Need to vent - Is it me or do the appliances now days suck?

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lorijean

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Last week I had a repair man out because my refrigerator was freezing things in the bottom drawer. It's 5 years old and I nearly dropped my teeth when the tech told me it could be some computer board for $400. He did some tweaks to see if he could reboot it before replacing.

Then last night I was preparing dinner - my Dacor oven was preheated and I was cooking on the burners when I turned around to get someting and heard a weird PSSFT noise. Looked at the stove and it was dead. The digital display was gone and I smelled this electrical smell. Does anyone out there have a Dacor or had similar problem. I have this fear that it is a biggee.

Thanks for listening and for any advice you can give.

 
No help here either, but my husband, out of the blue, mentioned getting a new stovetop . . .

and I told him no, because all the new ones I have seen are electronic, and you cannot light them if the electricity goes out.

I don't like the new stuff either; it usually has bells and whistles when it doesn't NEED bells and whistles.

Just give me something that works, and works all of the time.

 
Nope, I dumped what I had prepared so far, opened a bottle of

wine and called for pizza delivery. Thankfully I'd planned a crock pot dinner for tonight. We tried pressing the reset button this AM (which is not easy to get at) and when we flipped the breaker back on it popped, so I'm sure something very expensive burned out. urgh

 
When I told the appliance dealer that my washer was twenty five years old he said

"Don't expect that with a new one. They don't make any money from the ones that last twenty five years so now they build them to break."

 
I've had my Dacor 6 burner cooktop for about 5 years now. It's the analog, gas burner but have had

no problems with it to date . . . (knocking wood, spinning around 3 times and not mentioning "the Scottish Play".)

 
So true, the repair man is coming out today - I may need massive

amounts to drown my sorrows. Or on the positive side it might be a good time to try one of those "Raw Diets"

 
Have to recant part of my earlier post. The repair man came out yesterday

and couldn't find anything wrong initially. So he pulled the oven out and saw a black mark coming out of the electrical box. My oven is hard wired and one of the wired connections had shorted out and melted. He repaired that wire and the oven started right up. I now will have an electrician come out and check it out. Very scary - could have been a fire.

 
You can partially blame the gov't - new regs

in an effort to be 'green' and to meet USGBC standards for LEED and such, most refrigerator and freezers are just not what they used to be.

LEED basically worries only about green house gases. Doesn't matter that it takes more energy to make refrigerator/freezer products run now and they have to work harder and be cleaned more often and have more air circulation space. Sorry - don't really mean to rant but since my projects now have to be LEED Silver Certified and I am getting ready to get my accrediation and learning all this, it's sticking in my you know what.

We had 3 commercial brand undercounter freezers go out all in less than 3 years - and this is a top brand known for it's durability and long life span. They usually last about 25 years. So when I started investigating that as well as newer mechanical systems I started hearing the real problems and issues.

But our 'new' refrigerator had to be serviced so many times in the one year warranty period it was ridiculous - replaced the whole control panel system when it didn't work after delivery. Replaced one door catch system. Now that it's out of warranty the other door catch is broken. The temperatures ranges are extreme - freezer goes from -7 to 0 or 6 in no time at all in the winter with us not even opening it up much or adding stuff that is not frozen. Fridge keeps going below 34 down to 32 or 30 (which is the coldest setting) for no reason and freezing everything in there and then soars up to 37. Everything is made of plastic plastic plastic - especially the pieces that should be made of metal because they support weight and recieve frequent movement like sliding.

My old Bosch dishwasher was the bomb but finally a little plastic piece broke after about 12 years and we thought it better to replace - WRONG. The new models because of energy codes, doesn't dry plastics - condensate gets on them and sometimes on other things. You need to do them while you are around and can pop it open the minute it turns off so the moisture can escape.

The Sears Kenmore upright freezer we got from wedding gift money in 1991 s still going strong - only thing wrong is a broken lock thanks to my stepson forgetting we kept it locked (it was in the garage and it was a measure to make sure it was closed good) so he just pried until he popped the lock instead of calling and asking anyone why it wouldn't open. And a little rust spot on top where I sit the iron (it's in my laundry room) and had a leaking iron one time.

My Viking range has held up pretty well for 15 years though I did have to replace all the burners several years ago. I want an old Chambers stove and not because of RR who I can't stand but because of their features, durability and easy to fix. But the only one for sale around here has been for sale for at least a year- they want $16k for it - yeah, you heard me right.

 
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