On Aug 12, 1:08*pm, wrote:
On Aug 12, 1:56*pm, terry wrote:

No details until tonight, when will be able to view a free stove with
a cracked top.
Gather at this point it's a complete glass topped stove with oven; but
it may turn out to be a separate cook-top and separate oven? No make
or model yet. Insufficient details given in local posting!
For information any idea what a is typical cost for a replacement
glass, also am assuming that the elements and controls can be detached
and affixed to the new glass. Also that it is not so old that the
glass is no longer available.
With these caveats it may not be worth doing?
But since would be own labour and tools worth looking into.
Any advice please welcomed.

From experience with a friend who bought a glass cooktop stove for his
rental house (big mistake) and the experience of others who have
posted here, it's very likely you will find the cost of the
replacement glass is so high that in the vast majority of cases, it
isn't worth it. * *In the case of the friends stove, the whole thing
cost like $320 and I think the glass part was ~ $250. * And if you had
to pay for labor, obviously it's worse. *The exception might be if it
were a high end unit, but even then, who knows.

Get the make/model and check it out at some online parts stores. * Let
us know what you find out.

As much as my wife and I both love our glass top stove and the one we
had in our prior home, I would NEVER place one in a rental home. They
are not for use by people who are uncaring or unwilling to take care
of them on an as used basis. Renters are not going to care if they
clean them right away or let them get dirty and cracked.