Appliance Woes- First World Problems

[ShadowCat]

^ being a former public insurance adjuster I can tell you there is GREAT danger with automatic ice makers - every single day an icemaker misfunctions somewhere and floods an entire house - I am talking about a TOTAL LOSS - in a days time the house can up to the rafters in water - once a house takes that kind of water the mold and mildew is instant - I have seen it first hand DOZENS AND DOZENS of times - icemakers are BAD NEWS - if you have one in your freezer ALWAYS disconnect it before leaving town - we have ours perm disabled....

Well I was just talking a counter top you put the water in it and as long as there is water in it it'll make ice its not a permanent thing. We don't have the ice maker that came with it hooked up either we never have had an ice maker hook up and don' wanna start drilling blindly into the floor!

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Basement? Well look atchu Ms Fancy Bij. Does your butler also brang you scrambled eggs and caviar with butter truffle to your boudoir or do you take da elevator downstairs to eat at your kitchen island made from dinosaur bone coated marble?

My kitchen is also my bedroom/living room/wardrobe/storage shed/office and I'm using one half as a Air Bnb.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Rareboy, you sound like you are at least slightly vexed by timing, so why don't you cut a deal with whomever you order one from?

You're obviously going to buy high-end again, so tell the dealer your situation and solicit a promise to send you a floor model or some make-do fridge they have in stock on the 20th if yours doesn't get in before then.

You really can't afford to be in crisis mode that close to the holiday. You're a smart man. Manage your risk with a plan. OR, buy an inexpensive fridge, put it in your garage, and have it there until this one dies or your new one comes, and then donate your inexpensive one to a woman's shelter, a half-way house, a needy neighbor or relative, or similar. Win-win?

 

[rareboy]

Well it is an old farmhouse so it came with a bit of extra space....and the Ontario tradition is that you always had your big freezer either in the garage or the basement in order to keep all the cuts of the moose or deer your bow hunting brother-in-law gives you.

 

[ShadowCat]

Basement? Well look atchu Ms Fancy Bij. Does your butler also brang you scrambled eggs and caviar with butter truffle to your boudoir or do you take da elevator downstairs to eat at your kitchen island made from dinosaur bone coated marble?

My kitchen is also my bedroom/living room/wardrobe/storage shed/office and I'm using one half as a Air Bnb.

Shit girl a basement aint all that and a bag of chips! I got both mold AND asbestos in mine! not to mention I need foundation work because mine has a crack in it and i get water seepage in heavy rain in several spots! I like watching the 3 stooges and in a plumbing we will go Moe declares in the house they are supposed to be working on "This aint a house its a sieve!" That holds true for me in heavy rains! not to mention we get house centipedes (they are like running hair ) not to mention the mildewy smell that seems to permeate everything and Spiders

 

[rareboy]

Rareboy, you sound like you are at least slightly vexed by timing, so why don't you cut a deal with whomever you order one from?

You're obviously going to buy high-end again, so tell the dealer your situation and solicit a promise to send you a floor model or some make-do fridge they have in stock on the 20th if yours doesn't get in before then.

You really can't afford to be in crisis mode that close to the holiday. You're a smart man. Manage your risk with a plan. OR, buy an inexpensive fridge, put it in your garage, and have it there until this one dies or your new one comes, and then donate your inexpensive one to a woman's shelter, a half-way house, a needy neighbor or relative, or similar. Win-win?

You pretty much read my mind.

This was the plan that we had formulated. We will be going in to see the dealer tomorrow to discuss it with them.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Well it is an old farmhouse so it came with a bit of extra space....and the Ontario tradition is that you always had your big freezer either in the garage or the basement in order to keep all the cuts of the moose or deer your bow hunting brother-in-law gives you.

I'm a city girl through and through but I wish I could create an alternate universe where I live on a farm and learn all that cool survival nature stuff you can't learn when there's a Starbucks every 4 buildings. ](,*)

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Shit girl a basement aint all that and a bag of chips! I got both mold AND asbestos in mine! not to mention I need foundation work because mine has a crack in it and i get water seepage in heavy rain in several spots! I like watching the 3 stooges and in a plumbing we will go Moe declares in the house they are supposed to be working on "This aint a house its a sieve!" That holds true for me in heavy rains! not to mention we get house centipedes (they are like running hair ) not to mention the mildewy smell that seems to permeate everything and Spiders

I daydream about the US (assuming you live in the states) doing this great sweep where we fix all homes in this condition, it would create jobs, everybody gets a fresh start with a clean safe home and I can't imagine the amount of recyclable materials that would be discovered. Won't happen for at least a thousand years but a gal can dream.

 

[rareboy]

I'm a city girl through and through but I wish I could create an alternate universe where I live on a farm and learn all that cool survival nature stuff you can't learn when there's a Starbucks every 4 buildings. ](,*)

Who says we don't have a Starbucks outlet on the farm, 4th building from the chicken coop?

I grew up on a farm....blossomed in the big smoke living in the heart of the homo heartland of Toronto and lived there for a decade.... and then this is our life:

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

 

[ShadowCat]

I daydream about the US (assuming you live in the states) doing this great sweep where we fix all homes in this condition, it would create jobs, everybody gets a fresh start with a clean safe home and I can't imagine the amount of recyclable materials that would be discovered. Won't happen for at least a thousand years but a gal can dream.

I wish the US (Illinois- Chicago) would do this as well! It would provide necessary breathing room for my family! We have medical bills, other bills, drugs (insulin and asthma) to buy. Its not like we are going on vacation (been 20 years since we've been any place) we buy food pay bills thats it! But these assholes just keep raising and raising everything so trying to save is a colossal pain in the ass when every time you save you get screwed because X went up so you borrow from Y its a vicious cycle!