The Best Defense….

...is a good offense and let me tell ya I’m already attacking this old house and it’s only Thursday. Remember the $37 heating element for the oven I ordered from Sears online? It was supposed to get here tomorrow, but it made it a day early and I was able to get it installed tonight. Score one for the…home team? Anyway, here is the new element…

And here is the new element compared to the old element…

The repair was EXTREMELY easy and only involved turning off the oven’s circuit breaker, unscrewing two screws and unhooking two wires shown here…

I knew this because, when I ordered the element, the Sears webpage had a blown-up picture of the oven. You know it’s one of those pictures that you get when you buy a Lego set and it shows things taken apart with dotted lines were they attach. Those little pictures are a God-send when you are trying to not only A) order the right part but also B) figure out if you are going to need any other parts. Next I hooked up the new element to the two wires, screwed the two screws in and flipped the breaker back on and bada-bing bada-boom…

I got a glowin hot heating element ready to bake! This project turned out just about as well as any project I’ve ever done. Not really because of my great skill or good looks (although there is plenty of that to go around) just simply because it was any easy fix once I did a little online research. My wife and I were freaking out about trying to find $5-600 in our budget for a new oven but ended up only being out around $50 (after tax and shipping.) God bless Google and Sears! Now all I need to do is go find some oven-cleaner sheesh!

So how about it blog-heads, any repairs going on in your neck of the woods this weekend?