About FixOrBuy

FixOrBuy exists for one moment: a repair quote in your hand, a price tag in your browser tab, and no framework for choosing. We publish decision calculators and per-appliance guides that treat the repair-or-replace question as arithmetic with honest uncertainty — the 50% rule, cost per remaining year, and the sourced lifespan data that feeds both.

How we build pages

Every factual page follows the same discipline. Claims about lifespans, repair costs, energy use and safety come from published, fetchable sources — the NAHB/Bank of America life-expectancy study (Feb 2007), ENERGY STAR program pages, FTC consumer guidance, EPA/CPSC safety guidance, utility safety pages, and dated cost guides from Angi. We do not invent "typical costs": where no credible source exists, we give the method (get 2–3 written quotes) instead of a number. Where the widely cited 50% rule can't be traced to a verbatim public source — Consumer Reports' tool is member-gated — we say that plainly rather than manufacturing a quote. Every page carries a "Last verified" date showing when its sources were last fetched and checked.

What we are not

We are not repair technicians, and nothing here is professional repair, financial or safety advice. Our safety line is deliberately conservative: any work on gas appliances, their connections or venting belongs to licensed technicians, and microwave cabinets stay closed. When guidance and gut disagree, trust the license.

Money

The site is funded by advertising and clearly-disclosed affiliate links (marked rel="sponsored nofollow"). We do not publish invented reviews, rank providers we haven't evaluated, or accept payment for coverage — see the disclosure page.

Spot an error or a stale figure? That's the most useful email we can receive: Vantoron@gmail.com.