My backyard was all deck and the dog had no place to “go” . Sawed out an L at one corner and placed 8” of crushed stone and sand then Astro turfed it . Yes the stadium grade grass is crazy money , but it looks great and never needs mowed .
So....a couple of questions to the brain trust here...
1. I have a bunch of cables from BELL and ROGERS that are running on the outside of the house. Should I snip them and get rid of them? The only thing we're doing right now is ROGERS for internet. No Bell or Rogers phone lines anywhere in the house.
2. Power line to the house...how can I move that mast OFF the wall a few inches? Want to look into getting siding installed...but the damn thing is right against the house. I'll assume I need an electrician to move it off 2-3" off the wall?
3. While I was spraying my garage ceiling I got some spray onto the plexiglass and exterior of the garage door. I want to paint the door. How can I remove the over spray off the plexiglass? I will sand down the doors, but not sure how to deal with the windows. Remove them and install new?
So....a couple of questions to the brain trust here...
1. I have a bunch of cables from BELL and ROGERS that are running on the outside of the house. Should I snip them and get rid of them? The only thing we're doing right now is ROGERS for internet. No Bell or Rogers phone lines anywhere in the house.
2. Power line to the house...how can I move that mast OFF the wall a few inches? Want to look into getting siding installed...but the damn thing is right against the house. I'll assume I need an electrician to move it off 2-3" off the wall?
3. While I was spraying my garage ceiling I got some spray onto the plexiglass and exterior of the garage door. I want to paint the door. How can I remove the over spray off the plexiglass? I will sand down the doors, but not sure how to deal with the windows. Remove them and install new?
1) recently, bell dug my (and everyone on the street) yard, to install fibre to the house. There's 30' of excess. It scattered. I rolled it up and zip tied it to itself. I only suggested that, in case future.
2) no, but I've done several that way. Check around, you'll see some (older homes of course).
My 7yo Samsung French door refrigerator recently became possessed and decided that the refrigerator portion wasn’t cold enough and so froze everything in there. Found this out by hearing a small explosion of a pop can in the fridge one day just for fun. Technician is here and says we are doing well as the life expectancy of these (really expensive!) refrigerators is 6.5-7y. Thermistor panel is going to be replaced. If the part is in stock it won’t cost a lot.
My 7yo Samsung French door refrigerator recently became possessed and decided that the refrigerator portion wasn’t cold enough and so froze everything in there. Found this out by hearing a small explosion of a pop can in the fridge one day just for fun. Technician is here and says we are doing well as the life expectancy of these (really expensive!) refrigerators is 6.5-7y. Thermistor panel is going to be replaced. If the part is in stock it won’t cost a lot.
Asked the tech for recommendations for a new fridge. “Get the cheapest one with the features you want, they are all the same. They will all last 5-7 years now”.
Asked the tech for recommendations for a new fridge. “Get the cheapest one with the features you want, they are all the same. They will all last 5-7 years now”.
Asked the tech for recommendations for a new fridge. “Get the cheapest one with the features you want, they are all the same. They will all last 5-7 years no
If gov't really cared about the environment instead of just pretending, they could make durable goods have a reasonable warranty (eg 10 years). If manufacturers were on the hook to keep them running for a decade, design would improve. Right now they are incentivized to make fancy crap you throw out often. I think Australia is the closest to this as you can argue that it wasn't fit for purpose if it failed in less time than expected. No explicit length of time laid out but you are free to make a claim after warranty has expired.
Based on the wording below, I think you have a reasonable case for a decade for durable goods. Maybe their interpretation doesn't agree with me though. Considering that most appliances built in the 80's are still working with minimal repairs along the way, it's hard for a manufacturer to whine that five years is a reasonable lifetime or they are constrained by engineering and can't do better.
Information on guarantees and consumer rights under a manufacturer’s warranty (warranty against defects), express warranty and extended warranty.
www.consumer.vic.gov.au
Example only (outcome may differ in individual cases):
Matt buys a television for $6,000. It stops working two years later. The supplier tells him he has no rights to repairs or another remedy as the television was only covered under the manufacturer’s warranty for 12 months.
