Have you recently moved into a new home? Or are you planning to stay in your dream apartment permanently? If yes, then you are indeed making a big decision that will impact your life for years to come.
One major part of this move is to decide whether to buy a new appliance, repair your electrical appliances, or sell parts of appliances such as stoves, washers, dryers, or refrigerators. How does one even determine the right course?
The smart way to approach this decision is to analyze the condition of your current appliances, all of them. Evaluate your stoves, microwave, refrigerator, dishwasher, etc, and assess them in terms of efficiency, durability, and lifespan.
Even if you are planning to sell the used appliances, you need to analyze their worth before you shelve them for your other customers in terms of condition and durability. Because of course, with time the efficiency of the appliance decreases hence, the sooner you sell it the better it is for you.
In addition to this approach, there are certainly other important questions and aspects you need to analyze before you decide whether you will repair or sell off your appliance. So that when you step foot into your new home, you do not have to face the hassle of buying new home appliances or calling a repairman to fix the old ones. Let’s get started.
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1. Figure out and note down the life of the appliances in your home
Usually, the appliances are manufactured to work for at least 1 to 2 decades before they require any maintenance or complete replacement. Hence, if your appliances are more than 15 or 20 years old, you need to hire a maintenance expert to assess their condition after every five years.
And even if you are planning to sell your appliance, there are certain questions you must answer as the owner before you place a price tag over it. You need to assess the appliance’s age, condition, and overall efficiency before you make an offer.
2. Assess the condition of the appliance
We have just discussed the appliance’s age,e which is a basic thumb rule of analyzing whether the appliance needs repairing or replacement. Even the appliances such as refrigerators that are as old as 30 years can still be working fine. However, the issue is with their efficiency and how much electricity they use. Whether it takes a toll on your bills or not?
Hence, it is important to assess the overall condition of your appliance. How does it look on the outside and the inside? What kind of performance does it have? How much electricity is it using?
If you are buying a furnished home, remember to ask these questions from the previous homeowner, he will better be able to gauge the efficiency and the lifespan of the appliance before you decide to keep it in your home.
3. Ask yourself if your appliance is the appliances worth hiring a repairman for?
When you are making the decision to replace your current appliance, you need to estimate the repair costs first. How much would it require you to invest in the repairs and then compare with the cost of buying a new appliance? Do you think that the issues with the appliance can be fixed by a simple repair job? Is your appliance gone for good?
Usually, the grilling machines and dishwashers are cheap to repair but if you are in need of microwaves repair , dryer repair, refrigerators repairs, ovens repairs, electric stoves repairs, etc, it will cost a bit high. Hence, all in all, it comes down to the fact that whether a repair job will be sufficient to fix your appliance or you actually need to make an expense to buy a new one.
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4. Is there space in your home for new appliances?
This may sound stupid and petty, but one important factor you need to take into account while purchasing a new appliance is whether you have enough space in your home to accommodate it or not.
Let’s say you have a garage or the main door with a double door entrance, then you are golden because practically anything can fit through these doors. However, if you reside in a small apartment or a small condo, then simply dragging the appliance inside the house to its designated place can be a huge hassle. Would you want to go through it?
The best approach is to measure the size of your present appliances and the dimensions of the area they are set at and then compare these dimensions with the new appliance in the store and figure out whether it will fit into the available space or not.
5. Is there a safe way to dispose of the malfunctioning appliances?
In the end, of course, there would be certain appliances that you need to get rid of from your home because they are practically junk waiting to be thrown away. However, the real question is how can one safely and effectively do that?
One way is to ask the repairman to simply take away the appliance, pay its worth, and then the person is responsible for disassembling and disposing of the parts.
Or you can call a special trash company through citylocal such as a scrap metal workshop to visit your home and take away the appliance. You can even ask a hauling company to take it away from you and dispose of it somewhere safely.