Warning: I heard a guy at the parts counter say 'I never check the door switch first'

I was picking up a thermal fuse in Springfield last week and the repairman ahead of me was bragging about how he always starts with the control board on a no-heat dryer call. He said it saves him time. I think that's a fast way to waste a customer's money and your own time. The door switch is a five-minute check with a meter, and it's the most common fail point on half the models out there. How many of you still follow the simple checks first, or are we all just jumping to the expensive parts now?

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faith_smith12d ago

That repairman in Springfield must have a lot of time to waste.

tyler82212d agoMost Upvoted

Springfield has over 100,000 people. That repairman probably has a steady stream of broken appliances and cars to fix every single day. Calling it wasted time assumes the work isn't needed, but things break constantly. It just looks like a lot from the outside if you only see one job. I doubt he's sitting around looking for busy work.