OT: Storing Appliances for Remodel

[ThePennsyOracle]

I am remodeling my kitchen this fall and found a good deal on an appliance package, so I just bought it rather than wait and take a chance with supply chain issues.

The stuff (gas range, microwave, dishwasher, etc) is currently in my garage. Is there any concern with storing the stuff there until September/October?

My garage gets hot (Pennsylvania) and obviously isn’t air conditioned, and I don’t want to ruin anything, or it’s electronics. I might be overthinking it, but I’d rather move it now than take several thousand dollars worth of equipment to the trash.

 

[91Joe95]

I am remodeling my kitchen this fall and found a good deal on an appliance package, so I just bought it rather than wait and take a chance with supply chain issues.

The stuff (gas range, microwave, dishwasher, etc) is currently in my garage. Is there any concern with storing the stuff there until September/October?

My garage gets hot (Pennsylvania) and obviously isn’t air conditioned, and I don’t want to ruin anything, or it’s electronics. I might be overthinking it, but I’d rather move it now than take several thousand dollars worth of equipment to the trash.

Should be fine, just cover it to keep the dust off and critters out. When bringing it inside, it's not a bad idea to let it sit for a day or so and let any humidity that may have gotten in the ectronics dry off before sending electricity through it and possibly shorting something. For any refrigerators definitely let sit for a day so that any liquid around the compressor (from tilting while moving) can redistribute, or you could damage it.

 

[GregInPitt]

I am remodeling my kitchen this fall and found a good deal on an appliance package, so I just bought it rather than wait and take a chance with supply chain issues.

The stuff (gas range, microwave, dishwasher, etc) is currently in my garage. Is there any concern with storing the stuff there until September/October?

My garage gets hot (Pennsylvania) and obviously isn’t air conditioned, and I don’t want to ruin anything, or it’s electronics. I might be overthinking it, but I’d rather move it now than take several thousand dollars worth of equipment to the trash.

Yep, I believe you are over thinking it. Those appliances might have been stored somewhere else in less favorable climate and conditions before you purchased them anyway.

We just completed the remodeling of our kitchen. But what got us moving forward was going out to HDepot and looking at the type of gas range we might want to replace our double wall oven and cook top that we had in our old kitchen. That was in April 2021, and when we found that the range my wife liked was on sale to the tune of $1K off when there were very few appliances on sale due to the lack of availability that Covid factory shutdowns combined with the passing out of free money created, we just purchased it right then without even having explored what it would cost to remodel the kitchen and who we might hire to do the job.

Then right after that we also bought a new refrigerator as well. We put off the delivery as long as we could, until early Fall, but then stored them in our garage from that time until the kitchen was nearing completion in April 2022, last month. We signed our remodeling contract in July 2021 with the expectation that the cabinets would be available in approximately 15 weeks (some time in October/November), but our contractor overscheduled himself as many do and then seemed to drag out the work from a 1/24 start to only finishing this past week. One of the big delays was the quartz counters and backsplash supplier. They first measured once the cabinets were installed, but it was 3 additional week before they were ready to install the countertops. Only then would they measure for the quartz backsplash, with the next 3 week delay until they came back to install the backsplash.....

I can't imagine why sitting in a garage, unpowered, would have any effect on the performance of an appliance for the long term. But we did leave the appliances in the boxes they are shipped in to keep the dust and any fumes or dirt off of them. Electronics could be impacted by excessive dust in the even the dust/dirt got into and onto the actual circuit boards, but that should not happen if you keep them covered in your garage.

 

[ThePennsyOracle]

Yep, I believe you are over thinking it. Those appliances might have been stored somewhere else in less favorable climate and conditions before you purchased them anyway.

We just completed the remodeling of our kitchen. But what got us moving forward was going out to HDepot and looking at the type of gas range we might want to replace our double wall oven and cook top that we had in our old kitchen. That was in April 2021, and when we found that the range my wife liked was on sale to the tune of $1K off when there were very few appliances on sale due to the lack of availability that Covid factory shutdowns combined with the passing out of free money created, we just purchased it right then without even having explored what it would cost to remodel the kitchen and who we might hire to do the job.

Then right after that we also bought a new refrigerator as well. We put off the delivery as long as we could, until early Fall, but then stored them in our garage from that time until the kitchen was nearing completion in April 2022, last month. We signed our remodeling contract in July 2021 with the expectation that the cabinets would be available in approximately 15 weeks (some time in October/November), but our contractor overscheduled himself as many do and then seemed to drag out the work from a 1/24 start to only finishing this past week. One of the big delays was the quartz counters and backsplash supplier. They first measured once the cabinets were installed, but it was 3 additional week before they were ready to install the countertops. Only then would they measure for the quartz backsplash, with the next 3 week delay until they came back to install the backsplash.....

I can't imagine why sitting in a garage, unpowered, would have any effect on the performance of an appliance for the long term. But we did leave the appliances in the boxes they are shipped in to keep the dust and any fumes or dirt off of them. Electronics could be impacted by excessive dust in the even the dust/dirt got into and onto the actual circuit boards, but that should not happen if you keep them covered in your garage.

Thank you. Our stories are similar. I also found the range we wanted for $1000 off and had been watching a microwave and dishwasher. Ended up with the microwave for about $200 off and a dishwasher for $300 off thanks in part to a discount from a family member.

