Too cute to be Napoleon besides, I think he is part of admiralty

Dear handyman who had installed the microwave before we bought this house and to the manufacturer of the microwave.

Two wrongs do make it right some time. It's been a few month when the microwave that came with the house went ZZZZ ZAP FLASH then HUGE KABOOM. Replacement for it was fairly low on the list of things as we had super cheap counter top micro. We only use to heat our drinks, and thaw out or to remove chill from left overs...

Black Friday and Cyber Monday came with some descent deals so we bought a new one. We weren't too particular about the features so it made it easy to pick. Came home from big box store. Removed the old micro over the range, installed the mounting bracket for the new one. Then I pulled out the new micro out of the box. Funny thing??? Top right side had weird curve to it. It was crushed. Remove the new mounting bracket, return the crushed unit to the box store for a replacement. But none available in stock so they would have to order it with delivery charge... No thanks. So found another unit for the same price but it didn't have the features of the crushed unit. Power down feature would have been very nice but oh well.

Came home with the second micro. This time I took it out of the box and made sure it was intact and all the pieces there and it was.

Now about the handyman who had installed the last one. He had swiss cheesed the shelf over the micro because well god knows why? I couldn't use it so I had demo it out and install a new shelf. Pre-cut the opening for the vent, plug hole, mounting hole and installed. Installed cabinets are not square. so had to cut the shelf crooked to fit in the cabinet. made sure the shelf I installed was level left to right and front to back.

And the vent duct work. What a piece of wood work. Demo'd it out too. And I see why there was so much draft coming into the house. BTW, the broken microwave had the vent fan installed all wrong and it was set to vent into the room and not through the vent duct out of the top.

The replacement micro has the same exterior dimension so it was easy to line up the new mounting brackets. popped in the micro and raised it into place. The micro is tilted down on the front side by over an half an inch. Now that we think about it, it explains why the old microwave door flung open. bottom of the mounting bracket is butted up to splash board granite tile. Tried cutting with my angle grinder/saw and it just ate threw the abrasive saw. Didn't want to hammer out the tile... Long story short, I managed to mount the bracket 1/2" lower, install the microwave into place. level left to right and now its about 3/32" low in the back.

So had the micro not blow up, we would never have figured out that it was installed incorrectly. Handyman's handywork was so bad, I didn't have to think about how to make it work. It was back to the drawing board. As for the vent duct work, I think I will make it out of 1/16" thick aluminum (I happen to have sizeable sheets of it).

So now, the door doesn't fly open. Venting actually will vent to the outside, have a shelf over the micro that we can actually use. Everything is now right well except for not being quite level front to back. YAYYY!!!

So appliances either fixed or replace since my teenage days: dryer (repaired several times over), washer (repaired once or twice) dishwasher (repaired once), replaced at least half a dozen garbage disposal, install brand new sink with new faucets, replaced counter top stove, garage door opener (repaired once) and now replaced microwave. Then there was the complete rewiring of my parents house, complete rebuild of my partners deck at her house. I had to demo all of the deck including the footing.

Who says women can't do these things? Whooey to them. I'm a happy camper for now.