repair or replace, decided by the numbers

About this site

Repaplex answers one question per page: should this appliance be repaired, or replaced? The Canadian edition carries the brand and recall page and the guides built from Canadian records; the remaining guides, the calculator and the price data on this site are United States market data, linked and labelled as such.

How a page is made

• Numbers come from published price guides and, where one exists, from a repair company that publishes the median of its own completed jobs together with the sample size.
• Where a source publishes no sample size — as the Ontario service pages cited on the Canadian guide do not — the page says so and publishes no median, instead of turning a share into a count.
• The company’s own publishing limits are quoted on the page: a brand is published only above a minimum sample, and the page names the threshold in the publisher’s own words.
• Where a source publishes no duration or no part-only price, the page says so instead of dressing an estimate up as data.
• Government recall notices are reproduced with their own figures, dates and companies, and the jurisdiction is named every time.

What this site is not

• It is not affiliated with any appliance brand and it is not a repair company. We do not repair appliances and we do not sell anything.
• It is not a quote. Prices are the figures the source cited on the page publishes: Canadian dollars on the Canadian guides, United States market figures on the guides linked through to the United States edition. Your quote in Canada will differ.
• It does not replace a certified technician for gas appliances, sealed refrigeration systems, or anything involving the electrical installation of a home.

Corrections

If a figure is wrong or stale, write to janos@maczko.eu with the page address and the source that contradicts it. Corrections are applied to the record, and the page is regenerated from it.