Kitchen Gas Appliances - How long have your appliances lasted?
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Rae
01-02-08, 06:23 AM
Hi Everyone, I posted a while back re gas stove versus electric stove, conversion etc.
Something that has been on my mind for a time now... A couple years ago, I read an opinion piece in our local paper. The fellow was a national political writer and had regressed from his polictio writings that day to write about his 6 year-old refrigerator konking out on him. His writing was intense and pointed how this omnimportant appliance died at such a young age. Counting back, it would have been manufactured about 2000. The repairman told him it would cost more to repair than to buy new again. Yikes! Let me say that again...Yikes and EEEEEKK! I have quizzed the salemen on my search for new kitchen appliances in the last year and some do confirm that today's appliances will not last the 15-20 years that previous product did. Maybe not even a good 10 years. The more turn over, the better the economy. Good for the economy, but not good for
!ME! or !YOU! With this in the back of my mind, a major reason I have not made the purchase of new appliances and may wait for my first kitchen appliance to 'konk out' before I replace them. I have the 3 kitchen appliances original to the home in 1986. A Hotpoint electric oven, Whirlpool refrigerator and Roper Dishwasher. They all work fine for their age. The oven bakes slower than I would like but I turn the temp up 25 degrees, bakes fine. The fridge makes laboring noises at times but still chugs right along. Narry a problem with my dishwasher.
Does anyone out there have any bad experiences with newer appliances not lasting? I think we should have a quarantee of longer than 6 years...huh? Did anyone see the opinion piece I refer to? Not sure, but his name might have been Walter Williamson. No time to look it up now. Quite unsettling...
Something that has been on my mind for a time now... A couple years ago, I read an opinion piece in our local paper. The fellow was a national political writer and had regressed from his polictio writings that day to write about his 6 year-old refrigerator konking out on him. His writing was intense and pointed how this omnimportant appliance died at such a young age. Counting back, it would have been manufactured about 2000. The repairman told him it would cost more to repair than to buy new again. Yikes! Let me say that again...Yikes and EEEEEKK! I have quizzed the salemen on my search for new kitchen appliances in the last year and some do confirm that today's appliances will not last the 15-20 years that previous product did. Maybe not even a good 10 years. The more turn over, the better the economy. Good for the economy, but not good for
!ME! or !YOU! With this in the back of my mind, a major reason I have not made the purchase of new appliances and may wait for my first kitchen appliance to 'konk out' before I replace them. I have the 3 kitchen appliances original to the home in 1986. A Hotpoint electric oven, Whirlpool refrigerator and Roper Dishwasher. They all work fine for their age. The oven bakes slower than I would like but I turn the temp up 25 degrees, bakes fine. The fridge makes laboring noises at times but still chugs right along. Narry a problem with my dishwasher.
Does anyone out there have any bad experiences with newer appliances not lasting? I think we should have a quarantee of longer than 6 years...huh? Did anyone see the opinion piece I refer to? Not sure, but his name might have been Walter Williamson. No time to look it up now. Quite unsettling...