We are going with quartz countertops and TBD on the backsplash. Wife is in charge of that stuff and I took care of the appliances.

 

[ThePennsyOracle]

Should be fine, just cover it to keep the dust off and critters out. When bringing it inside, it's not a bad idea to let it sit for a day or so and let any humidity that may have gotten in the ectronics dry off before sending electricity through it and possibly shorting something. For any refrigerators definitely let sit for a day so that any liquid around the compressor (from tilting while moving) can redistribute, or you could damage it.

Will do. I left them all in original packaging. Thank you.

 

[GregInPitt]

Thank you. Our stories are similar. I also found the range we wanted for $1000 off and had been watching a microwave and dishwasher. Ended up with the microwave for about $200 off and a dishwasher for $300 off thanks in part to a discount from a family member.

We are going with quartz countertops and TBD on the backsplash. Wife is in charge of that stuff and I took care of the appliances.

I believe all of our friends that remodeled their kitchens went with tile for their backsplashes. We had tile in our previous kitchen as well as in our previous home's kitchen long ago, but we weren't to keen on all the grout lines and keeping it clean. Time will tell if in the longer run we love the quartz backsplash as much as we do now, but it is a solid non-porous surface that looks even better when we look at it straight on than it does on the countertops which are viewed from angles. The pattern is much more visible and confirmed how much we like what we picked.

When we started picking out materials, and were seriously considering quartz for the countertops, we looked for two different quartz patterns that would compliment each other, one for the countertops and one for the backsplashes. But our kitchen contractor/designer (not the install contractor, but we pretty much did our own design) kind of talked us out of the 2 pattern plan and we settled on one quartz pattern. So far we love it.

Another interesting installation option we choose, presented to us by the actual quartz supplier/installer, was the covering of the marble windowsill for the 8 foot window that encompasses the sink and outer wall countertop area. When their measuring guy came to measure I explained that our previous short backsplash for the previous countertops had a small gap between it and the bottom of the window sill that was hard to keep clean. He suggested replacing the window sill with quartz and bringing it out further over the backsplash to create an overhang to solve the issue. I was hesitant to OK that due to the window warranty we have and then he suggested notching out the backsplash under the window to allow it to reach the height of the top of the current window sill and then covering the window sill with quartz. He could do that since the windows had enough bottom height before the actual glass. So now the marble is buried in the quartz. It's really beautiful and also extended the window sill out somewhat which also is nice.

One thing that also made that work well was that we had a little extra room on that side of the kitchen, so early in the plan I had the design include moving the base cabinets on the outside wall 2 inches from the wall to create more counter depth. Overall I couldn't be more pleased, although since my wife is short and the slider windows we previously installed have two latches on them the extra 2 inches away has resulted in her not being able to reach the top latch without getting out a stool .......

Pennsy, if you lived closer I'd invite you over to take a look.

 

[ThePennsyOracle]

I believe all of our friends that remodeled their kitchens went with tile for their backsplashes. We had tile in our previous kitchen as well as in our previous home's kitchen long ago, but we weren't to keen on all the grout lines and keeping it clean. Time will tell if in the longer run we love the quartz backsplash as much as we do now, but it is a solid non-porous surface that looks even better when we look at it straight on than it does on the countertops which are viewed from angles. The pattern is much more visible and confirmed how much we like what we picked.

When we started picking out materials, and were seriously considering quartz for the countertops, we looked for two different quartz patterns that would compliment each other, one for the countertops and one for the backsplashes. But our kitchen contractor/designer (not the install contractor, but we pretty much did our own design) kind of talked us out of the 2 pattern plan and we settled on one quartz pattern. So far we love it.

Another interesting installation option we choose, presented to us by the actual quartz supplier/installer, was the covering of the marble windowsill for the 8 foot window that encompasses the sink and outer wall countertop area. When their measuring guy came to measure I explained that our previous short backsplash for the previous countertops had a small gap between it and the bottom of the window sill that was hard to keep clean. He suggested replacing the window sill with quartz and bringing it out further over the backsplash to create an overhang to solve the issue. I was hesitant to OK that due to the window warranty we have and then he suggested notching out the backsplash under the window to allow it to reach the height of the top of the current window sill and then covering the window sill with quartz. He could do that since the windows had enough bottom height before the actual glass. So now the marble is buried in the quartz. It's really beautiful and also extended the window sill out somewhat which also is nice.

One thing that also made that work well was that we had a little extra room on that side of the kitchen, so early in the plan I had the design include moving the base cabinets on the outside wall 2 inches from the wall to create more counter depth. Overall I couldn't be more pleased, although since my wife is short and the slider windows we previously installed have two latches on them the extra 2 inches away has resulted in her not being able to reach the top latch without getting out a stool .......

Pennsy, if you lived closer I'd invite you over to take a look.

If you have a chance to grab a photo of your backsplash I’d love to see it. I think you have my email address too if that’s easier.

I’ve never thought of a quartz backsplash but I’m intrigued. There’s a subway tile-esquire thing I found at Lowes but that’s the only hit so far.

The wife picked out white cabinets and went with a black quartz with white swirls. I’ve been thinking of a grayish backsplash to bridge the dark colors.