80s Jenn Air Range, 80s wash/dryer, 70s Fireplace

[carmine]

I'm an elected official of a local city government in the Detroit area. Our city has a policy of purchasing county-foreclosed homes and rehabbing them to code before they are sold. (In our county, all city governments have a "first-right-of-refusal" if we bring the taxes up to date.)

The upshot of this is that many of the homes still have furnishings inside. We put these items out to bid, and second hand shops submit their highest offer and take what they want. Typically any appliances are broken junk from the 90s/00s, and the second hand stores neither want them, nor have the means to remove/resell them. No tragedy there; I'm happy to see them make the return trip to China as scrap.

However, this year one home has two items I that might be of interest to someone here. The first is a Jenn Air range, which looks to be from the 80s? I think we'd probably want $100 to make this worthwhile.

If you are interested in any of these, please contact me at [email protected]

I'll need to contact our city attorney and be sure I'm not committing an ethics violation (need to be sure the second hand shops aren't interested, although they never are...) I just figured they might be of interest to someone here. No shipping, so be prepared to remove and transport them from St. Clair Shores, MI. (48081)

 

[carmine]

Second photo has this retro-cool fireplace and you can see some of the matched washer/dryer set in the background. I recall these being early 80s Whirlpools? Maybe Kenmores?

I'll say $100 for the fireplace and $100 for the set of washer/dryer.

Just figured it might make someone's day here...

 

[rp2813]

That Jenn Air looks just a bit older than the 1990 dual fuel one we had at our other house.  The modular grill assembly for the one pictured might still be kicking around that house somewhere. 

 

I found the gas cooktop on ours to be flimsy and short on BTU's, but the electric oven baked and roasted beautifully, both with and without the convection option activated, and the minute timer would continue to provide a beep every 30 seconds or so for about ten minutes after time had expired, a feature that I was thankful for in more than one instance.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Did Jenn Air ever design a convection oven that did not operate the vent fan while the oven was in convection mode? Those ranges could pull a lot of heated or cooled air out of the house during a long baking or roasting operation.

 

[chachp]

My Jenn-Air Ovens

seem to run the vent fan regardless of whether I am in convection or conventional heating. At least the top oven does. I haven't paid enough attention to see if the bottom oven operates the same way. I suspect it does but I don't use it as much as the top. I never thought about it pulling heated or cooled air out of the kitchen but it makes sense that it would.

And the vent fan seems to run for a long time after the oven is turned off. I don't know if it runs for a certain amount of time or if it runs until the oven drops to a certain temp. Does anyone know?

 

[rp2813]

Our free standing unit didn't run the exhaust fan while convecting. 

 

Even when broiling or cleaning, although there was a pronounced fan sound louder than that of the convection fan, it wasn't the exhaust fan.  Perhaps by 1990 they had changed things.