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    3 days ago

    Please upvote this comment so it gets visibility. I just want people to hear this.

    European brands in America are not good. They are few and far between and are very difficult to repairs when and if they break.

    There are a few exceptions like Bosch dishwashers which are very prevalent in America. Don’t get the others recommended in this comments thread. At the very least in America they’re hard to repair hard to get parts for and are extremely expensive you are much better off sticking with American brands.

    What you want to avoid is whirlpool and Samsung. Everything else is fine hands down Whirlpool makes the worst appliances they are truly terrible and should not be purchased under any circumstance. Samsung makes the worst refrigerator worse than even whirlpool. The other appliances to Samsung makes are very mediocre although I will admit their washers and dryers are not bad.

    In my opinion LG makes the best appliances in America right now because I service very very little of them. If I do up the service them it can be a little difficult to find parts for them but I still recommend them me

    GE is very middle of the road and generally a good option for anything that you want to get they make appliances that are absolutely not the worst but also not necessarily the best.

    Stick with the major brands don’t get one off European brands here in America they’re not worth it.




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    3 days ago

    No. That’s not what’s happening here.

    And just for the record I am an appliance repair tech for the last 20 years.

    Hands down appliances from the early 90s to about the 2010s are significantly better than new appliances today.

    They are better in everyway. They were made under a different philosophy, they were made to be fixed.

    When I stated my career in 2004 I would have a box of common parts that would break for each kind of appliance I would service. Fridge, washer, dryer ext. I wouldn’t have to order a part for weeks. I would just drive down to the parts supplier stock up and move on to my next work order. Now all I do is order proprietary parts that are dedicated to one specific model number.

    The materials and build quality of older appliances far exceeds that of new ones so much so that I am actually recommending to my clients that they try to find a used appliance rather than buy a new one because it’ll probably last longer.

    And I’ve had this argument so many times already on this platform the savings on energy are absolutely negligible. They can easily be ignored. To clarify the way they notate change in energy is by percentages so it’ll appear that an appliance is saving 70% more energy but in reality that saving is stretched across 365 days which equates to maybe 25 to 30 cents of savings a day. Or it’ll look like you’re saving 400 kilowatt hours but again stretched across 365 days that’s just over 1 kilowatt hour a day.

    The only caveat is the fact that washers use less water which can actually turn into some kind of savings over the course of the year because your water heater will have to heat less water but that’s about it.

    Generally I fix appliances that are less than 10 years old most of those are refrigerators the extreme vast majority of those are Samsung appliances.