So due to massive amounts of OT I had been putting off getting appliance repairs and it had lead to our washer, dishwasher and oven had issues.
The dishwasher was not dissolving the detergent nor cleaning anything, the oven''s broiler worked, but was not getting to temperature when baking and the washer wasn't draining.
Finally 2 weeks ago we called around and turns out just getting people to look at the appliances would have been $300 plus for all 3 appliances just for diagnostics, then on top of that cost of any parts and labour to repair them so likely would have been over $500.
I wasn't too excited about this considering the appliances are all low end models put in by the builder that I could replace for fully functional used models for less than that amount. So I decided I would give it a try myself despite my lack of appliance repair experience.
Over the last week we managed to fix the dishwasher and I took apart the oven and washer. It seems simply taking apart and putting back together the washer resolved whatever was causing the washer not to drain and I found out the terminal connector to the bake element of my oven had burnt out and simply replacing that(the part cost only $0.60) was all that was necessary to fix it. So in the end instead of spending $500+ for repairs I was able to fix it with $0.60 and a handful hours of work in total.
The takeaway for myself and anyone reading this not comfortable in their abilities to fix things themselves is just give it a try and you might be surprised.
