Whew, that was close. Fridge failure.

[rcole_sooner]

The fridge filters are not bad, but OMG the ice maker filters are $50+.

 

[pnuggett]

We bought an LG frenchie door refrigerator when we moved into our house 10+ years ago. The icemaker quit after about 4 years. It would have cost about $450.00 to have it replaced by an appliance service. Bought a new icemaker unit for $125.00 on line and replaced it in about twenty minutes. The fridge and icemaker still work perfectly.

 

[six-string]

He's not the only one.

It's true. When I come home from a hard day mastodon hunting and fighting off the bearcats, I just want to put my feet up and have a cold brew and watch the cave paintings. But no.......... there is always some alien creature at the entrance trying to sell me "the latest technology". First it was wheels and then it was pyramids. Like I give a crap about geometry?

 

[Sct13]

That’s Funny!!!

I got new …. Fire…

 

[CB91710]

We're looking at new ones right now. Our Kenmore is 15 years old and has a couple issues. The way the water filter mounts is absolute crap.

Our LG doesn't have a filter.
Nice, because we're not locked in to a proprietary filter.
Ran a braided hose from the wall up into the top cabinet, connected the filter with a ball valve, and ran a hose back down to the fridge.
Standard fittings so if the "Woder" filter I got from Amazon isn't available, I can go with any other filter.

 

[rcole_sooner]

Our Whirlpool has both water and air filters. The air filters are dirt cheap. I get knock off water filters off Amazon and they are not bad.

 

[Sct13]

We need filters out here…

 

[CB91710]

We need filters out here…

I can scoop sand out of my toilet tank.
My faucet screens need to be cleaned about every 6 months.

And we are *not* on well-water... at least not locally... but it's obvious that Metropolitan is sourcing our water from local wells.

 

[Sct13]

We have, Iron, Iron Oxide, Sulfur, Calcium and trace....get this....Arsenic ....But after the Culligan Water Filtration thingy ....with 4 micro filters the size of anti-tank shells and the intake sulfur particulate filter....And the water softener I have to fill with salt pellets every other month...

I need to drink bottled water,

....because ....there is extra sodium in the water now because its softened before the filter ? then there is the fridge filter....

However the well water is potable, it just tastes irony with a slight back taste of matches....hence the crazy filtration and added sodium....

 

[rcole_sooner]

I can scoop sand out of my toilet tank.
My faucet screens need to be cleaned about every 6 months.

And we are *not* on well-water... at least not locally... but it's obvious that Metropolitan is sourcing our water from local wells.

Yeah, I had to add a sand filter just before our water softener at our old place with a well. The white string filter would turn red within a day or 2, but would keep working for at least 6 months. I changed every 3 months or so. Cut way down on the sand.

Our water in Norman could have Arsenic or Fluoride, both if too high are bad. But mostly those were higher in the deeper commercial wells.

I never did get our well tested, I just trusted the well folks to get us clean water. Been drinking well water the vast majority of my life, no since in worrying now. Of course, now we are on city water ... tastes like chlorine. I've tasted way worse, so I'll take it.

I never could taste the salt from the water softener, but it did affect our Keurig. I had to use bottled water in the Keurig as it would clog with our "salted" softened water.

 

[CB91710]

Yeah, I had to add a sand filter just before our water softener at our old place with a well. The white string filter would turn red within a day or 2, but would keep working for at least 6 months. I changed every 3 months or so. Cut way down on the sand.

Our water in Norman could have Arsenic or Fluoride, both if too high are bad. But mostly those were higher in the deeper commercial wells.

I never did get our well tested, I just trusted the well folks to get us clean water. Been drinking well water the vast majority of my life, no since in worrying now. Of course, now we are on city water ... tastes like chlorine. I've tasted way worse, so I'll take it.

I never could taste the salt from the water softener, but it did affect our Keurig. I had to use bottled water in the Keurig as it would clog with our "salted" softened water.

I've many times considered adding a pair of small filters on our service entrance to clear out the larger particles.
I put in an Amazon "Woder" under-sink inline on the cold water when I installed a nice faucet with the pull-down sprayer.
But we do OK on water heaters. We moved in here in '94, the tank was a 10-year tank IIRC. It never failed, but was REALLY noisy for many years and I was getting nervous about it since it's upstairs and replaced it in 2008 or 2009.
Replaced it with a Sears 12 year. That one never got to be too noisy, but last fall the burner started to fail to light. I could shut it down, relight the pilot, and the burner would kick on, but after shutting down it wouldn't relight.
Still, we got our 12 years out of it.

I don't know how they treat the water in my office, but all I do is run it through a Brita pitcher, and after 3 years my Keurig never asked to be de-scaled. I did it just for good measure last month.

 

[Brek]

The system is beyond broke. The major international companies have a dominant position and are making huge, I mean really huge profits, and it's at the expense of the infrastructure. It's not good, at all. the standard for the UK right now is up to a 28-day wait for an engineer visit. I try to buy German for my kitchen appliances except in the 20 years since I left retail, there are no companies making stuff in Germany anymore. With the exception of brands like Gaganua whose products 20 years ago were the best of the best. No idea if still the same. Now we are forced to deal with Korean and Chinese-made goods, rather shitty all in all. Product support is limited to 6 years now (in law).

 

[CB91710]

The system is beyond broke. The major international companies have a dominant position and are making huge, I mean really huge profits, and it's at the expense of the infrastructure. It's not good, at all. the standard for the UK right now is up to a 28-day wait for an engineer visit. I try to buy German for my kitchen appliances except in the 20 years since I left retail, there are no companies making stuff in Germany anymore. With the exception of brands like Gaganua whose products 20 years ago were the best of the best. No idea if still the same. Now we are forced to deal with Korean and Chinese-made goods, rather shitty all in all. Product support is limited to 6 years now (in law).

Similar here. The old stand-by companies still make a few premium models in the US, but you have to be careful.
Bosch hasn't been the same since they became little more than a holding company.

This guy has a pretty good channel covering the situation

https://www.youtube.com/@bensappliancesandjunk