My freezer will be about six feet away from my fridge in the pantry of my new house. I’m trying to locate a fridgerator only unit.
We’ve researched the web and can’t find just what we want.
Any suggestions as to where else to look?
Thanks
Roy
My freezer will be about six feet away from my fridge in the pantry of my new house. I’m trying to locate a fridgerator only unit.
We’ve researched the web and can’t find just what we want.
Any suggestions as to where else to look?
Thanks
Roy
In older homes like these, the main remodeling goal is often a more welcoming, more social, and more functional kitchen.
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Sub Z makes fridge only units
Otherwise you could go with a commercial unit like "True"
I'm pretty sure that I've seen them in Sears.
Youll pay more for a fridge only, you wont have an icemaker in it, and who wants to constantly go into a pantry to jab a spoon in the ice cream for a lick?
get a bottom freezer with the drawer type, set freezer section temp on high side and keep your beer and vodka in that part.
Roy, Whirlpool makes such a beast, and a matching freezer.
We were going to get both from Whirlpool until we noticed that they only offer a right hand door when we need a left and from what I understand it cannot be switched. There are other companys out there but either they are too exspensive or the model is too cheaply constructed.
Roy
I've never met a refrigerator door I couldn't switch, and easily at that. It is surprising how many people I know that didn't know that (or were they faking it so I'd do it for them?) But if the installation instructions say it can't be switched, so be it. But check the instructions. Could be that a new salesperson is like the idiot carpenter that discards half the nails because the nail head is on the wrong end. The other idiot carpenter points out that those are for the other side of the wall.
David Thomas Overlooking Cook Inlet in Kenai, Alaska
The Whirlpool would be my first choice in that price range, too. What other brands have you looked at? Summit, Liebherr is nice if you can find them, u-line can be a bit pricey, danby is kinda cheesy, but the Monogram has a choice on hinged sides.
My wife has been doing the research on line for the refridgerators and said she had checked out everything which is why I posted to everyone here for help. I forwarded the sites sent to me for her to look at. I'll have to check with her about the door switch at Whirlpool.
Thanks for the info
Roy
Good luck...I think we're going with a top-mount fridge. ;^)
DONT DO IT !
Same situation 2 years ago : We went with an ALL Fridge with a small freezer close by. WE LOVE IT. Top mount / Bottom mount any way you slice it you are hunched over half the time looking for something. Not so with the all fridge. Also : notice with the new refrigerant (since '95 I think) the evaporators have to be bigger to do the same job (the new stuff is not as efficient as pure freon) this means that the dividing section between fridge and freezer is thicker (more hunching) and for the same size of unit you get less interior space than you used to. I would never go all fridge without a freezer nearby (who wants to go downstairs for ice-cream?) but when you do you have the best of both worlds.........
Also : mechanically speaking : the most failure prone areas of a fridge are the defrost system / defrost elements and defrost timers.....with an all fridge you dont have any of these components since the evaporator only frosts when it runs, and when it stops between cycles the interior temp of the fridge is slightly above freezing so it drips off into a built in channel on the cabinet walls / then flows down to a tray underneath the unit. : SIMPLE : compressor / evap/ condenser/ thermostat : thats the whole system. Think about it.
Edited 1/6/2003 3:40:59 PM ET by cutter
Cutter, you're making me laugh. I have one of those 4 foot high "apartment size" fridges right now, so I'm used to bending waaay over. In a perfect world, I'd have both the sidekick freezer and fridge right next to each other, and I could shop, cook, and bake to my heart's content. I'd also take the Subzero drawers and a freezer-only undercounter unit, but that would have to be after I win the Lotto...
I don't know about 'merican prices : but my all fridge cost $550 CDN and I was expecting to pay $ 800-1000 for a fridge in the same league. I dont know about the lotto : but I have a mid size chest freezer bought new for $300 cdn. So I have way more convenience and cool storage for the same money I would have spent on a fridge/freezer combo.
As far as energy efficiency : yep : they are more efficient : not only do they not have to produce "freezin" temps , so they dont cycle as often / they dont use 1500 watt HEATERS to defrost the evaporator as most auto defrost do. Also : many fridge/freezers actually have a permanent heater working behind the metal which divides fridge from frezer on the face of the fridge to counteract condensation formed by the thermal difference across it . (A good fridge these days runs a line from the condenser (hot) right behind this plate to do the same thing without using expensive power) . I realize that running both means running 2 compressors / but figure the cost and maintenance over the life of both and I'd say I break even .
Does that mean it's using less energy, since the fridge isn't heating up the freezer section to defrost the cold air it put in?? Seems to me, since a fridge-freezer is the energy hog in the kitchen, that a fridge alone should use whole lot less. ... Worth thinking about next time we replace fridge.
I haven't seen anyone mention Northland refrigerators ... it's what a Sub-Zero wants to be when it grows up and learns how to work right.
As part of an upcomming move to a new house and shop we are going through a similar search. Good old Sears up here in Canada has what you are looking for, and I suspect the American Sears would have something similar.