**Dual icemaker with Craft Ice **
Dual icemakers automatically create standard ice cubes, crushed ice, and slow-melting round Craft Ice for all your entertaining needs.
Well isn’t that fancy…. I could add the slow melting round Craft Ice to my Podium insulated water bottles and have nice cold water for my entire bike ride this summer!
Sorry to hear it.
When we lived in FL, we were out of town for a week and while we were away, there was a lightning strike that nuked the whole house, including the refrigerator. We returned to a full fridge that hadn’t been cool for 5 days in mid-summer Florida. That was fun. My wife is a forensic anthropologist, and at some point midway through scooping out a bag of liquified cucumber, she muttered, “I’d rather deal with a rotting corpse than this nastiness…”
Refrigerators/ freezers never seem to fail in the winter time. It’s always at a time when you can’t save the food by just putting it on a shelf in the garage.
We bought the same fridge last year! I didn’t know the price though!
The fancy ice is fun, but not really practical. You can hear the machine when it drops a ready cube, I think only 1-2 a day.
My complaints with the fridge are the lack of door space on the left side, it’s really narrow so not many condiments fit there. And the way it’s set up doesn’t leave a lot of room for tall items. But the knocking on the door or front open thing just for milk is handy. (Whether it actually saves on electricity, who knows.) Anyway, it’s a pretty fridge! Our last one was dying.
Have you ever cleaned out the dust that collects underneath around the condenser? If it builds up, it makes the fridge less efficient and also helps shorten the life span. The best way I have found to clean it is to blow compressed air on it, but it can make a small mess.
My rental property had a fridge die last summer that was definitely less than 10 years old. Unfortunately my tenants were out of the country for 3 weeks and it happened sometime in that stretch. They pushed the fridge outside and I could smell it 10 feet away (outside), with all the doors closed. Be glad you caught it within 24 hours.
my mom says one of her nastiest life experiences was cleaning out a fridge and deep freezers when they were allowed back into their home post-katrina. most people just duct taped their fridge closed and put it out on the sidewalk but my mom chose to clean and keep.
That’s a bummer. To put a positive spin on it, we have the same refrigerator you’re getting and we love it. The only difference I see is that we have a solid righthand door instead of clear. Love the middle drawer which can be changed between fridge and freezer. Also the craft ice is actually pretty cool for cocktails and kids’ drinks.
Not as bad as a thaw my in-laws. They noticed a bad smell in one of their rooms last week.
Long story short, they got their bathrooms remodeled over the winter. Contractor neglected to hook the sewer system back up to the septic tank. They’ve been shitting into their crawl space all winter. Just started noticing it now during spring thaw.
Oh man. Did the contractor say that it wasn’t his fault?
Oh man. Did the contractor say that it wasn’t his fault?
I’m staying out of it as best I can! I’m sure I’ll hear eventually.
Holy shit, that’s one of the worst contractor screw ups I’ve ever heard. Burn it down and rebuild.
Not fixable for less than $4k?
Sure. Pay almost $1,500-$2,000 to repair a 7 year old fridge or buy a new one.
Makes sense. I assume you checked that it wasn’t just unplugged? And free to plug it in.
*our cleaning crew did this one year, after cleaning back there.
It was powered on but no longer refrigerated or froze stuff.
Yes, I unplugged to see if a power cycle would kickstart whatever wasn’t working (compressor, condensor). Nope.
Have you ever cleaned out the dust that collects underneath around the condenser? If it builds up, it makes the fridge less efficient and also helps shorten the life span. The best way I have found to clean it is to blow compressed air on it, but it can make a small mess.
I do that every couple of months so that’s not the issue.
So many possible comments.
Basement and 2nd fridges don’t work as hard, as not opened as often,(old fridges) use a really bad (for environment), but good refergerant, so the compressors work less hard, but also old compressors were not as efficent so more wasted electricity. You know why old stuff lasts longer, they didn’t know how to optimize it, so its over built, you paid upfront for that overbuild, and everyone did it so it didn’t seem like an issue. Now everyone looks for the low cost. (Its why speed queens are still the most durable washer out there, and 3x the cost of others)
That Fridge is on sale up here for $3500
Always wonder who bought a $4k fridge… now I know. – what’s the middle draw for?
$300 in food loss is trivial vs the $4k for the fridge… Mine dies I lose probably $500 of food and have to spend another $800 for a new one.
Should check local appliance store scratch and dent stock. we have a large appliance store / local chain (I think up to 5 stores now) they have a separate scratch and dent outlet, same day pick up delivery and if your appliance is built in do you really care if the side is scratched? Just bought a washing machine for 50% off sale price (80%ish off msrp) full warranty, and has a scratch and small dent on the side no one sees, and scratch in front wife sees when she does the laundry… well probably not cause you would need to look at the front and its a top loader.
Be happy, your in the situation you can afford to drop $4k on a fridge, be even happier your in a situation you can drop $4k unplanned, and mostly just move on with life.
