Gas stove repair vs new buying ?
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My gas stove was leaking yesterday night. So i got afraid and called a repair person today morning.
He replaced not just valve but suggested to replace the entire mechanism. Entire repair costed 1500. And just now I am realizing that a new one costs less than 1500! SO money wasted 
My question is how do you guys manage such a situation? How do you decide "on the spot" whether to proceed with repair or order a new gas stove?
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That is what my question is. How to decide "on the spot" ki should we repair or buy new? Once repairman is inside the house, it is very difficult to turn him back. And before assessment by repairman, we dont even know what will be the repair costs (+ we also dont know how much a new stove costs)
if the repair cost is exceeding or near the value of new equipment , better get new one .. once a equipment goes kaput and is repaired , there is always chance of its going kaput again ...
If maintenance cost is more than 30% buy new one in my opinion.
none of this glass top jazz.
So to begin with, we bought the nest quality that we could afford.
We also relied on feedback, recommendations from other users and sometimes the salespersons in stores were knowledgeable and further educated us that so and do model or so and so brand uses steel pipes and not aluminium.
Or that this one has this warranty or local service.
This model has that safety and so on.
In a small pad in a Tier2 town, I bought a local made stove of a foreign brand
but otherwise in big city, I have used a cooking range for over fifteen years.
Well actually i do not really use the oven part of the cooking range, I confess.
It was more like, XYZ cousin telling me that bhaiya i am happy with so and so cooking range I bought.
Me asking her the brand and realising that the same is not available in India.
(Cousin is near London.)
So out of impulse, I got a cooking range here. Had to get the whole granite counter and storage shelves below.. redone.
Had the kitchen platform cut and split and put the cooking range in between.
So with all this backstory
due to the dimensions, NO WAY am I frequently replacing a cooking range in a big city apartment in a high-rise building where the society people do not welcome heavy personal items being taken in the lift.
The cook-top (burner) part of the cooking range us well made
and we are careful in using it properly.
Never had an issue.
The glass panel/window on the (practically never used) oven door (of the cooking range).. once broke.. so manually repaired it myself by putting a 5-6mm thick acrylic sheet. It had to be cut to size, which shops in the area did it for a pittance.
Later, out of nagging by others, got the brand's own people to arrange the glass replacement and got it done from someone who worked within the service industry for years.
Part was from the brand, labour and fitting was from that person, who had previously worked for that brand too.
I old days, of Sunflame Surya and so on,
it was never really much more than a nozzle or valve issue, so got is locally replied or replaced at nominal charges.
In shifting residences if the supply pipe orientation had to be reversed (right to left or left to right) then for that too, we relied on local neighbours, landlords to guide us
and depending on which side there was space to keep the cylinder, we had the stove re-configured locally.
Major repairs were never really required.. until at-least nine or ten years of regular use.
Till then, the philosophy was to keep getting things repaired, not replaced.
In the more recent (but over a decade old now) glass top stove, that I spoke of, in the Tier-2 type city..
.. again there are no major repairs required.
I went with the brand whose local JV partner had good experience in making such things.
And i paid more but got a sturdy model.
No issue with leaks, that I know of.
Originally supplied end-caps of the burner weren't really of 100% brass or whatever, it seems
or the local dealer may have replaced them with fakes, while keeping the original end-caps.
Have had to replace them a few times locally, with whatever was available, because apparently people in our household love 'baingan ka bharta'
but directly use the burner to fire up the 'baingan'.
Needless to say, spilled milk or other things too clogged or affected the burner end-caps.
Not to mention the quality of the materials in those end-caps.
Finally i had a couple of them sourced directly from the Indian company/ manufacturer
and got two three wire mesh of different grades, thicknesses and have pleaded that the baingan be roasted/fired using those mesh as a semi-barrier.<,br>
Pay good once, if can and use properly thereafter.. is the motto.
Never had to replace or go in for major repairs on any 'gas chulha' for at-least the first 12-13 years.
Then again, hardly kept using older models beyond a point, especially if shifting ever 4-5 years.
How to decide "on the spot" ki should we repair or buy new?
- Actual cost vs Repair cost
- How long the equipment is expected to work post repair
- Age of the aquipment
- How critical the equipment is
- Cost of new
- Is there a need to upgrade
Solution - whenever anything goes faulty, the first thing to do is quick check the cost of new item on FK/AM 
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but ISI certification is important , while buying these equipments .
most online brands have no certification .
The technicians will loot in case of leakage. They unnecessarily change too many valves. I also felt buying a new one like Bajaj is much cheaper than repair.
Bought online few years ago... but now found good gas stove deals offline market.. try whole sale shops for less price 
go for any brand which is famous in your area with sales and easy spares and easy repair.
Alert was triggered by L00t word
pls use L00t term sensibly
Have you tried ChotuTufan 😜
You could have sold old to raddi wala they give 200-300 and bought new or sometimes flipkart has exchange offers
That is what my question is. How to decide "on the spot" ki should we repair or buy new? Once repairman is inside the house, it is very difficult to turn him back. And before assessment by repairman, we dont even know what will be the repair costs (+ we also dont know how much a new stove costs)
if the repair cost is exceeding or near the value of new equipment , better get new one .. once a equipment goes kaput and is repaired , there is always chance of its going kaput again ...