Catlady
Well-known Member
- Location
- Southern AZ
My 2005 electric stove's two of its burners no longer work, the big 8inch ones. My handyman wants $225 to buy 4 new burners (2 8inch and 2 6inch) and the element, including his $75 fee for labor. The 2 8inch burners cost $71 and I was going to buy them, but I read the element MUST be replaced anyway, which I don't want to mess with trying to do myself. A comparable brand new stove will cost me about $500, which includes free shipping and installation and disposal of old stove.
Ordinarily I won't pay more than 1/3 the cost of a new appliance to fix the old one, but on this I am stumped. Would you pay $225 to fix a 13 year old stove that you can buy brand new for $500? And $500 is the cheapest I could find, most of the others are way higher and almost all the others have the smooth top and I would rather have the coils and pretty soon I won't be able to buy the ones with coils (I heard the smooth ones scratch easily and you have to be extremely careful).
Opinions please!
Ordinarily I won't pay more than 1/3 the cost of a new appliance to fix the old one, but on this I am stumped. Would you pay $225 to fix a 13 year old stove that you can buy brand new for $500? And $500 is the cheapest I could find, most of the others are way higher and almost all the others have the smooth top and I would rather have the coils and pretty soon I won't be able to buy the ones with coils (I heard the smooth ones scratch easily and you have to be extremely careful).
Opinions please!