It’s the way things seem to be these days. It seems like every 6 months I replace the igniter on our gas dryer. Every year I replace the igniter in the furnace and that thing only runs a half dozen times a winter.
After 2.5 decades of tree work I can confirm this. And the more guys on the crew the shorter the saws lives seem to be. But that saw probably paid for itself 100 times over.
You know this but most fellers don’t realize that chainsaws are the cheapest motorized equipment on a tree job.
For refrigerators all of them are junk compared to the older ones. LG and Samsung are the worst, but most aren’t lasting more than 4-5 years anymore. That is if they don’t shít the bed in months. Usually the compressor. Hopefully you bought the longest warranty you could.
Our Samsung is going on 10 years now and it was supposedly the most reliable, according to consumers reports, at the time. I’ve had to fix the water supply solenoid twice, replace the defrost timer for both the freezer side and refer side, and relocate the defrost heat sensor. The defrost heat sensor and water fill solenoid were within a month after the fridge was delivered. The quality has only gone downhill since on them.
Back in the day you could expect a fridge to last 20 years and maybe only replace a defrost timer on them once.
@Oddsandends if you’re going to a trade school you could do a lot worse than HVAC school. Take any and all appliance repair courses they offer and pay close attention to how to diagnose electronics problems. You will be thousands ahead just fixing your own junk on top of making bank at your day job.
