Well, this is awkward. You expect that someday your dryer may manifest a problem that will prevent it from functioning at all, but what you didn’t expect was the dryer to just keep running. It keeps rotating, making heat, or just never stops until you physically cut the electricity to it or open the door and trigger the safety mechanism. …
Most people who currently have a gas stove did not choose to buy that stove. The stove came with the house. Over 80% of rental homes include whatever stove was installed by the last owner-resident or the original builders. Homes on the market sold as move-in-ready include all the essential appliances, including the stove, so even homeowners cook on the …
Whirlpool is a household brand in the home and while not every appliance you own may be a Whirlpool, you can trust you are getting a pretty good appliance when it is of that brand. Yet, any appliance, over time, will begin to wear down and manifest malfunctions. It is just something that will happen. If you are lucky, the …
Your microwave is one of the most encapsulated appliances in the home. For most appliances, you can see how the parts would come apart and go back together. Microwaves, however, are built in a way designed to disguise disassembly. This is one of the reasons why microwave repairs seem so daunting or don’t even occur to us at all, even …
The washer and dryer in your home are designed to work together. But in the balance of time, the dryer often takes longer than the washer when trying to move multiple loads of laundry through the machines. This is made all the more challenging if your dryer seems to have slowed down on how long it takes to dry clothes, …
Clank, bang, boom — Your oven is making noises. There are some noises that you expect from the oven. A small click when the gas ignites, a whiny hinge as you open the door, the hum of a fan, but most other noises, they are not normal. As an oven is an appliance that creates heat, anything going wrong with …
Many refrigerators have ice makers. Most drop the ice into a handy bin where you can grab them one at a time or by the handful. A few of the high-end models of refrigerators also include a dispensing water system for cold, filtered water and ice cubes. You can get cubed ice or crushed ice, sometimes even dispensed at different …
Front load washing machines are the latest in decorative and convenient appliances. Many people were very happy to finally have a washer and dryer that open the same way, in the same or cooperative directions. The front-loading washer is also more decorative, providing a window of soapy spinning clothes for laundry room entertainment. However, there is nothing entertaining about a …
Refrigerators are one of the most used appliances in the house. Consider the number of times you open your refrigerator each day, from cooking meals to casually snacking. Now multiply that by the number of people in the house, each cooking or perusing the fridge every single day. Then there’s the occasional rough-housing or over-enthusiastic recipes that can put extra …
Appliances tend to fail into an off state, meaning that they don’t do the things they should rather than doing things they shouldn’t. It’s important for appliances to have a failsafe mechanism built into nearly every system so that if something fails, the appliance stops working instead of continuing to work to catastrophic effect. However, sometimes these fail-safes don’t work …
