Is electric kettle worth fixing ++

No. Buy a new one.

There are a lot of community repair shops in the UK, but don't think they have taken off here. They repair and/or show you how to do it. The three are reduce, reuse, recycle. So if possible we should reuse more.

I have a dualit toaster. It's over 25 years old. Elements are easy to replace. I don't think I'll ever need to buy a replacement unit.

Last year they brought out a new classic kettle that has a replaceable element. It cost €170. Expensive, but I expect it will outlast me and I reckon I'll be around for another 35+ years.

But the bog standard kettles simply are not worth fixing as the parts are probably more expensive than a replacement.

Don't recycle it yet.

Keep it as a backup for when the new one stops working.

It's a kind of sods law that they always give up the ghost at an inconvenient time.

I had a kettle with a faulty switch, was a bit loose but working fine otherwise. It nearly burnt my house down as it stayed on after use, was the thermal cut out that actually turned it off and made me think it had come to the boil. Once the thermal cutoff cooled a bit, it would boil again.

Boiled dry overnight and kept heating the whole time until I happened to be walking by and heard it click and I just happened to decide to investigate. Whole thing was red hot, base melting.

Dump anything that is faulty, that's my advice. Not worth the risk.

A bog standard pot on a hob is the only backup you need - brilliant in a power cut if you have a gas hob.

Vinegar eats the limescale in minutes. A quick rinse out and no funny anti-scale flavour from your tea.

They used to be a simple fix back in the day

Replace the heater/stat unit

Well hopefully the circle is turning back to repairable electronics and electrics

Big business would simply destroy the environment with disposable items

The replacement back then fitted pretty much all models

The trend is probably back to repairing items now. There's new regulations re phones and stuff.to enable repair

Ya I knew a couple of tv repair guys .One was also my electronics lecturer . I did electronics and an apprenticeship at different times

Used to do a lot of repair work on crt displays when I worked in electronics

Manufacturers/Big business will simply destroy the planet if allowed to do so . Hopefully the wheel is turning full circle back to the days of repairing stuff

The separate power supplies is an obvious one when buying displays . They can be replaced easily

Is there not sections of a display unit which can be manufactured so as to be easily replaced after failure

There is a happy middle ground, between repairing everything and repairing nothing. The EU could go much further in limiting electronic waste. All it would take would be mandating a minimum lifespan for different items. It is simply shocking to see the level of items, some relatively new, in our local recycling centre.

Jaysus the vaccums and electric showers are a joke

I never bought an instantaneous electric shower for my own place when I was a REC . The units I was replacing were nearly as good as new.

Filters and shower heads blocked or heater tanks full of limescale or TCO replacement also

Pretty certain consumer bagless wet/dry units existed pre Dyson; my parents certainly had one when I was a kid. His design was also based on pre-existing industrial units.

The first Dyson vacuums just moved the required replacement from the bag to the filters; which were not cleanable and had to be binned and replaced.