Kind of in the same way that Velocibudda thought a $50,000 car was expensive, a $3,500 refrigerator is not that expensive and probably on the high end of average. I just looked at Best Buy’s website. They have 50 pages of fridges on their website with 18 per page. That fridge popped up on page 24 of 50 when sorted by price (high to low). You can’t just select all fridges on Home Depot’s site but I selected french door fridges. They have 251 of those online. The one I bought was 70th highest priced out of the 251 french door fridges.
You want to look up expensive fridges take a look at Sub-Zero, Viking, Thermador or ZLINE. Even KitchenAid and GE (their Café line) have some five figure fridges.
Sorry to see this. Have you had any luck finding a new one?
Not only are appliances crap these days, they’re had to get. Be careful, sometimes they’ll tell you that they can have it in 5 days only to tell you on the 4th day that it’s going to be 3 weeks.
Good luck!
It is threads like this that remind me how lucky I am to have married my wife. She can fix anything.
That’s me in this relationship. So far in this house I fixed the **dishwasher **(leaking water intake valve), **fridge **(the Samsung flaw when the air ducts ice up because ice tray is in the fridge instead of the freezer), **TV **(bad component in the power supply), computers (many times for various issues), **Solar **power for our backyard pond (easy because I built it), leaking gutter (guy swore it was sealed - it wasn’t), **caulking **(hate it), her car (blown fan motor controller board, a bad transistor on it), several power outlets (backstabbing eventually fails please use the screw terminals!), **drainage **(we had standing water in the yard), heat pump (a short on the low voltage lines due to insulation rubbing VERY hard to find but easy to fix), **smart thermostat **(output transistor on the yellow wire failed short and the heat pump tried to run when the furnace didn’t. causing overpressure)
OTOH my wife can boil water? Maybe?
It is threads like this that remind me how lucky I am to have married my wife. She can fix anything.
My wife can research and buy anything. We had a new riding lawn mower delivered yesterday.
**fridge **(the Samsung flaw when the air ducts ice up because ice tray is in the fridge instead of the freezer)
The fridge before the latest one that shit the bed was one of those Samsung fridges. Best Buy came out to warranty fix that ice issue so many times in a five year span that about seven years ago they refunded all my money. That’s when I bought the fridge that died yesterday.
This is almost my exact fridge. My wife really wanted the craft ice feature, I didn’t care and didn’t want to have something else to worry about.
So many possible comments.
Basement and 2nd fridges don’t work as hard, as not opened as often,(old fridges) use a really bad (for environment), but good refergerant, so the compressors work less hard, but also old compressors were not as efficent so more wasted electricity. You know why old stuff lasts longer, they didn’t know how to optimize it, so its over built, you paid upfront for that overbuild, and everyone did it so it didn’t seem like an issue. Now everyone looks for the low cost. (Its why speed queens are still the most durable washer out there, and 3x the cost of others)
That Fridge is on sale up here for $3500
Always wonder who bought a $4k fridge… now I know. – what’s the middle draw for?
$300 in food loss is trivial vs the $4k for the fridge… Mine dies I lose probably $500 of food and have to spend another $800 for a new one.
Should check local appliance store scratch and dent stock. we have a large appliance store / local chain (I think up to 5 stores now) they have a separate scratch and dent outlet, same day pick up delivery and if your appliance is built in do you really care if the side is scratched? Just bought a washing machine for 50% off sale price (80%ish off msrp) full warranty, and has a scratch and small dent on the side no one sees, and scratch in front wife sees when she does the laundry… well probably not cause you would need to look at the front and its a top loader.
Be happy, your in the situation you can afford to drop $4k on a fridge, be even happier your in a situation you can drop $4k unplanned, and mostly just move on with life.
Kind of in the same way that Velocibudda thought a $50,000 car was expensive, a $3,500 refrigerator is not that expensive and probably on the high end of average. I just looked at Best Buy’s website. They have 50 pages of fridges on their website with 18 per page. That fridge popped up on page 24 of 50 when sorted by price (high to low). You can’t just select all fridges on Home Depot’s site but I selected french door fridges. They have 251 of those online. The one I bought was 70th highest priced out of the 251 french door fridges.
You want to look up expensive fridges take a look at Sub-Zero, Viking, Thermador or ZLINE. Even KitchenAid and GE (their Café line) have some five figure fridges.
Well not really, the same, as a quick google seems to say most fridges are in the $500 - $2000 range with High end ones running up to $12k. As where on a car the cheapest you can find new is probably $25k so avg is only double the low end. If we assume the same on the fridge that puts it at about $1000, I would guess the avg is closer to $2k. Yes there are expensive high end appliances, but they do not make up the bulk of the purchases.
Again, Just like someone saying I totaled my car I had to go out and buy a $50k or $75k new car… No you choose to spend that, You can buy a perfectly fully functioning car for far less, and you can buy a very nice fridge for a few thousand. You choose to go to the higher end, and that’s fine. Its just not something I can feel much compassion for. A $4k fridge is a high end fridge. sure its the low end of the higher end stuff, but its a high end one.
I mean not only does it have an in door ice and water dispenser its makes custom ice, not really something most houses have or need.
Again, no issues with you spending your money how you want, but Its hard to feel bad that you “had” to drop $4k unexpectedly.