| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? 16:00 - Jan 26 with 1240 views | Toast_R |
My dad's double oven broke, the switch on the main oven no longer clicks into place and just spins when turned. Switch broken, it's worn. 2008 Bosch oven, it happens. Rest of it works fine, top oven and grill.
Quotes from local company to repair it, order the part and replace it, £90 call out, cost of part £35 to £60 and labour £150 plus VAT.
Just bought him a brand new double oven for £430 including delivery, and removal and recycling of the broken one.
I can remember in the 80s and 90s, household appliances were always repaired. Was it always that expensive?
Seems ridiculous, but there you go.
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| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 16:19 - Jan 26 with 1158 views | Boston |
One of the strings to my bow is Property Management. As such, I pay for repairs, replacements on a monthly basis and, you would be correct, the cost of buying a new appliance has, proportionately, reduced compared to the expense of making repairs.
It's primarily the labour charge that has tipped the balance on expenditures.
My rules of thumb, stay away from the cheaper models, don't purchase from big box stores, take a good look at the extended warranty offers then do a quick wiki on the appliance in question, otherwise, if it's a newish machine that requires attention, I'll go up to 50% of the value of purchasing a new one, if older, than the cut off is 30%. |  |
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| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 16:19 - Jan 26 with 1157 views | R_from_afar |
I think repairs are more expensive now. I was quoted £90 minimum to repair hiking boots whose soles were coming off. I managed to buy a decent new pair for just £47.
If you have a faulty electronic device, including cookers, the website ifixit.com might be helpful. |  |
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| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 16:25 - Jan 26 with 1139 views | Boston |
| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 16:19 - Jan 26 by R_from_afar |
I think repairs are more expensive now. I was quoted £90 minimum to repair hiking boots whose soles were coming off. I managed to buy a decent new pair for just £47.
If you have a faulty electronic device, including cookers, the website ifixit.com might be helpful. |
When I was a kid, my dad fixed everything with a 'liddlebiddatape'! | |
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| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 16:34 - Jan 26 with 1098 views | W12 |
These days most repairs can be followed on YouTube, It's just then the matter of googling the oven make and model to find the replacement part.
Alternatively, if it moves but shouldn’t: Duct tape. If it doesn’t move but should: WD-40. These two items cover all of your needs.
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| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 16:34 - Jan 26 with 1094 views | Toast_R |
| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 16:25 - Jan 26 by Boston |
When I was a kid, my dad fixed everything with a 'liddlebiddatape'! |
I remember my dad used to fix shit. Washing machine? Remember him out in the garden late one summers night, hammering away at the drum. Did it though. My old Raleigh Grifter- replaced the bearings in one of the wheels after I had inexplicably ridden it down some concrete steps in the local park. He could have fixed that blindfolded. "Used be down the tip with my brother, building bikes out of parts we'd find" he'd boast...
He was a typewriter engineer by trade so had the patience and understanding that I certainly don't feel capable of. He's 85 now though so just can't do those things anymore. | | | |
| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 16:37 - Jan 26 with 1081 views | ted_hendrix |
That ovens switch will be repaired and sold second hand with probably a three Month guarantee. |  |
| My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic. |
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| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 16:44 - Jan 26 with 1059 views | Boston |
| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 16:37 - Jan 26 by ted_hendrix |
That ovens switch will be repaired and sold second hand with probably a three Month guarantee. |
Sounds like a bargain Del Boy. | |
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| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 16:48 - Jan 26 with 1036 views | Benny_the_Ball |
It's becoming typical of a growing throwaway culture across a range of products such as cars, appliances, tech, clothes, and shoes. I think it's a combination of factors. The gap between cost of repair and replace has closed plus there's the added comfort of warranty that comes with new items. Specialist repair shops are disappearing from our high streets. In some cases, the change might be driven by tightening regulations. As a society we're more time poor these days so there's less appetite to repair. Personally I always try to repair myself if the fix is relatively straightforward and the information is readily available on the internet. However, even with DIY repairs there comes a tipping point at which the saving doesn't justify the time and effort involved, unless the item in question is rare or has sentimental value. |  | | |
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| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 16:52 - Jan 26 with 1023 views | essextaxiboy |
Another vote for You Tube , most faults are common or give off a fault code so it’s easy to find a video . Watch a bloke doing it , cheap part from China off E Bay and away you go .. |  | | |
| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 17:05 - Jan 26 with 965 views | CLAREMAN1995 |
I threw in the towel last year when the fridge started to act up and the temperature kept going up .The freezer part was fine but not the fridge.
We had 3 seperate repair guys come out ,repaired 3 completly different things for roughly $500 in total yet the problem never went away.The motherboard,transformer and I cannot remember the 3rd one but nobody had a clue and as usual I lost out.
Pushed the thing out by the street less than 5 minutes a Mexican scrappper came by took it to the scrapyard got probably $50 to $100 and me off to Home Depot to drop $2300 on a new Samsung model .
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| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 17:28 - Jan 26 with 902 views | stowmarketrange |
We used to take empty 40ft shipping containers into various scrapyards around the country to be filled up with old fridges,freezers,tvs and ovens to send overseas to parts of the world to be recycled for spare parts or broken down into scrap metal.
Too many decided that it wasn’t worth the hassle or expense of repairing electricals when it’s almost as cheap to buy another one.
These repair shops normally charge a fee to discover what the problem is before they even charge for the repair to the item,so it makes you wonder how many people bother these days. |  | | |
| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 17:52 - Jan 26 with 844 views | Toast_R |
| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 16:52 - Jan 26 by essextaxiboy |
Another vote for You Tube , most faults are common or give off a fault code so it’s easy to find a video . Watch a bloke doing it , cheap part from China off E Bay and away you go .. |
I did check but couldn't find anything specific to his Oven model on this occasion.
