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Had a talk with my plumber neighbor about appliance parts
He was fixing his own dryer and mentioned he always checks the thermal fuse first, because in his words, 'it's a five dollar part that fails more than you'd think'. I've been doing this for eight years and always went straight for the heating element... but he's right, I checked three calls this week and two were just the fuse. How often do you guys find a simple part is the real culprit after assuming it's something bigger?
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haydenbutler7d ago
Could that pressure come from how we're taught to diagnose?
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the_rose7d ago
So do you think there's a pressure in the trade to jump to the more expensive fix first? I mean, maybe it's just me, but I feel like we're trained to look for the big, obvious part that burns out. It's easier to bill for a heating element than a five dollar fuse. But then you waste everyone's time. I wonder how many simple solutions we all skip over because we assume it has to be complicated.
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