Our oven element in our Simpson electric stove/oven burned out last week. I don't know how old the stove/oven is but I'm guessing at least 20 years old. Any manual that came with the stove is long gone (we bought this house about 4 years ago).
One stove element (out of 4) has never worked in that time, and another one is very wonky but works ok. The other two elements are fine.
We live in a place that has very limited options for whitegoods repairers. We've got the one option coming next week to replace the oven element with, I quote, not the exact spare part but one that they can adapt to fit our oven, and they reckon there are no spare parts for the two stove elements.
At what point do we decide that this stove/oven is too old to maintain (ie spare parts no longer available) and buy a new one?
We do have natural gas connected to the house now, so we could in theory upgrade to gas. Or replace with another electric one. We likely have bonded asbestos in the kitchen walls and have no intention of doing a full renovation in the kitchen, so options are a bit limited.
Edit to add: have done some online searching for spare parts, but have had no luck in finding either stove or oven elements that I am confident would be compatible.