Home appliances are developed to carry out. They strive, year after year, usually without a lot of issues. They're easy to take for given. The outcome is that when a device breaks down, you may be totally at a loss-- you do not know how it works, you have no concept why it stopped working, and you definitely don't understand how to repair it.
What can you do? You can pay a professional to repair it, or you can fix it yourself and conserve cash. This article will provide you with all the info you need to know to pull your major home appliances apart and then put them back together in working order. However prior to you assault the fridge with a screwdriver, let's get some background information on significant home appliances.
A lot of devices run on your home's electrical system: They use AC present from the circuit circuitry in your home. Small appliances deal with 110-120-volt circuits, and the plugs on their cords have 2 blades. Large or major devices, such as air conditioning unit, dryers, and ranges, typically need 220-240-volt electrical wiring and can not be run on 110-120-volt circuits. Big home appliances are wired with a grounding wire; their plugs have two blades and a prong. This type of home appliance need to be plugged into a grounded outlet-- one with openings to accept both blades and grounding prong-- or grounded with a special adapter plug. All home appliances are labeled-- either on a metal plate or on the home appliance casing-- with their power requirements in watts and volts, and in some cases in amps.
Small appliances are typically fairly basic machines. They may consist of a simple heating aspect, a fan, a set of blades, or rotating beaters attached to a drive shaft; or they may have 2 or 3 basic mechanical linkages. Repair work to these home appliances are usually alike simple. Big home appliances are more intricate-- one significant appliance, such as a washing machine, might have a motor, a timer, and a pump, in addition to different valves, switches, and solenoids. With this type of device, issues can take place in either the control gadgets or the mechanical/power parts. Failure of a control device might affect one operation or the entire home appliance; failure of ΕΠΙΣΚΕΥΗ ΟΙΚΙΑΚΩΝ ΣΥΣΚΕΥΩΝ ΑΘΗΝΑ a mechanical/power gadget generally affects only the functions that depend upon that gadget. When a significant home appliance breaks down, understanding how to identify the problem is as important as knowing how to fix it.
Since significant home appliances are so complicated, it normally isn't obvious where a malfunction is. (Numerous newer devices include electronic diagnostics that can be analyzed from the owner's handbook.) The primary step is to decide whether the issue remains in a control gadget or a mechanical device. In a clothes dryer, for example, the control gadgets govern the heat, and the mechanical elements turn the drum. Which system is impacted? If the drum turns, but the clothes dryer doesn't heat, the problem remains in the control system. If the clothes dryer warms, however the drum doesn't turn, the issue is mechanical. This type of analysis can be used to determine the type of failure-- control system or mechanical system-- in all big appliances.
To find out exactly what the issue is, you should check each part of the ΕΠΙΣΚΕΥΗ ΟΙΚΙΑΚΩΝ ΣΥΣΚΕΥΩΝ affected system to find the malfunctioning part. This isn't as hard as it sounds, since device parts collaborate in a sensible sequence. Starting with the most basic possibilities, you can check the parts one by one to isolate the reason for the failure.
Fixing Significant Home Appliances
There are three very essential rules you need to follow when you attempt to make any kind of device repair work. Don't ever try to conserve time or loan by overlooking these rules. You will not save anything at all, and you might wind up hurting yourself or ruining the home appliance.
Constantly make certain the electric power and/or the gas supply to the device is disconnected prior to you check the device to identify the problem or make any repair work. If you turn the power on to examine your work after making a repair, do not touch the home appliance; simply turn the power on and observe. If adjustments are needed, turn the power off prior to you make them.
If the parts of a device are held together with screws, bolts, plugs, and other take-apart fasteners, you can probably make any necessary repairs. If the parts are held together with rivets or welds, do not attempt to fix the device yourself. Call a professional service person.
For the most part, broken or malfunctioning appliance parts can be replaced more quickly and cheaply than they can be fixed by you or a professional. Change any damaged or malfunctioning parts with brand-new parts made especially for that home appliance. If you can not find a specific replacement for the broken part, it's fine to substitute a comparable part as long as it fits into the old space. In this case, refer to the manufacturer's instructions for installation.
Device parts are available from home appliance service centers, appliance-repair dealers, and appliance-parts shops. You do not always need to go to a particular brand-name appliance parts center to obtain the parts and service you need for brand-name home appliances, so you do have some shopping/service options. If you can't find a parts service center in your location, order the part you need straight from the maker. The name and address of the device maker are normally printed on the device. Make sure to give the maker all the design and parts information possible for the appliance. If available, search on the Internet for replacement parts.Before you make any device repair work, make sure the appliance is receiving power. Lack of power is the most common reason for device failure. Before you start the testing and diagnosis procedure, take these preliminary steps:
Inspect to ensure that the home appliance is effectively and securely plugged in and that the cord, the plug, and the outlet are working correctly. To determine whether an outlet is working, evaluate it with a voltage tester.
Examine to make sure the fuses and/or breaker that manage the circuit have actually not blown or tripped. There might be more than one electrical entryway panel for your home, especially for 220-240-volt home appliances such as ranges and air conditioners. Check for blown fuses or tripped circuit breakers at both the primary panel and the different panel.
Inspect to ensure fuses and/or breakers in the device itself are not blown or tripped. Press the reset buttons to bring back power to home appliances such as washers, dryers, and varieties. Some ranges have different plug-type merges for oven operation; make certain these merges have not blown.
If the appliance utilizes gas or water, check to make certain it is getting an adequate supply.
Examine the owner's handbook for the home appliance. Numerous producers consist of valuable problem/solution repairing charts. If you don't have a handbook for a home appliance, you can probably get one-- even for an old or outdated home appliance-- from the maker's customer care department.
All right, now that we have the preliminaries out of the method, it's time to dive right in. Carry on to the next section to discover how to take apart a major device and the details on grounding systems.