Any appliance repair people?

Digging an old one up. We are on the hunt for a fridge. Wasted an entire beautiful Saturday yesterday going store to store looking. Mainly looking for input on brands. On the buy cheap angle, Costco had a Hisense at like half the $ of comparable 'main brands '. Never heard of them before. Gimme your good fridge input. 😏

The  all take a $hit at 3 years then with a brand new everything underneath ( warranty )

Do it again in 2 years...

Haven't tried Samsung yet....

My only input is that when you find a model you like...search all the big box stores for "scratch an dent" units.  I've seen them marked off up to 75%.  Who cares if the back of your refrigerator is scratched or dented?  But...I'm a cheap bastard.

Interesting read

Year or two Pre pandemic my Wife wanted a new Frigidaire refrigerator/freezer that had water and ice on the door. It has 2 different ice makers in it and the one just for the door was freezing up every few months. The Freezer ice maker worked fine so it’s getting water. We would turn off the refrigerator for a couple hours and it would defrost enough to start working again. Then it stopped working all together and even though defrosting didnt work. After about a year it mysteriously just started working again.

One morning I was getting a glass of water and the water wouldn’t stop till I put something behind the lever to hold the normally spring loaded lever back like the spring had failed. Took it apart and there was a extremely small and flimsy spring arm that had broken. I replaced the whole ice flapper assemble for about $50 to get it working again.

Back in the 80’s I worked for Tribles an appliance parts franchise with a main warehouse and multiple locations in the Maryland Virginia Washington DC area for a couple years. From my experience Maytag was by far the best most reliable of all the brands back then. 

One of the many appliance repair men that we dealt with all the time was one of  President Regans Secret Service detail when he was shot.

This channel is gold for appliances.

lol thats our refrigerator in the picture

Great stuff, thanks guys. We don't want or need ice makers or water dispensers. Or inet shit. Sounds like my Frigidaire and GE feelings might be on track. Of course, anything can break. 🤔

I've repaired washers, dryers, dish washers and electric stove tops of Kenmore, Samsung and Maytag.  It is insanely easy or lets say simple most of the time.  I can generally figure out what is wrong with it.  I get online and get the part from Appliancewarehouse or partswarehouse.  They both have videos for just about every part and every brand on YT.  I don't think I've ever spent more than $120 for a part.  When I wasn't sure, I've talked to them on the phone and confirmed the problem and part needed.  I mean every repair I've done has been easier than rebuilding a 2 stroke and I know you can all do that.  

Note: the biggest pounding I've taken pricewise has been on refrigerator doors and shelves.  It is stupid what you have to pay for those plastic parts and glass shelves.  

Except for ac, I follow this rule. 

Everything in my kitchen was a result of “sort price low to high”, no regrets 🤷‍♂️

I’d steer away from expensive name brand shit unless you get a sale discount with a good warranty.

Hard to answer beyond that without knowing the specific issue/s and make/model/year of everything.

"One of the many appliance repair men that we dealt with all the time was one of  President Regans Secret Service detail when he was shot."

Was there a cause and effect situation between Reagan being shot and your guy fixing appliances?  

I can tell you that if you find a cheap/free gas oven on craigslist/facebook where the problem is that it's slow to heat, nine out of ten times it's the $25 igniter that takes ten minutes to swap. 

Anyone here repair pagers and walkie talkies?

I want a refrigerator that keeps my food cold. 

My wife wants one that bin locates all the food, texts you when the mustard runs low, and has an LCD front door that goes from opaque to clear when you tap it, so you can see what's inside with the door closed. Fuck me, that's ridiculous. I wonder how long that $2500 steel monolith is going to last? And why does everything need an internet connection and a subscription service? 

We're still looking. Didn't realize how difficult this was going to be. 🤨

I've had just about everything fail at one time or another.  luckily with enough google/youtube searching I've been able to get everything back up and running for under $100.