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kazmac said:
🤗 Can relate, was almost swimming due to ours going kaput in May.

And our oven igniter went bye bye yesterday, so that was just fixed.
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it sucks but I shouldn’t complain. I got it at a black Friday sale for what, $300? Something like that, more than 10 years ago.
I hope that your appliances are now all well!
 
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I feel almost jinxed again just reading this section of the thread... this very morning I was warming some milk in the microwave and thinking how amazing it is that something I got on sale for $58 ten years ago still works flawlessly. KNOCK ON WOOD I thought. Don't paint the devil on the wall!

OK so now I've said it out loud. Devil's on the wall, grinning...

Now watch: it will instead be the refrigerator that chortles and beckons the grim reaper to a choice spot in my savings account. Not even sure how old that thing is. Everyone said oh don't get an Amana. I know it was sometime around 1997. By now I know I'd get another Amana in a heartbeat if they're still in biz.
 
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LizKat said:
I feel almost jinxed again just reading this section of the thread... this very morning I was warming some milk in the microwave and thinking how amazing it is that something I got on sale for $58 ten years ago still works flawlessly. KNOCK ON WOOD I thought. Don't paint the devil on the wall!

OK so now I've said it out loud. Devil's on the wall, grinning...

Now watch: it will instead be the refrigerator that chortles and beckons the grim reaper to a choice spot in my savings account. Not even sure how old that thing is. Everyone said oh don't get an Amana. I know it was sometime around 1997. By now I know I'd get another Amana in a heartbeat if they're still in biz.
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One year, back in the days when I was a postgrad, and TA, my parents headed off on their annual holiday to the sun - Greece (the Greek islands - they adored Crete) or Turkey, I've forgotten which, but they were to be away for several weeks.

Even then, I liked to give - host - dinner parties, (and even then, was considered a pretty good chef by the standards of my peers) and therefore, very kindly, in addition to furnishing me with housekeeping money (some of which which I had already mentally re-assigned under the heading of drinking money), prior to their departure, they stocked up the freezer with the sort of stuff I wanted: Steaks, stewing beef, other meats, sausages, and so on, and stocked up the vegetables as well.

I was looking forward to a few quiet days, followed by a leisurely sequence of well-ordered and exceedingly pleasant dinner parties (amply lubricated).

As is the inevitable way of such things: Two days after their departure to Mediterranean climes, I awoke from a very pleasant night out to discover that the fridge and freezer had both committed suicide.

An emergency visit from an electrician (prudently, not all of the housekeeping money had been ear-marked for booze), managed to get the fridge limping along for a few further days, but he warned me that once the freezer defrosted, its contents had to consumed fairly rapidly or be consigned to the rubbish, and that both fridge and freezer had suffered a mortal affliction and that repair was not possible.

The dinner parties were brought forward and crammed and compressed into the first week of my parents' holiday, rather than being strung out over a leisurely period of a few weeks.

My father, meanwhile, had arranged their transport in such a way as to save himself (themselves) several hundred pounds on what they had expected to spend on getting themselves off our islands.

Within ten minutes of his return, he had ruefully conceded that whatever he had saved by juggling departure days, times, dates, would now have to go on a brand new fridge.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
One year, back in the days when I was a postgrad, and TA, my parents headed off on their annual holiday to the sun - Greece (the Greek islands - they adored Crete) or Turkey, I've forgotten which, but they were to be away for several weeks.

Even then, I liked to give - host - dinner parties, (and even then, was considered a pretty good chef by the standards of my peers) and therefore, very kindly, in addition to furnishing me with housekeeping money (some of which which I had already mentally re-assigned under the heading of drinking money), prior to their departure, they stocked up the freezer with the sort of stuff I wanted: Steaks, stewing beef, other meats, sausages, and so on, and stocked up the vegetables as well.

I was looking forward to a few quiet days, followed by a leisurely sequence of well-ordered and exceedingly pleasant dinner parties (amply lubricated).

As is the inevitable way of such things: Two days after their departure to Mediterranean climes, I awoke from a very pleasant night out to discover that the fridge and freezer had both committed suicide.

An emergency visit from an electrician (prudently, not all of the housekeeping money had been ear-marked for booze), managed to get the fridge limping along for a few further days, but he warned me that once the freezer defrosted, its contents had to consumed fairly rapidly or be consigned to the rubbish, and that both fridge and freezer had suffered a mortal affliction and that repair was not possible.

The dinner parties were brought forward and crammed and compressed into the first week of my parents' holiday, rather than being strung out over a leisurely period of a few weeks.

My father, meanwhile, had arranged their transport in such a way as to save himself (themselves) several hundred pounds on what they had expected to spend on getting themselves off our islands.

Within ten minutes of his return, he had ruefully conceded that whatever he had saved by juggling departure days, times, dates, would now have to go on a brand new fridge.
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Our shower seems to be dripping from the valve thing at the bottom. I'm hopping it lasts until we move. I really don't want to live without a shower, or pay for one to be installed if it stops working. Very annoying!
 
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Apple fanboy said:
Our shower seems to be dripping from the valve thing at the bottom. I'm hopping it lasts until we move. I really don't want to live without a shower, or pay for one to be installed if it stops working. Very annoying!
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Very annoying, agreed.

While there are some machines - or goods - that one can do without for a short period of time, showers do not fall into this category.

Zenithal said:
Am I the only person who does weekend maintenance checks?
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What do you mean by "maintenance checks"?

Anyway, to supply a reply to your question, very possibly, yes.
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
Very annoying, agreed.

While there are some machines - or goods - that one can do without for a short period of time, showers do not fall into this category.



What do you mean by "maintenance checks"?

Anyway, to supply a reply to your question, very possibly, yes.
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It looks repairable to be honest and shouldn't cost much. I might buy a valve and do the new owners a favour.
 
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yaxomoxay said:
it sucks but I shouldn’t complain. I got it at a black Friday sale for what, $300? Something like that, more than 10 years ago.
I hope that your appliances are now all well!
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Yeah, we just replaced our dishwasher, I had a box of parts (all the sprayers/bearings) to replace, and it crapped out completely before I installed them (returned, all good).

It was a nice GE Profile unit that we installed in 2002 I believe, if that's the case, that was a pretty good service life (~17 years).

The replacement is pretty fantastic so far, Bosch 300 series stainless, it's so quiet, it actually has a little light indicator it projects on the floor to show it's running :D

Our washer/dryer is an LG set, in Cherry metallic red :D It's got to be getting up there too, I did have to replace the front logic board/display on the dryer a few months ago, easy to DIY, ApplicancePartPros for the part (again), that was well over a year ago.
 
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D.T. said:
The replacement is pretty fantastic so far, Bosch 300 series stainless, it's so quiet, it actually has a little light indicator it projects on the floor to show it's running :D
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I replaced mine with a Bosch about five years ago and love it. It’s extremely quiet, but to be honest the old washer sounded like a chainsaw.

Btw, I have the red LG front loafers too.

Wow
 
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