A Hoover that sucks? heh

Ugh all appliances are such crap now. I want an old vacuum that lasts a lifetime from the 80s. They were much better.

Im imagine the “made in Britain” scene from the IT crowd

Garage drink fridge is the most underrated luxury item out there. Total life changer.

Obviously look for signs for garage sales 😜

Start a tech company. They spawn garages as part of their "backstory" stage.

Most people will opt to buy the less expensive one every few years, either for economic reasons, or because they feel that it is a better deal to replace the $400 fridge every five years than to pay thirty times the price for a high-end/professional unit.

Unless they live to be 170+ (assuming they're 20 when they buy their own fridge) the $400 one every 5 years is definitely a better deal than one that lasts a lifetime and costs 30x as much.

"$10k+"

Do you think that's how much those refrigerators used to cost? They were "$100+".

This isn't a good comparison. No one in the working class and probably even the middle class can afford a 10k+ refrigerator.

Of course there are good quality products, but it's not like normal people can afford them anymore.

This is not what people "opt" to buy. This is all that people can afford to buy.

You don't need to go that far for a fridge. Just buy the most generic, ugly-ass freezer on the top unit without an icemaker or water dispensor. Almost every brand still makes one.

The primary failure modes of the current fridges are primarily related to the extreme lengths we go to in order to install ice makers in the door and freezers on the bottom. You put the freezer in the top with a temp sensor and just gate how much air is allowed to flow down into the fridge with a physical baffle, all you need to go right is a single pressure loop, a shitty compressor, a thermometer, a capacitor you can replace, maybe a PTC thermistor or a relay.

Clothes washers and dryers are an excellent use for your advice, though. You need to get something around the quality of a Speed Queen to get that done. Almost no features, sturdy buttons, and few electronics. But we want front-opening washers that require perfect seals and fancy door locks, with 200 options for every possible situation. Those door locks and gaskets wear down, and those horizontal drums don't stay balanced well.

Dishwashers are a whole different problem. Commercial versions are either specialized for a certain type of dish or are just a human with a dish rag and a sponge.

I have the most generic POS dishwasher. It fails every two years because the wash pump gives out. It has three timer cycles, a heated dry, a wash pump, a drain pump, a turbidity sensor, and a float sensor. Every two years, I pop onto Amazon and buy another $30 circulator pump, I can install it now in about 10 minutes and leave the wrench required to do it under the sink.

What's the cause? it's a 30/10 pump, supposed to run for 30 minutes and cool for 10. The washer runs it for 45/5 twice. I cannot get a direct replacement that can handle those constraints, so it eventually stops working or runs poorly enough to get the dishes clean, and I replace it.

I've considered replacing the brain with an arduino or a pi. Would be kinda cool to really lean into the turbitity sensor and just wash until clean or text me when it's done.

If you're being serious try shimming it, determine where the noise is and chuck a block between. My brand new Whirlpool rattles because the floor is uneven so I have a small piece of wood between the floor and front bottom piece which takes care of it.

Smart fridges will die faster because it has much more tech that can go wrong.

What I would save in electric cost does not make buying a new one worth it.

I'd look very carefully at those numbers.

All the plastic shelves they all have now break anyway, as well as the shitty plastic drawers. The drawers on mine all broke, and the jazz board died twice. Waste of money. I'd rather buy an old one on Marketplace.

Don't cheap out on your Lamborghinis, just build a second garage for them or your refrigerator!

I wish people would stop buying the "smart" appliances. You can still get normal ones that last, but they're getting harder to find, and more expensive