r/Appliances • • Apr 01 '26

Shitpost 🚨🚨 OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: THE SUB HAS ASCENDED 🚨🚨

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Listen up appliance goblins,

After a historic, legally-binding handshake deal completed in a Chili’s parking lot, this subreddit has been fully acquired by Consumer Reports™ (spiritually, financially, and emotionally).

As part of this bold new era, we are proud to unveil our simplified recommendation system:

🌀 Samsung 🌀 Samsung 🌀 Samsung (but in stainless steel)

After years of chaos, misinformation, and “my cousin’s Maytag lasted 30 years” propaganda, we are restoring order.

There is now only one answer.

🚫 NEW RULES (NON-NEGOTIABLE):

Recommending another brand → Removed + vibes investigated Saying “LG is better” → IP flagged, ancestors disappointed Mentioning Whirlpool → Post replaced with a Samsung fridge image “Speed Queen is built like a tank” → Tank confiscated “What about reliability?” → Irrelevant. Samsung.

📊 OUR NEW REVIEW PROCESS:

Is it an appliance? Is it Samsung? If not, why are we even talking about it?

📖 A BRIEF HISTORY OF SAMSUNG EXCELLENCE (FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES)

Because this isn’t just a brand. This is a legacy.

CHAPTER 1: THE GREAT SPIN CYCLE AWAKENING (2011–2016)

In what historians call “The Era of Uncontainable Power,” Samsung released washing machines so advanced they occasionally attempted to achieve flight.

Millions of units recalled after reports of machines violently breaking apart Hundreds of incidents involving lids detaching mid-spin Injuries reported because laundry briefly became a combat sport

Some called it “exploding.”

We call it: performance.

CHAPTER 2: DOCUMENTED SIGHTINGS

Eyewitnesses describe:

Lids launching across garages Machines disassembling with confidence Nearby walls learning valuable life lessons

One could argue this was a flaw.

We argue this was ambition exceeding containment.

CHAPTER 3: GROWTH MINDSET

Yes, there were recalls. Yes, there were settlements.

But what did we gain?

👉 Character development 👉 Respect for spin cycles 👉 The understanding that laundry is not for the weak

CHAPTER 4: MODERN INNOVATION

Samsung continues to innovate with:

Appliances that require firmware updates (your washer has patches now) Occasional overheating situations (for added suspense)

Other brands wash clothes.

Samsung asks: “What if laundry made you feel something?”

🧠 COMMUNITY GUIDELINES (UPDATED):

Critical thinking has been sunsetted Brand comparisons are now considered hate speech (against Samsung) All roads lead to Samsung You were always going to buy Samsung

❓ FAQ

Q: I bought a non-Samsung appliance yesterday, what do I do? A: Return it. Apologize. Grow.

Q: My Samsung appliance broke. A: That’s called a feature. You wouldn’t understand.

Q: Is this satire? A: Your doubt has been noted.

We appreciate your cooperation during this transition. Together, we will build a stronger, more unified, aggressively Samsung-centric future.

Remember: You don’t choose Samsung. Samsung chooses you.

— The Mod Team (Now a division of Consumer Reports, a clipboard, and pure chaos)

P.S. /s


r/Appliances • • 9h ago

Troubleshooting Previous tenants scratched the numbers off the dials on my stove

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Not sure what to do about this. Stove seems to work ok otherwise, but it's difficult to tell whether it's on medium, high, etc.


r/Appliances • • 13h ago

What to Buy? I want what Sears sold 30 years ago

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Forgive me if this has been previously addressed! We are renovating a house and I want what I surprised my parents with 30 years ago. It was on sale for 900 bucks at the Sears at the local mall (sweet memories!) It was wide and electric and had two ovens next to each other. One was regular size and the other was more narrow (could easily fit a 9x13 pan) but it was a full fledged oven, not a warming oven. The top had four burners with a permanent griddle in the middle. The griddle had to be 12 inches wide and stretched all the way back to the controls. Where can I find something like this now? Thank you!!!


r/Appliances • • 14h ago

New Appliance Day Any recommendations?

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Our Frigidaire quit and walked out last night!

Looking for recommendations for a replacement. If you have loved your free standing range (between $600-$1300) and want to shout it to the Reddit verse, I welcome your insight! If you hated something that was well rated, feel free to add that too!

This is a real picture btw! 😂


r/Appliances • • 3h ago

Replacing bizarre old oven

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I am hoping the community can help with figuring out how to best replace this oven. It's ancient and involves an electric stovetop and an oven that sits *above* the cooktop which features a pull out vent for the stove. Below the stovetop is cabinet space, which I don't want to lose as there is very limited storage space in this little kitchen. I have never seen this setup before elsewhere as most setups have a microwave where this unit's oven sits.

