Saturday, January 6, 2007

It's cool, but can't say the heat is on

Our appliances arrived today! The delivery went smoothly. The workers took the old and left the new. We had an electrician friend drop by to install the connection for the stove. Here's where we ran into some problems. The old wiring is 10 gauge size and we need to have size 8 to operate the larger stove. He has to return to run a new cable from the main box to the kitchen. Since he's a part time electrician (on his off hours from his regular job), he'll try to make time to fix it next week, as he didn't have everything he needed today. It was a bigger job than we all anticipated. When we get it working, we'll be able to test out the convection oven and all the electonic digital settings for ourselves. We'll have to be patient for now and make do with our toaster oven for fixing our meals in the meantime.
The fridge is working perfectly. Just plug and play. Play is exactly what my wife has been doing with it so far. She's been marvelling over it's features. She's been busy arranging the shelves and putting food away, each with its own designated space.
The appliances are both stainless steel made by LG. We got a great deal on them so I couldn't refuse buying the stove too. Here are the photos I promised, which show off the new additions to our appliance family.