While heat plays a big role in quickly drying your clothing, it is actually the motion of your dryer drum that is the unsung hero. By rotating your clothing and introducing the warm air throughout your clothing, it helps speed up the drying process. When your dryer is no longer turning, then it is unlikely your clothes will ever get … Read More
Signs Your Dishwasher Heating Element is Faulty
While your dishwasher may be hooked up to the hot water line, every dishwasher uses a heating element to heat the wash water up to the appropriate temperature. Found in the bottom of the tub, you may recognize the heating element if you have an electric oven as they serve the same function, in a way. However, there may come … Read More
Is It Normal For A Refrigerator To Run Constantly?
If you are frequently in your kitchen and it seems like your refrigerator is always running, you may find it a bit odd. After paying it a little more attention, you may find that your refrigerator is actually always running. Is this a problem? Yes! Your refrigerator may run once or twice per hour, but there should definitely be breaks … Read More
How to Repair an Oven That Heats Unevenly
If you have pulled out food from your electric oven and found that it is unevenly baked, it can certainly be a problem you can live with, but only for a while. Someday soon you will tire of having to make sure you rotate your food and wish your oven just worked the way it used to. The good news … Read More
Are Dryer Sheets Bad For Your Dryer?
For some, fabric softening comes from a detergent put in the wash, but for others, they depend on using dryer sheets. However, there is a long-standing debate on whether dryer sheets are bad for your dryer or not. Obviously, if they caused a lot of harm very quickly, we wouldn’t use dryer sheets as often as people do. However, dryer … Read More
How Close Can You Put The Refrigerator to the Wall?
These days, modern kitchens are designed so that everything from the appliances to the dishtowels has a sleek space. This means that sometimes new appliances can end up tightly wedged into those spaces if they may be slightly larger than the appliances they are replacing. For those who have a kitchen designed with a refrigerator alcove, this can lead to … Read More
Why Your Dishwasher is Not Cleaning Your Dishes
No one likes to open their dishwasher and find the dishes are still dirty. A dishwasher is meant to be a time-saver. A dishwasher that leaves your dishes dirty is a major headache. If your dishwasher isn’t getting your dishes clean, here are several items to check. Water Inlet Valve Water enters the dishwasher when the water inlet valve is … Read More
Is Smelly Laundry The Fault of the Dryer or the Washer?
When you wash your clothes, it is a reasonable assumption that they will come out smelling better than when they went in. However, if you have finished your laundry and find it to be smelling musty or gross instead of clean and fresh, there is definitely an issue. Yet, you may wonder which of the two appliances your wash just … Read More
Can You Repair a Broken Microwave Display?
Is the display or control panel on your microwave having issues? Do the buttons just not respond? Is the display not showing anything or is what it shows deformed in some way? These are issues, and they can be highly disruptive ones at that. However, if your display or control panel are having issues on a microwave, can you actually … Read More
Why is Your Ice Maker Not Making Enough Ice?
If you have opened up your ice maker and found a few new ice cubes but hardly enough, then it is a sign of a problem. This particular problem is one of the more frustrating ice maker issues. After all, it is in fact working, but it just isn’t working very well. However, if your ice maker just isn’t making … Read More