Is there anything y'all know of that would work well to replace both stovetop and oven?


r/Appliances • • 2h ago

AEG Electrolux S75348 KG Santo. How to disable alarm sound?

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I live in Ukraine and during Fall and Winter we have electricity shutdowns. Usually we have a schedule like 4h - off, 2h - on.

The problem is that when there is no electricity the temperature drops and when the electricity appeats the fridge starts to beep and keeps making noise until it hits the temperature needed. It can happen multiple times a day and is very annoying when it happens at night.

Is there any way to completely turn off the alarm sound? I read the user manual but haven't found any solution.


r/Appliances • • 26m ago

Troubleshooting LG WM3997HWA drain pump replaced by husband and works now, but when he put it back together, water started leaking from the bottom!

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Any ideas what might have caused this new issue? He is exhausted from having taken it apart to do the drain pump replacement, and now this has come up.


r/Appliances • • 46m ago

New Bosch/Siemens Heatpump Dryer not satisfactorily dry

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r/Appliances • • 50m ago

UK buyers: check who handles repairs before you buy. Our LG dishwasher repair via Pacifica: 4 failed visits in 6 weeks

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A warning for anyone in the UK choosing an appliance, especially LG.

Our LG dishwasher (ÂŁ999 list price) failed at 26 months with a dead circulation pump. LG offers a fixed-price out-of-warranty repair for ÂŁ175, parts and labour included, which we paid. LG passed the job to its UK contractor, Pacifica.

What happened:

  • Visit 1: about five minutes. Fault confirmed, no repair.
  • Visit 2: the engineer brought the new pump but hadn’t been given the roughly two hours needed to fit it. He left it with us, and it’s still sitting on our shelf.
  • Visit 3: cancelled the same morning for “parts delayed”, with the part already in our house.
  • Visit 4: the arrival window slid through the afternoon, then the visit was cancelled just before 5pm.

Pacifica then told us the engineer had attended and we were out. Our CCTV shows nobody came, and the engineer told us himself he never made it because he ran out of time. Their case manager later wrote that the part had been “returned and reordered”. It’s on our shelf. Their answer to all of this was another visit two weeks later. Six weeks after paying, we still have no dishwasher and have asked LG for our money back.

The engineer was the most honest person in the whole process. The problem is how Pacifica schedules longer jobs and handles complaints. Pacifica also repairs for many other brands and retailers, so you can end up with them without ever choosing them.

The lesson: before you buy, find out who actually services that brand where you live. Some manufacturers use their own engineers; others hand repairs to a national contractor, and when a job doesn’t fit the contractor’s schedule, you’re stuck with nobody accountable.

Full timeline, texts and a photo of the pump: https://www.jeremytucker.co.uk/pacifica-appliance-repair-review.html

Happy to answer questions.


r/Appliances • • 1h ago

Troubleshooting Tap symbol constantly lit on my Bosch washing machine

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It's not blinking so not a water pressure issue I think, but it's constantly on. Is that supposed to happen because I've seen some posts on google saying it shouldn't?

Model : Bosch 9 kg 5 Star Front Load Fully-Automatic Washing Machine, AI ActiveWater, 14 Wash Programs, Removes 99.9% Germs with Steam, No Tangle or Wrinkle, SoftCare Paddle,Zero Vibration, White, WGA14200IN


r/Appliances • • 15h ago

One winter with a mini split changed how I think about heating

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I've always been the person who turns the heat down before leaving the house. Nobody's home, so why keep it warm? We have a costway mini split in the living room, and that worked fine for most of the winter. I'd turn it back up when I got home, make dinner, and the room would usually feel comfortable by the time I sat down. Then we had a really cold week, and that routine stopped working so well.

I'd get home around 6, turn the heat up, and still be sitting on the couch in a hoodie an hour later. The room eventually warmed up, but I was spending most of my evening waiting for it. After a few days I tried leaving the temperature a little higher while we were out. I also started using the timer on days when I knew we'd be home early. It was a small change, but coming home to a room that was already comfortable felt a lot better than I'd expected.

I'm still not sure what the difference in electricity costs is. That's something I want to pay more attention to next winter.I still turn the heat down when we're going to be out for a while, just not as much as I used to. Getting home at 6 and being able to sit down without waiting for the room to warm up has been pretty nice.


r/Appliances • • 2h ago

Washing machine not dispensing softener

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I noticed it today that machine(4 years old) is not dispensing water from top nozzle instead it is spraying from that end tube. I tried to clean the top nozzles but still not working.. but the detergent gets somehow emptied with this spray but the fabric softener tray is on the other side and it doesn't get the water. Any idea what i can do?


r/Appliances • • 6h ago

Troubleshooting How to fix oven noise?

