. As before, the top of the glass may be slipped behind the handle, or have the handle screwed through it. To remove the fascia the handle is first removed, freeing the top of the glass, the glass is then lifted up, lifting the brackets glued onto the inside of the fascia, up, over the prongs. If there are no screws evident assume this method of fixing before moving on to the possibility of a spring catch, or the door being glued all around.

On a very few ovens the brackets are not screwed to the door casing. Instead they use a spring clip method (similar to a cupboard door catch), so the brackets on the rear of the fascia are pushed into place into the door carcass. Clearly there will be no screws in this case. Instead you have to very gently prise the glass up away from the casing so the brackets pop out of the cupboard door like latch. Needless to say you need to be extremely careful not to stress the glass, and be sure that this is the actual holding method.
Sometimes a torch aimed inside the loose inner glass door, down to the bottom of the door, will help you locate the position of any brackets.

There are a very small number of ovens where the front glass has been glued into place, but this is very rare.

Hopefully, your fascia plate will be relatively easily removed, they are in the vast majority of cases. In which case the repair is relatively simple and very successful. The removal of the door and the fascia can usually be completed in less than 10 minutes.