TidyBoss
Find your appliance's age from its serial number
TidyBoss is a free set of home maintenance tools for homeowners. The main one is an appliance age calculator: enter the serial number from a refrigerator, washer, dryer, dishwasher, garbage disposal, water heater or HVAC unit, and it decodes the manufacture date using that brand's date-code format. It then shows the typical lifespan for that appliance, what tends to fail at that age, and whether a repair is worth paying for. TidyBoss also has an HVAC filter finder and a home maintenance budget calculator.
Features
- Decodes appliance serial numbers into manufacture dates across 100+ brands
- Shows typical lifespan for your exact appliance type
- Flags what tends to fail at your appliance's age
- Repair-vs-replace guidance based on age and typical repair costs
- HVAC filter size finder
- Home maintenance budget calculator
Use Cases
- A homeowner deciding whether a broken appliance is worth repairing
- A homebuyer checking how old the appliances are before making an offer
- A landlord budgeting maintenance and replacements across units
- Anyone wondering how much life their water heater or HVAC has left
Comments
As a homeowner I kept hitting the same question: is this appliance worth fixing, or am I throwing money at a 15-year-old machine? The manufacture date is hiding in the serial number, but every brand encodes it differently — so I built a decoder that reads them all, then tells you what's likely to fail at that age and whether the repair bill makes sense.
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As a homeowner I kept hitting the same question: is this appliance worth fixing, or am I throwing money at a 15-year-old machine? The manufacture date is hiding in the serial number, but every brand encodes it differently — so I built a decoder that reads them all, then tells you what's likely to fail at that age and whether the repair bill makes sense.
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