Bad news for me. My dishwasher, AC and boiler are from 1983. Washer and dryer not far behind. I did replace the hot water heater because I couldn’t get insurance coverage for the old one.
You should be able to pull up a diagram of parts on the manufacturer’s website if you look up by model number.
Thanks. I’ve tried. There is a model number on our receipt and owner’s manual, but the appliance dealer told me I needed to be more specific and find the number on the refrigerator. I wasn’t able to locate a number - maybe it’s on the back against the wall. There are a lot of extraneous letters and numbers added to the basic model designation when I look for parts.
I do not like this refrigerator at all, our appliances are all stainless steel but the sides of this refrigerator aren’t black, it’s an ugly textured gray and one side is exposed next to our counter. I think it was a lemon the dealer had and dumped on us. But it keeps our food cold and it was an emergency purchase. We didn’t have many choices because we built our kitchen over 30 years ago and needed something that would fit.
First world problems, right? We bought it from the same appliance company that sold us the high end LG stacked washer/dryer unit. We live so remotely we have to take what we can get. At least they service the appliances they sell.
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We just had to emergency replace our water heater. Even going down in size to 50 gal, it was $3800 
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$3967. In January. Emergency. Mine is at least 65 gal. The original one that came with the condo was 80. This was a difficult install; they had to undo a lot of mistakes from the old one, which replaced the original one.
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Can relate. We had exactly one, and only one, option that fit when our kitchen fridge expired earlier this year. Our kitchen is too compact to reconfigure easily without an expensive redo of cabinets and flooring.
Sighing right along with you.
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My kitchen aid has room for another door bin too. I read some question and answers where someone was asking for the part number for the shelf so they could buy an extra one to fill that space. A KA rep responded that it is not recommended to put one there because they test the door for weigh and adding an extra bin might cause weight issues. I still might get one and just be mindful of how much total weight I put in door.
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Thanks for that perspective. Our refrigerator bit the dust during a period of time when we weren’t cooking very often - we noticed the failure chiefly because things in the freezer drawer had thawed. We had no idea how long stuff had been warmer than they should have been and so we had to toss everything because we didn’t want to get sick.
We have a septic system, so dumping stuff down the drain wasn’t going to do us any favors. I had to strain jars and jars of condiments to catch the residue. It took a couple of days to empty everything. Then of course, we were left with no essentials. Fortunately we have a bar fridge, so we had a place for creamer and cheese. We went to an appliance store, but all of the options were taller/wider than would fit in our kitchen. So we ended up with our only option.
We’re a household of 2. We’re retired - can shop when we want. And we have lived with a small refrigerator before when DH worked in Europe. So - it is what it is. But I really miss our old one.
Had that happen one morning as I was making ready to travel to Germany that evening. Wonderful timing, these appliances have. My wife was in the basement and yelled up, “there’s water all over down here”. It was leaking badly out the bottom. Called a friend and he and I got the old one drained and out, taking longer than needed(*), and got the new one installed just about an hour before I had to head to the airport.
(*) It seemed drainage was taking way too long, and I’m standing there staring at it and finally it hit me - they’d piped the blasted thing backwards! So the cold water cutoff valve was actually on the hot water side, and my trying to drain it was just a waste of time (and water) with the fresh water continuously replacing what I was draining. So I had to shut off the whole-house valve to get the job done (and piped correctly this time).
We’d lived there several years and I always felt like it ran out of hot water too soon. That’s when I found out why - with it piped backwards the hot was being drawn off the bottom and the fresh cold was being splashed into the top.
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The things we consider necessities. I remember my paternal great uncle who lived in rural Ohio and stored food in an oak icebox lined with metal - kept cold with a block of ice. It had a drainage spigot at the bottom of it. My father used to buy his ice and groceries.
And my maternal grandparents - in rural Indiana - no plumbing in their house. They had a hand pump in the kitchen, kept a bucket with a ladle for drinking water and when we took baths there we’d take them in a giant galvanized tub with water heated from a wood burning stove. And - yep - they had the proverbial outhouse. My brothers & I were fascinated as kids to visit them back in the 50’s.
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That’s what my mom’s family grew up with before they moved into town so my grandmother could be near the school where she taught. They weren’t poor - that’s just what the state of infrastructure was. No electricity, no gas, no indoor plumbing …however, my great-grandfather was the builder of the first house in the parish (for a prominent family) with indoor plumbing. The house is a B and B and event space today.
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I never had the sense we were poor when I was a kid, either. When you think about it, the 50’s were only a couple of decades up from the Great Depression, and rural infrastructure was much different from urban life, as you say. My parents were both involved in Scouting - Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. All of us grew up with that in our lives. Our experiences from that seemed a natural extension of the way our grandparents lived. I consider myself fortunate to have learned lessons in adapting to less than optimal situations because of Scouts.
But I still hate our new refrigerator…
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Well, I definitely “Jinxed” myself…
When I got up yesterday morning, my computer would not connect to the internet. After testing the modem, cable, etc.; I determined the ethernet card (NIC) had stopped working. Not that big a deal to replace it, as I always seem to have “spare parts” laying around here. Moreover, it gave me a chance to blow the dust out of my desktop computer.
Then I jumped into my old work truck (to run some errands) turned the key and… nothing. After some quick diagnosis, I determined the starter had bit the dust. Replacing the starter took quite a bit longer than the NIC card in the computer.
OK… That’s two problems fixed, bring on number 3… I’m ready!!
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Bravo. That is some next-level resourcefulness.
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Is it the space where an ice or water dispenser would go? If the unit had one?
Could be? That’s optimistic.
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Thanks for mentioning the hard water aspect. My cousin in Germany had a tankless in the guest house where we stayed because it saves a lot of power. But back home we have really hard water as well and I wondered about that. Otherwise I’d put a couple in my house.
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Does’nt look like it. We have an ice maker in the bottom freezer drawer, but no water or ice dispenser in the refrigerator door.
Congratulations Handy Man Dan! Happy New Year!
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With all the likes here, I say: there’s a clamor in America to see us fixing things. Get a producer (and displace one of those inane home remodel shows).
Not that it will inspire many to tackle fixing much, but it’s cool knowing there are “fixers” (TM!) like you out there.
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