Even if Matt had purchased an extended warranty, he may still have the right to a remedy under the ACL because a reasonable person would expect a $6,000 television to last longer than two years. Matt has a statutory right to a remedy on the basis that the television is not of acceptable quality and the supplier must provide a remedy free of charge.
Understand Australian Consumer Law and your business obligations and rights under it.
business.gov.au
There is no specific time when the consumer guarantees no longer apply to products. They may apply even after the manufacturer's warranty period has past. The length of the consumer guarantee period depends on a number of factors including:
how much time has passed since the consumer bought the product
the type of product
how a consumer is likely to use the product
the length of time for which it is reasonable for the product to be used
the amount of use it could reasonably be expected to tolerate before the failure becomes noticeable.
I'm a fan of simple electronics / appliances. All of the ones I've seen with fancy gizmos in them fail in short order.
Older tech = less to break.
As for warranty...cousin recently bought an 80" TV for 4k or so. TV had a single line that was dead pixels the full length. He complained to Best Buy and they sent a tech over. 'Yup it's broken'
Gets a gift card for a new one.
Time for new one comes and he tells BB 'when you coming to my house to pick it up?'
'We can't due to COVID. But feel free to throw it out'
'OK...'
New TV shows up in the store
'well now it's $300 less than I bought it for'
'OK. Here's a gift card for another $300'
'Cool thanks'
'Did you throw out the old tv?'
'Yup...sure did'
If gov't really cared about the environment instead of just pretending, they could make durable goods have a reasonable warranty (eg 10 years). If manufacturers were on the hook to keep them running for a decade, design would improve. Right now they are incentivized to make fancy crap you throw out often. I think Australia is the closest to this as you can argue that it wasn't fit for purpose if it failed in less time than expected. No explicit length of time laid out but you are free to make a claim after warranty has expired.
Based on the wording below, I think you have a reasonable case for a decade for durable goods. Maybe their interpretation doesn't agree with me though. Considering that most appliances built in the 80's are still working with minimal repairs along the way, it's hard for a manufacturer to whine that five years is a reasonable lifetime or they are constrained by engineering and can't do better.
Information on guarantees and consumer rights under a manufacturer’s warranty (warranty against defects), express warranty and extended warranty.
www.consumer.vic.gov.au
Example only (outcome may differ in individual cases):
Matt buys a television for $6,000. It stops working two years later. The supplier tells him he has no rights to repairs or another remedy as the television was only covered under the manufacturer’s warranty for 12 months.
Even if Matt had purchased an extended warranty, he may still have the right to a remedy under the ACL because a reasonable person would expect a $6,000 television to last longer than two years. Matt has a statutory right to a remedy on the basis that the television is not of acceptable quality and the supplier must provide a remedy free of charge.
Understand Australian Consumer Law and your business obligations and rights under it.
business.gov.au
There is no specific time when the consumer guarantees no longer apply to products. They may apply even after the manufacturer's warranty period has past. The length of the consumer guarantee period depends on a number of factors including:
how much time has passed since the consumer bought the product
the type of product
how a consumer is likely to use the product
the length of time for which it is reasonable for the product to be used
the amount of use it could reasonably be expected to tolerate before the failure becomes noticeable.
If the ancient electronics on the space station can keep ticking after all this time then I’m absolutely certain they can make modern appliances that are designed to last…they actively choose not to! It pisses me off.
I will never own a Samsung appliance , multiple sources say parts not replaceable, not available, cost to repair equal to a new appliance . Nope , I will buy anything else
I will never own a Samsung appliance , multiple sources say parts not replaceable, not available, cost to repair equal to a new appliance . Nope , I will buy anything else
Normally I’m with you. This time I’m lucky, the part is $120. It’s a panel with the thermistor and fan attached in one unit. No compressor issues! I’m just hoping the ice and water supply isn’t fubarred as I switched the water tap off at the connector once I saw things were freezing up badly. Switched it on briefly after the tech left to see if it may have thawed but no water coming through. My guess is the filter is frozen.
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