The Kitchen Appliance Repair Forum

Come in, grab a brewski, and get help repairing all your major kitchen appliances: refrigerators, icemakers, ranges, ovens, stoves, disposals, and dishwashers

The Laundry Appliance Repair Forum

Kick some major appliance butt on your dishonorable dryer and washing machine.

Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC)

Central furnaces and air conditioners, window air conditioning units, all the stuff that keeps you warm in the winter and cool in the summer.

Water Heaters

For repair help on your cold water heater (as opposed to a hot water heater-- why would you want to heat water that's already hot, anyway?)

General Appliance Repair Topics

1. Household Electrical Problems,
2. Appliance Haikus

Basic repair techniques used to fix all types of appliances. Also, consumer information: appliance brand recommendations and comparisons; model reviews; recall notices. Apprentice Appliantologists may not start new topics in the General Appliance Topics forum but may start new topics in the sub-forums below.

Water Treatment

Protect your appliances and precious bodily fluids from the ravages of contaminated water! This is the place to share information about selection, installation, troubleshooting, and repair of water softeners and filters.

Appliance Service Manual Requests

Tap into our vast reservoir of appliantological scriptures. We have service manuals for most brand and models. Post your request here and, if the manual is available, we'll get it to you!

Enrolled Student's Classroom

An exclusive forum for Scholars of Advanced Appliantological Studies and Chief Apprentice Appliantologists.

The Tool Box

Tool talk for tool heads. Cool tools for fixit fools. Found a cool tool you want to share? Or made a tool for a specific repair? Specialty tools for appliance repair. Tool recommendations from Master Appliantologists.

Computer Problems

If you're having computer problems, whether on Mac or Windows, post it here and someone can probably help get you going.

Announcements

Announcements and proclamations from the Fermented Grand Master of Appliantology.

Orientation for New Students

Tip and tricks for getting the most of the Samurai School of Appliantology forums or getting started; questions on how to use these forums. Anyone may start and reply to topics here.

Suggestion Box

Got a killer idea for improving the Samurai School of Appliantology? Post it here.

Find a Local Tech

In over your head? Time to bring in a pro? Well, this is the place to start looking! The servicers here are all Masters Appliantologists and many are frequent contributors to these hallowed pages.

Buying a New or Used Appliance

1. New Appliance Deals,
2. Used Appliance Emporium,
3. Appliance Reviews

Classifieds

1. Appliance Parts Junkyard,
2. Services Wanted,
3. Services for Hire,
4. Tools Wanted,
5. Tools Available

Buy and sell, barter and trade, haggle and gaggle, wiggle and waggle... you get the idea. It's all about the stuff, man, The Stuff.

Appliance War Stories

If you're a consumer, post your horror stories of dealings with jive turkey repairmen, parts changing monkeys, or manufacturer bureaucracy. If you're a professional servicer, post your war stories dealing with cheesedork customers or repairing the appliance from Hell.

Website Hosting

The nitty-gritty of running your own website. How to find a good web host and web host recommendations. Publishing platforms: hand-made pages, Google Sites, Wordpress, Posterous, Blogger... so many choices, how to decide?

Webmaster's Toolbox

Cool tools (programs) used to run websites: FTP file managers, HTML editorsm etc. SEO discussions should go here, too.

The Dojo

This dojo is for Master Appliantologists, those with a black belt in Fixite Do, to get together and sharpen their skills.

Bidness Skool

All about the joys and agonies of running a real-life appliance repair service bidness. Share tips with your Brethren for learning fancy stuff like, "enhancing profitability," "increasing gross receipts," "maximizing margins," and "recruiting qualified personnel."

Master Appliantologist's Armory

Tech tips by and for Master Appliantologists.

The Inner Sanctum

This is the Inner Sanctum of the Samurai School of Appliantology, where Exalted Masters of The Craft may partake of manufacturer's sacred service manual writings.

Appliantology Academy Fellows Geisha House

This is the conference room where Fellows of the Appliantology Academy, the premiere appliance repair technician academy in the world, can gather to discuss Fellow stuff... like which beer they're going to pick from the walk-in beer cooler which is fully-stocked with every beer from all over the world, all free for Fellows of the Academy. Enjoy!