GE appliance repair on Oahu

Haier. The company now calls itself GE Appliances, a Haier company, after it was bought from General Electric, and the GE name itself still belongs to the General Electric Company.

Look at the first two letters: the first is the month and the second is the year.

GE reuses its year letters about every 12 years, so AD can be January 2002 or January 2014. To settle it, GE points owners to the print date beside the publication number in the owner's manual, written like 02-20 for February 2020. A unit that has been in the house for years is usually the older reading.

GE counts from the purchase date, shown by a sales invoice, a builder's letter or other proof of occupancy. With none of those, it falls back on the manufacture date coded in the serial number. For a new Oahu condo, the builder's letter is often the easiest proof to find.

No, GE says a gas dryer must always vent outdoors, never into a garage, closet or attic space.

GE lets only one cavity self-clean at a time, and neither will start while it is still hot from cooking.

Yes. GE and GE Profile model numbers always begin and end with a letter, which helps when a tag is half worn off.

GE names five US plants: Louisville, Kentucky for washers, dryers, dishwashers and refrigerators; Decatur, Alabama for refrigerators; LaFayette, Georgia for cooking; Selmer, Tennessee for refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners; and Camden, South Carolina for water heaters. Headquarters is Appliance Park in Louisville, opened in 1951, and its first shipment, a load of dryers, left in 1953.

Monogram, its luxury line, plus Café, GE Profile, Haier and Hotpoint. We work on all of them.

GE credits its Louisville engineers with the self-cleaning oven in 1963, the through-the-door ice and water dispenser in 1969, the over-the-range microwave in 1978 and a dishwasher with auto soil sensing in 1995. Several of those are now common across brands, which is why parts from those systems show up on so many repair calls.