Good News, Bad News

First the good news. The Electrician was here today! We can now turn on the kitchen lights from the hallway. Yay!

He also put in a low profile switch by the broom closet and, with that and the new doorknob, the door could open all the way and it all worked! It took some maneuvering to figure out how best to fit the vacuum cleaner into it's new home, but I got there in the end. Can't wait to get some hooks to hang the broom and mop on.




Soon there will be a place to hang the iron above the vacuum slider thingie and the ironing board will go in the back and everything will be hidden away so beautifully.....
















And now the bad news. The left oven control panel doesn't work.

We installed the ovens and the electrician hooked everything up, but when we turned on the power we noticed something peculiar. On the left side, the oven control panel had a P, while on the right it showed a PF.

Then I tried to set the clocks. The instructions said to hold down the enter button until the clock flashed 12:00. Well after 45 seconds of pushing the left enter button I gave up and tried the right, which worked fine. Setting either clock will automatically set both so we looked over to the left and it said: 1: 4. Hmmmmm

So I had a more thorough read of the manual and it turns out that both sides should have read PF when we turned on the power. The left side should also have been able to set the clock and, after having set the clock on the right side and hitting enter, should not have allowed us at that point to change the time when we turned the dial on the left, but it did.

Major bummer. We called out to Whirlpool, who manufactures these ovens for Ikea, and manage the warranty, and they are sending someone out to fix it on Friday. If they have to cut into anything in order to fix it, they will have a major fight on their hands because I will expect them to replace it at that point, since we have never done anything other than turn it on. I refuse to have a brand new oven with replacement parts jerry rigged in it, before I even get to see if the thing preheats. In the meantime it looks pretty, if you ignore the P/PF mismatch, and we will be moving on to the dishwasher install when Jon finishes work for the day.