Some appliances are more or less necessary to survival these days, like a refrigerator. Others, like dishwashers or laundry machines, save us a lot of time and personal labor. These appliances can be ...

If your refrigerator is giving you trouble—your water dispenser has slowed to a trickle, your icemaker keeps jamming, or worse, you open the door and get hit by a warm breeze—you’re probably wondering ...