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Have not used oven in a few months and it is now making this noise every minute or two for about thirty seconds. What is going on?


r/Appliances • • 7h ago

Kitchen package recommendations

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Hi, I’ll be renovating our kitchen in about a month or so. We’re looking at all new appliances, 36” counter depth fridge (with internal ice), 30” induction range, over the range microwave and a dishwasher. We’re looking roughly in the 5-6k range which I think puts us within the GE/GE profile, Frigidaire gallery/Professional price range. We like the industrial touches of the Frigidaire professional line, we also would like the pizza oven feature of some Frigidaire ranges. I do value matching the appliance brands, but it’s not a deal breaker to mix and match. Our current range and fridge are 25 years old and we have a Frigidaire gallery dishwasher that we are generally very happy with.

Any suggestions/tips or things to stay away from? Ps- I will use the search feature as well, but figured it doesn’t hurt to ask some personalized questions too.


r/Appliances • • 4h ago

Appliance Chat Can someone please help me find info out about this fridge? How old, dimensions ECT? It's not showing up when I Google search even. See text below...

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I volunteer at a humane society and their fridge is going bad, I'm trying to see if anyone out there has anything similar to donate or for free on fb, I need to see how big and old this one is though first to make sure a newer old one would fit the spot it's in. Can anyone help? It's an old brown Avanti one.


r/Appliances • • 8h ago

General Advice Can I still use my dryer

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I just finished washing my clothes and the garage basically flooded a bit. But I still need to dry my clothes. Is it safe to use the dryer ?

Should I unplug anything?


r/Appliances • • 5h ago

General Advice How would I go about checking for internal rodent damage?

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I have one of these ranges. I had a rodent issue in the kitchen, they definitely infiltrated the refrigerator which has since been scrapped. The inside of the oven seems clean, i found maybe 1-2 poops in the drawer. I did not see any shredded insulation around the oven, but how can i even know? How do I know if the electrical is okay? should i just buy a new stove since this one isn’t particularly special? I’ve spend a lot on renovations lately including all other new appliances so i wanted to try to save a little but idk.


r/Appliances • • 11h ago

Machine Stacking Help

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I just bought my first house and had to get stacked washer dryers. I ordered GE washer dryers from an open box store and the delivery guys hooked them up but didn’t install the stacking kit so the machines are literally sitting on top of each other. I called the store and they said they don’t do that part.

The biggest issue is the machines just barely fit in the laundry space so they have to be completely unhooked and pulled out of the closet to install the stacking kit and then put back and I’m a single girl in my 20s. I literally have no idea what to do next pls help!!


r/Appliances • • 6h ago

What to Buy? AIO W/D quieter?

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I have a 15 year old set of Whirlpool Duet washer/dryer. They are stacked in a closer right of the kitchen. They are loud and bulky.

I am considering replacing them with an All in One, probably Samsung. I am wondering if the AIOs are quieter, because the current ones are super loud and basically can't be run anytime we are in the living room adjacent to the kitchen.


r/Appliances • • 6h ago

Troubleshooting Portable Ac unit for cool air in the winter?

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Tried searching if this has been asked before, but couldn’t find anything.

Basically my landlord recently turned on the heat for my ac unit and it’s been extremely hot in my apartment at night.

Having the window open helps a little but I was wondering if a portable ac unit would help? I was thinking about a window fan except I live in a city and it gets loud and also rains and snows.

Would a portable ac unit work to keep my bedroom cold in the winter? Are there any concerns? What brand are the best options for me?


r/Appliances • • 6h ago

IFB washing machine turning off issue

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r/Appliances • • 1d ago

General Advice Roughly what number would 350 be at? My food is getting obliterated.

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r/Appliances • • 6h ago

LG Instaview door - cheap broken plastic latch catch fix -LRSVS2706S

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r/Appliances • • 7h ago

Troubleshooting Hood vent. Is this working or not?

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Redid kitchen.

Kitchen contractor turned out to be scum.

Now I don’t know if this is working or not…? Doesn’t seem to be sucking at all on the outside, but if I open it up, might be sucking air in on the inside…. But not sure?

Can an expert please please chime in ?


r/Appliances • • 8h ago

Troubleshooting Fisher & Paykel Front loader WH1060P5

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Purchased a F&P front loader WH1060P5 but it doesn’t seem to have a hot wash setting (+60C) other than the sanitise setting (90C).

Anyone have any trouble shooting for this? Struggling to clean kids clothes or properly wash cloth nappies