I have used YouTube many a time for doing repairs on cars. Managed to remove and replace the ABS pump on my old Mazda 3 via a YouTube video. That saved me about £800. | | | |
| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 17:54 - Jan 26 with 832 views | Benny_the_Ball |
| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 17:28 - Jan 26 by stowmarketrange |
We used to take empty 40ft shipping containers into various scrapyards around the country to be filled up with old fridges,freezers,tvs and ovens to send overseas to parts of the world to be recycled for spare parts or broken down into scrap metal.
Too many decided that it wasn’t worth the hassle or expense of repairing electricals when it’s almost as cheap to buy another one.
These repair shops normally charge a fee to discover what the problem is before they even charge for the repair to the item,so it makes you wonder how many people bother these days. |
Indeed. Plus throw in the fact that modern products are computer controlled and it becomes easier to see why some folk don't bother. Cars are a a prime example. In my youth so many men would spend their Sundays tinkering on their pride and joy armed with little more than a Haynes manual. As cars were largely mechanical, diagnosing a fault required a basic understanding of the engineering involved, a modicum of patience, and a methodical approach to the problem. Now there are multiple ECUs and sensors controlling increasingly complex features that we don't really need. Many garages just read fault codes that often don't reveal the root cause and therefore some mechanics struggle to identify the offending part. You can end up replacing parts that weren't faulty in the first place thus increasing the cost of repair. | | | |
| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 17:59 - Jan 26 with 807 views | HantsR |
I do my own repairs whenever I can, and although I'm no expert, I do have time, being retired. Oven element, washing machine pumps & switches, taps & shower cartridges, Sebo vacuum cleaner and Karcher pressure washer all fixed in the last year or two. E-spares and associated YouTube instructions are very useful! Also just had a kitchen makeover done by a really good company, making use of existing features, carcases etc where possible to create what looks and feels like a new kitchen. |  | | |
| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 18:07 - Jan 26 with 788 views | slmrstid |
We had the heating element go on our oven a couple of years ago - the top oven and grill worked fine but we couldnt use both at the same time.
I'm not capable of fixing it - we thought about whether to replace it (we'd had it a good 7 or 8 years at least) but decided to pay fixed fee of £149 to repair it. The wife was here, the guy took about 20 minutes I think to do it so probably a great profit margin for them, but we decided at the time that the cost of that, whilst probably a bit uneconimical, was better for us to have it immediately up and running again rather than go through the faff of shopping for a new one, waiting for delivery, dealing with the install etc... |  | | |
| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 18:18 - Jan 26 with 720 views | Boston |
| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 17:05 - Jan 26 by CLAREMAN1995 |
I threw in the towel last year when the fridge started to act up and the temperature kept going up .The freezer part was fine but not the fridge.
We had 3 seperate repair guys come out ,repaired 3 completly different things for roughly $500 in total yet the problem never went away.The motherboard,transformer and I cannot remember the 3rd one but nobody had a clue and as usual I lost out.
Pushed the thing out by the street less than 5 minutes a Mexican scrappper came by took it to the scrapyard got probably $50 to $100 and me off to Home Depot to drop $2300 on a new Samsung model .
It works nicely though |
BIG mistake there Clare...
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| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 19:18 - Jan 26 with 640 views | hubble |
When we moved into our new flat in 1962, my mum bought an LEC fridge with a small freezer compartment. It looked like those trendy Smeg fridges you see today.
She moved to Yorkshire with her partner in 1984 and took the fridge with her. The last time I went to see her partner (mum died several years ago), the fridge was still going strong. That's 63 years it's been running, and even the freezer compartment still works! |  |
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| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 20:04 - Jan 26 with 536 views | Benny_the_Ball |
| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 16:37 - Jan 26 by ted_hendrix |
That ovens switch will be repaired and sold second hand with probably a three Month guarantee. |
It wouldn't surprise me. A bit like cars which are written off only to return to the road as CAT N or S. | | | |
| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 22:24 - Jan 26 with 376 views | GroveR |
| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 16:34 - Jan 26 by Toast_R |
I remember my dad used to fix shit. Washing machine? Remember him out in the garden late one summers night, hammering away at the drum. Did it though. My old Raleigh Grifter- replaced the bearings in one of the wheels after I had inexplicably ridden it down some concrete steps in the local park. He could have fixed that blindfolded. "Used be down the tip with my brother, building bikes out of parts we'd find" he'd boast...
He was a typewriter engineer by trade so had the patience and understanding that I certainly don't feel capable of. He's 85 now though so just can't do those things anymore. |
Ah the Grifter, chariot of mine youth! Weren't they made from the same shìt they make soviet submarine hulls out of? I'm pretty sure NASA fired one into the sun in the 80s to see what would happen and apart from some superficial hairline cracks to the saddle, it's still trundling away somewhere in the region of Andromeda.
I just looked up Raleigh Choppers for a laugh and they're going for between two and three THOUSAND quid these days  |  | | |
| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 22:28 - Jan 26 with 368 views | Boston |
| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 19:18 - Jan 26 by hubble |
When we moved into our new flat in 1962, my mum bought an LEC fridge with a small freezer compartment. It looked like those trendy Smeg fridges you see today.
She moved to Yorkshire with her partner in 1984 and took the fridge with her. The last time I went to see her partner (mum died several years ago), the fridge was still going strong. That's 63 years it's been running, and even the freezer compartment still works! |
I was going to post a reply to this, but I just couldn't... | |
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| Appliance Repairs - Who Bothers these days? on 23:39 - Jan 26 with 283 views | CiderwithRsie |
There's some sort of gag about it being cheaper to buy a new Taylor Richards than repair the one we own but I'm too fed up after losing to bloody Sheff Wednesday to bother working it out. | | | |
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