My oven died, and I think I killed it. My garden produced a zillion tomatoes this year, so I decided to be all domestic and can them when aaron's mom was here to teach me how. (thank you Lynda! I now have 19 beautiful jars of stewed tomatoes in my food storage closet...am I Suzy Homemaker or what?!)
Anyway, we were almost finished and my stove started making this terrible buzzing noise, so we turned off the burners...and now my oven beeps. After 37 seconds it beeps once and flashes E2 F1 on the display. THEN, 24 seconds later it beeps 3 short beeps, and sometimes then the display says E1 F0. My range works fine, but the oven doesn't work AT ALL, and the beeping is driving me MAD! I looked up the owners manual online and it says that if you have a letter F followed by a number you need to call the whirlpool service people.
Sooo today i have someone coming to look at it today to give me a "diagnosis". The REAL problem? When I grouted my beautiful new countertop i think i cemented the range top in place. It is a built in, so i guess i didn't realize that even hard-wired build in range/ovens can slide out so you can service them when they break. oops. Looks like i'll be ripping up a row of tile so we can fix the oven....if it can be fixed! The cheapest slide in that i have seen so far is $950...but most run anywhere from $1200-$1800! That better be one fabulous oven if i have to replace it!
Oh! And my dishwasher stopped working suddenly too! Now it only runs if you put it on the pots and pans setting...which i guess i can live with, but it still takes WAY more water and energy than necessary.
So there you go, my appliances hate me! I'm just hoping for a positive (meaning fixable) diagnosis from the oven guy this afternoon. He'll be here sometime between the hours of 1 and 3 today.
Goodbye Butterflies
12 years ago
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Hey Meg,
Here is a link to the error codes should it happen again.
http://www.repairclinic.com/0078.asp#Polara
Geno
FYI - That nasty looking bug you have is actually called a cicada. ;)
I thought the cicadas were the big black beetle-looking things with the suction cups on their front legs?
the service guy just left...it would cost $200+ to fix the dishwasher so he said it's probably better to run it on the cycle it works on until it dies completely then replace it. The oven is going to cost at least $350 to fix...the computer system died on it...and he's going to need to slide the oven out about 6 inches...which means i'm going to have to re-do a row of tiles. SAD SAD SAD!
Last night our kitchen sink backed up, and then leaked downstairs onto my CLEAN laundry, only to be followed by the shower backing up this morning.
Thank goodness we live a thousand miles apart or together we would have one broken home.
I feel your pain, I'd rather take those hundreds of wasted dollars and spend them on something useful, like new shoes.
ahhh poor you!! that is sad.
i added 2 new posts...pics of J's bedroom and game room...check it out.
you are totally lucky btw you get lots of comments on your blog, people like you. i hope your friends know that when they visit my blog (um and i so know you guys do) that they are welcome to drop a note (please).
Wow, when it rains, it really does pour! Makes me wonder if home ownership is really worth it. Anyways, if it makes you feel any better, our toilet just got fixed yesterday -- after being broken for three days!
Don't feel too bad. When we lived in Gilroy we went without a dishwasher for 4 months because we were scared they would realize they forgot to raise our rent if they looked at our file. Also, our upstairs toilet was broken for the first two and a half years we lived in our house. We paid $150 for someone to come out and fix it, but it only worked for a week after that. Now Josh is using that room.... so well, lets just say we hope it will survive.
Okay, I know there's a really good post coming...and it involves a deer...why are you making us wait??? Please, dear blogger, do indulge us! Something positive should come from every unfortunate experience, right?
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