Running out of creative 'kitchen' titles

I had more fun in the kitchen today, in between watching football and helping my other half study for a test next week.

The plaster is almost done in the kitchen. I'm going to have to put a thin coat on in the dining room, but that's not as bad as it sounds. All that's left in the kitchen is the last coat above the cabinets with the oven. Also managed to get everything in so the refrigerator could go back where it belongs, and I can finally use the door to the formal dining room again (hooray!).





I got to spend some time figuring things out on the oven today. Mainly why it takes so long to preheat anything. It seems like a preheat element is burned out, but I could see the big one at the top of the oven glowing so that's obviously not it and there aren't any more in sight. Making things even more confusing was the fact that it'd get really close to being up to temperature and then not warm up any more, never completing the preheat cycle. Then I read a review where someone commented on the glow coming from the convection fan and I definitely didn't see that. I took the cover off the rear wall of the oven and found



So it's warranty time. LG makes it easy - you can register your oven and file a claim online. Trouble is, you navigate to my oven model and then it tells you they're all out of warranty. Trouble is, I bought it new in August, this model is still being sold today, and the paperwork says that you get a 1 year warranty from the date of purchase. How this type of oven, still sold to this day, can be out of warranty is beyond me. In the end it was just easier to order a new heating element from Sears than try and make it through LG's runaround since they're not expensive. It's a shame because they do make nice appliances and the part that failed probably died because things got rough during shipping, but LG really needs to look into things like this. If you're selling something today that comes with a 1 year warranty it's impossible for all of them to be out of warranty already, and if you stop selling them at least wait a while for everything to clear out of the supply chain and don't remove the ability for someone to file a claim online (especially when the 1 year starts when someone buys the thing).

Anyway the moral of the story is... well there isn't one. But if your oven preheats really slowly it's time to have a look at the preheat elements, which are really easy to get to if you can't see them from just opening the door and looking up and down. If they're broken it's pretty obvious.