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Very young kids can play with your electrical items or your electric outlets. Keep your appliances out of their reach. Your outlets need to be securely covered as well. Make it a point to always remind your kids not to poke electrical outlets.

Find out and understand the life expectancy of the components of your home. Nothing lasts forever, and this holds true to the appliances and gadgets you have in your home. Your fridge has a twelve to fifteen useful life; water heater has ten to twelve years. Your roof should last for twenty years. The carpets probably need to be replaced after eight years and your paint three to four years. The plumbing may last for twenty-five years, and your electrical wiring is safe for fifteen or twenty years and the furnace will remain efficient for twenty years at most.

Make the most out of your appliances. This goes especially for your washing machine and your dishwasher. As much as possible, always use these appliances with a full load. If you are looking for a new washing machine, choose a front loading model. This type of washing machine is much more efficient than other models. It actually decreases your laundry water consumption by up to 40% while decreasing your electricity consumption by up to 50%. Some dishwasher models on the other hand have an "energy saver" mode for air drying your items. If your dishwasher has this setting, use it.

While there are life changing setbacks that electricity has brought to human beings there are of course huge advantages, which easily overcome any drawbacks. One such example is the light bulb. In the past candles were used to give light as soon as the sun went down. However now you can get your light through a light bulb, this can be done by the press of a button or flick of switch and is of a much higher intensity.

A great time to buy small appliances on Craigslist cheap is during wedding season or at the end of college (usually from May to August). Although these items are listed all year round, you will find an influx of stuff posted by college students and newlyweds because college students are often moving back home with mom and newlyweds are combing two households into one.

Never buy dirty items. home appliances that have not been kept in a good or neat condition need not be bought. Look elsewhere and buy a product that has been cleaned by the seller before taking a picture.

Even when a company has high quality control standards they are limited by the materials they buy and the select parts that almost always have to be outsourced.
TCL 6 Series 65 Inch seems that almost all the fans, compressors and temperature sensors in refrigerators come from the same factory. This combined with low quality raw materials and everyone trying to cut costs makes the outcome inevitable. You are going to get an inferior product and the days of your twenty year old appliances are a memory from the past.