Oven's coming back this afternoon!

This Rowenta oven of mine has seen some adventures, the latest of which was a trip to the repair shop. The episode began like this:

One fine day about 2 months back, my maid decided to open the oven only to discover that she couldn't close it anymore. Despite this, she continued to use the oven, relying on her own ingenuity of using the stone pestle and mortar to keep the glass door closed while the oven was in use. I finally decided to fix it when Mum tried to use it to.

One thing about Rowenta, they do not have onsite service. You bring the oven to them at Bedok South (somewhere near the expo) and pay $28 for assessment before any repair work starts.

I live in Bt Batok and I wasn't going to cart the oven in a taxi all the way there, so I called a 'freelance' repair shop - Rik. Rik sent 2 guys who opened up the oven cover and fixed the spring, all for $25 including transport.

End of story? Nope.

I tried to turn on the oven. Didn't work. Called Rik again, and after 2 missed appointments and numerous calls later, they came and took the oven away. They claimed that the oven was fine and the only problem was that it tripped their whole workshop when the timer hit 30mins. To repair this cost $95, including transport (down from $120). So they fixed the timer and the oven's coming back today! Yeah!

Am really looking forward to the oven 'cos Tiffy wants to bake again. I'm thinking of cookies and cakes and perhaps shepherd's pie, and what Shirley has in mind for me :-)