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Kitchen looks like it's coming along nicely! Did someone paint the left edge of the countertop? Also, you know that there's a whole sub forum for home improvement stuff right?
Kitchen looks like it's coming along nicely! Did someone paint the left edge of the countertop? Also, you know that there's a whole sub forum for home improvement stuff right?
It's usable again and looks nicer. I don't care about this stuff and would have just fixed the damage. Happy wife, happy life.
After they painted the cabinet they saw a need for touch up and the counter was already on. Since it is temporary until the quartz arrives he didn't tape it.
I'm not planning on any more home improvement so this can be my thread of nonsense.
Nice. We have something similar in our house and love it. Quartz is awesome, super easy to clean. Just don't put anything hot on it otherwise bad things happen.
The issues are, we won't be here more than 5 years, no need for "forever" appliances
Wife liked the simple 21 year old builder grade GE appliances that are leaving.
When the microwave died a few months ago (before this mess) we got the current stainless version of our 21 year old GE.
When this happened, getting the "matching GE stainless appliances was indicated. I'm afraid of the stove, have not tried it yet, good news is it was on closeout for under 500! (was 1k)
House is looking great and loving the white wheels.
July 3rd, my wife turned on the dishwasher and went to bed but for some reason she came back out in the kitchen to find the mat in front of the sink was wet and luckily, opened the cabinet below the sink. Come to find out, the garage disposal either rusted internally or the seal went and water was streaming out the bottom of it via the reset button. Under the sink was soaked and starting to leak out but luckily, we caught it in time so we dried it out, put a fan in, and replaced the disposal the next morning but my fear almost came true, glad your kitchen is almost there!
Get a Bosch or KitchenAid. GE suxxors, we got one in our house from what the builder installed and it's horrible.
GE/Whirlpool/KitchenAid ftw
When our LG bit the dust, I replaced it with a fairly budget Whirlpool. Barely louder & cleans just as well.
If we'd had more budget for it, it would've been a KA.
House is looking great and loving the white wheels.
July 3rd, my wife turned on the dishwasher and went to bed but for some reason she came back out in the kitchen to find the mat in front of the sink was wet and luckily, opened the cabinet below the sink. Come to find out, the garage disposal either rusted internally or the seal went and water was streaming out the bottom of it via the reset button. Under the sink was soaked and starting to leak out but luckily, we caught it in time so we dried it out, put a fan in, and replaced the disposal the next morning but my fear almost came true, glad your kitchen is almost there!
I wish we had gotten that lucky, you dodged a bullet.
Thanks
Originally Posted by 00TL-P3.2
GE/Whirlpool/KitchenAid ftw
When our LG bit the dust, I replaced it with a fairly budget Whirlpool. Barely louder & cleans just as well.
If we'd had more budget for it, it would've been a KA.
After my Dad died, Mom sold her house & moved in here, we got their 2 year old stainless KA, I hate it! It has 2 small upper double doors (one does not shut properly) and a lower freezer. Holds less than the 14 year old full double door GE we had before.
We also sold our Maytag washer & dryer that were also 14 but worked great & kept their 2 year old fancy Samsung Washer & dryer, also wrong decision.
Yeah, I'll let Samsung & LG stick to phones & TVs.
Whirlpool is my reasonable price go-to. Our Whirlpool Cabrio Platinum washer & dryer have been going great since around 2013.
The LG dishwasher we had, one of the pumps was getting progressively louder. Similar to 1stgencl, I decided to check it when I started it [we typically start it when we go to bed], took the trim panel off the bottom & started it. Looked under & saw an extremely bright arc/spark from the pump wiring. Shut it down & ordered the Whirlpool then. New DW was only about $200 more than replacing the pump on the LG, and no guarantee that was the only problem.
You can definitely get a Bosch dishwasher for $900...I'm about to do it right now.
We had LG fridge, washer, dryer, and stove in my old house and they were all fantastic. No issues with any of them for the 6 years we had them (they were also fine when we moved). Bought LG washer/dryer for the new house as well.
DIsagree on Whirlpool, they're junk. There's really only 4 or 5 actual appliance manufacturers and lots of conglomerates that just slap a badge on them. Bosch & Electrolux/Frigidaire individually make their own stuff. Whirlpool makes Maytag & KitchenAid. Monogram, Café, GE/GE Profile, Haier, and Hotpoint are all made to specific price points by a Chinese manufacturer. LG and Samsung share lots of parts with Whirlpool branded stuff, but it depends on the appliance type.
Short answer: +1 for Bosch. I'm pretty sure the 500 series is under $1k.
Maybe we got lucky but we got late 2008 to early 2022 on the GE fridge & Maytag W&D, no issues from any of them, all were fine when we inherited the nice looking junk.
Frigidaire is one I'll steer well clear of. We had all Frigidaire in our old house. Had the Fridge die, DW was acting up, microwave had been replaced prior to us moving in. Not a fan.
Whirlpool has been great for us & US based service as well [not that we've needed to utilize it].
Appliance guy I know/trust highly recommends the Whirlpool group [Whirlpool, KA, Amana, Maytag]
I think my parents have a Bosch DW. Nearly silent, you only know it's running by the little red light it shines on the floor [blue when complete].
On the flipside - I've had nothing but issues with my Whirlpool dw, gas cooktop, wall oven, and microwave. I've put ~$250 in parts into the dw to limp it along a little longer. The microwave failed at year 3; I replaced it with a Frigidaire or Kitchenaid, can't recall - it was the cheapest one I could find and it's been going strong for the past 4 years. The oven cannot hold temp. The gas cooktop is great if you're cooking on medium high or hotter. Anything lower is highly inconsistent. Thankfully my fridges (LG in the kitchen, Titan wine fridge, and Frigidaire in the garage) have been solid, though the LG did have issues early on that were corrected, and they extended the warranty. The LG washer/dryer has been solid as well, minus a $15 door switch that failed on the dryer.
I'd probably stay away from Frigidaires with more bells and whistles since I have seen a lot of issues with those. The one I have in the garage is just a basic, small top freezer unit that was ~$600. It's been solid for ~4 years now. The same goes for the cheap (I think it was ~$200 at the time) microwave.
Gauge is in, stole the passenger side O2 and am having the bung installed on the driver side, the AFR/Boost gauge will get that sensor (figured it made sense to have them on the right side)
07-06-2024, 06:09 PM
