On Tuesday, 13 October 2015 19:08:28 UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:
nt:
polygonum wrote
nt wrote
polygonum wrote
MM wrote

"Every" ten years? Just how long do you expect your
machine to last? Judging by what I see, heard and
read, more than 19 years would be a miracle.

I've had many miracles then.

How many? Seems a bit odd to have machines which last so
long and yet to have had two or more of them. Surely if they are
so long-lived, you wouldn't get through many even in a lifetime.

Almost all my household appliances are miracles according
to your definition. Several are multi-miracles.

Yeah, all of my major appliances like dishwasher, wall oven, cooktop,
washing machine, microwave etc have all managed 40+ years. Some
like the original fridge has managed 60 and I stopped using it
because its just too small and has bugger all frozen storage.

No so true of the smaller appliances. Wouldn't like to count how many
toasters I have been thru, dozens of them. Not quite as many of the
small glass convection ovens, but I have only been using them for a
much shorter time. They mostly don't last as long as the toasters and
the current one does get used at about the same frequency, most days.

The old Dualits last well, but little else seems to. No idea if the wildly overpriced modern ones will.

I think the issue is generally that people have no idea how to buy long lasting appliances, and no idea when to repair and when to chuck. Too many people chuck out good stuff to replace it with short lived gimmicky crap.


NT