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Originally Posted by zakthor

We've lived in current house for more than 20 years. When we moved in it had a 2 year old custom kitchen. I'm still in the honeymoon phase and think it is great but...

The cooktop sparkers are weak, electrodes are NLA, a few of the burners have low flame even though I've cleaned the jets... After each cleaning the sparkers work until a pot boils over. Recently the microwave in the combo microwave/oven started making a burning smell so its off line...

We've been discussing new counters for a decade but the appliance damage is making change imperative.

Researching storage, appliances, etc, etc. Is hell to deal with these so called 'experts' and the prices are completely nuts as are the order delays. I think these 'kitchen designers' are scammier than a used car salesman.

Three days ago I spotted our exact jennair downdraft cooktop, new in box, on craigslist for $200. Coerced spouse into buying it, a drop in replacement while we make up our mind what we want to do with this kitchen thing.

Yesterday she texts me "I see your $200 cooktop and raise you a $50 combination oven", she found the final verision of our kitchenaid superbe microwave/convection oven for $50, again new in box it had sat in someone's garage for past 8 years. Our spot is 28.5" wide so only a few ovens fit. Score!

I could install the cooktop but for oven we're going to hire an actual expert. Wife wants a warming drawer put in below it.

I'm thinking the best approach is we find a place to lay hands on various slider drawer technologies, see what can be done to improve actual problems which are mostly to do with storage access.

Once we've got a clear idea what we want we can shop around and pull the trigger once. Hopefully I can do the sliders and custom drawers and we just pay for new counters and an underhung sink.

Those two appliances are the major gripes, could save us a lot more than the $6k we saved compared to buying new.

Get me a couple pics and I will tell you what's needed to make the drawers work