Modern appliances, grumble, grumble,

[Fixemall]

Hmmm, yet very high end stoves like commercial units are still mostly mechanical...looks like "consumer grade" stuff is where the junk is.

 

[Sammy the red]

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the plus side is... at night i can walk around my entire house courtesy of all the LED lighting and clocks. Its like daylight in the house....

Those LED's sure help guide one's way thru a dark house....... Saves a bunch of bumping into stuff !

 

[om21braz]

Hmmm, yet very high end stoves like commercial units are still mostly mechanical...looks like "consumer grade" stuff is where the junk is.

Seems folks with the Viking, Sub-Zero, etc. high dollar appliances still have plenty of issues as do people with the regular units - based upon posts in the GardenWeb forums. Then again, some people are impossible to please.

 

[jonnyc1999]

I bought my house new 3 years ago. After only a year and a half, the handle on my Frigidaire microwave broke off. To open the door i actually have to pry it open from the bottom lip! Like, seriously?!?!?!?! It also has a crack in the plastic on th hinge side. I'm waiting for it to fall off any day!

For a washer and dryer I decided to go with Speed Queen. The technology is "outdated" (toploader) but the machine has all steel gears, almost zero plastic, and according to the salesman is designed to be run every day for the next 20 years! The fact that Speed Queen is the brand that many laundromats use was a big selling point for me :thumbsup:

 

[MossflowerWoods]

I have been a bit worried on this topic myself.

#1 - I am a computer hardware engineer type guy, and I make a living off the fact they ALWAYS break.

#2 - Most of my life the appliances have worked very well for a long time.

#3 - I had no choice in my current house. Basically everything was the cheapest unit that could be found, many, many years old, and they worked poorly. I needed to replace them all (well the washer was fairly new, but it was too small 5-6 years old).

So I bought new everything at the veteran's day sale with 10% off and a couple of them were clearence items. But as amazing as the new washer and dryer are (My wife LOVES doing laundry now she says), I can envision that there is NO WAY they will still be running in 10 years. The swanky Samsung fridge (no I did NOT pay $3000, I got it for $500) is the same, way too high tech. All of the other appliances at my two rentals are at LEAST 10 years old...

I certainly hope my TRACTOR will last at least until I have grandkids, but do you guys think in 50-60 years people will still be bush-hogging on that old Kubota/Kioti/Cub Cadet/ whatever like they do today with an 8N?

In many ways our society has totally become "Throw It Away" or disposable. Heck we even feel that way about people in some cases.

It makes me wonder what is coming in the future? Will the world go the direction of Wall-E or ???

Sorry for threadjacking... Seems I'm thinking too much this morning.

MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL!
David

 

[MossflowerWoods]

I bought my house new 3 years ago. After only a year and a half, the handle on my Frigidaire microwave broke off. To open the door i actually have to pry it open from the bottom lip! Like, seriously?!?!?!?! It also has a crack in the plastic on th hinge side. I'm waiting for it to fall off any day!

For a washer and dryer I decided to go with Speed Queen. The technology is "outdated" (toploader) but the machine has all steel gears, almost zero plastic, and according to the salesman is designed to be run every day for the next 20 years! The fact that Speed Queen is the brand that many laundromats use was a big selling point for me :thumbsup:

Morning Jon!

I've never seen a Speed Queen (Maybe I need to get out more:laughing. Where did you find a place selling them?

Merry Christmas my friend.
David

 

[jmurray01]

I have been a bit worried on this topic myself.

#1 - I am a computer hardware engineer type guy, and I make a living off the fact they ALWAYS break.

#2 - Most of my life the appliances have worked very well for a long time.

#3 - I had no choice in my current house. Basically everything was the cheapest unit that could be found, many, many years old, and they worked poorly. I needed to replace them all (well the washer was fairly new, but it was too small 5-6 years old).

So I bought new everything at the veteran's day sale with 10% off and a couple of them were clearence items. But as amazing as the new washer and dryer are (My wife LOVES doing laundry now she says), I can envision that there is NO WAY they will still be running in 10 years. The swanky Samsung fridge (no I did NOT pay $3000, I got it for $500) is the same, way too high tech. All of the other appliances at my two rentals are at LEAST 10 years old...

I certainly hope my TRACTOR will last at least until I have grandkids, but do you guys think in 50-60 years people will still be bush-hogging on that old Kubota/Kioti/Cub Cadet/ whatever like they do today with an 8N?

In many ways our society has totally become "Throw It Away" or disposable. Heck we even feel that way about people in some cases.

It makes me wonder what is coming in the future? Will the world go the direction of Wall-E or ???

Sorry for threadjacking... Seems I'm thinking too much this morning.

MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL!
David

Sorry, I'm struggling to understand... Are you saying you like old stuff or new stuff ?

I think I need another coffee!

I know what you mean about the Throw It Away attitude these days though.

Over on VacuumLand almost every day I hear about somebody picking up a valuable vintage cleaner that somebody had thrown (literally in most cases) onto the side of the road for the garbage men to take away.

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Sorry, I'm struggling to understand... Are you saying you like old stuff or new stuff ?

I think I need another coffee!

I know what you mean about the Throw It Away attitude these days though.

Over on VacuumLand almost every day I hear about somebody picking up a valuable vintage cleaner that somebody had thrown (literally in most cases) onto the side of the road for the garbage men to take away.

I need another coffee too!

Somewhere here on TBN I wrote up a spoof about Vacuums as "house tractors", I wonder if I can find it... It was a trifle funny...

Mostly I am a worry wart. I LOVE our new appliances, but I fear they will not last.

Same with my new car, I LOVE LOVE LOVE it, but I'm not sure I can see it still driving in 25 years. My buddy had a computer problem in his mini-van recently and it was messing up the throttle, turn signals, tranny, weird stuff as he was driving even! He replaced the computer motherboard... it got a little better...

I was also grousing about the underlying attitude of "disposableness = goodness".

I'm just being negative today. I promise to shape up...
Be well,
David

PS - It is very cool to have a Buddy in Scotland...:thumbsup:

 

[Fixemall]

Seems folks with the Viking, Sub-Zero, etc. high dollar appliances still have plenty of issues as do people with the regular units - based upon posts in the GardenWeb forums. Then again, some people are impossible to please.

When I sat with my engineer to build my current retirement house, he flat out told me to get all Bosch or Thermador commercial units, I was already on board with that as I was selling a house with 15 year old stuff that still worked and looked new, even after heavy use. No LEDs and big clunky metal controls for me are the way to go. Imagine my surprise when I drove by my old house to discover my old dishwasher at the curb, it still resides in my shop as a parts washer to this day...apparently they wanted LEDs

 

[Ridgewalker]

Great thread!

All the LEDs light my way thru the house at night too. I wish there was a way to turn them off.

We recently moved and had to get a new fridge, it's a Samsung with a control panel on the door. When it was delivered the panel didn't work and the door was replaced. I am hoping I get 10 years out of it but I think I am dreaming.

Everything these days is made to last 5 years or so it seems. I do my best to find old stuff before I consider buying new anymore. Heck I just picked up 80 year old Cat 1 Dearborn plow and disc that need a little love but are mostly in fine shape.