Recommend your refrigerator

[Anonymous]

I am embarrassed to admit I have a 27 year old (you read that right) BLACK Kenmore refrigerator in my kitchen that works great. I only had one repair years ago with the water dispenser. I wish this thing would break so I could purchase another guilt free.

[Anonymous]

I think the thing is appliances 20 and even 10 years ago were pretty solid. <10 years old are all junk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get Samsung double door with freezer on the bottom from Costco.
If you’re like me turn off the ice maker that is where a lot of problems start.
Just buy ice from supermarket when you need it.

Samsungs are the worst avoid completely.

There are a lot of people happy with it including me.

[Anonymous]

10 years is pretty standard for refrigerators nowadays, unfortunately. Even our GE refrigerator died after 10 years. We actually replaced it with an LG, but we did research to ensure it was one of the newer LG fridges with the standard compressor and not the compressor that kept failing for them. The repairman we talked to when we were trying to decide if we should fix the GE or not said to avoid Samsung but newer LGs are fine.

[Anonymous]

The refrigerator repairmen of Reddit agree with the PP who said "the more and bells and whistles, there more there is to fail". They all recommend against the fridges that have an extra drawer in the middle (the kind that you can use for snacks or doubles as an extra freezer drawer). Basically every external door or drawer that is a separate compartment requires its own cooling elements. Which means, of course, more to fail.

They also say that a fridge without any sort of water compartment in the door (no in door water, no in door ice maker) is less likely to fail, but that's a hard sell if you ask me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get Samsung double door with freezer on the bottom from Costco.
If you’re like me turn off the ice maker that is where a lot of problems start.
Just buy ice from supermarket when you need it.

Samsungs are the worst avoid completely.

There are a lot of people happy with it including me.

Let me guess, you've had it less than five years?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The refrigerator repairmen of Reddit agree with the PP who said "the more and bells and whistles, there more there is to fail". They all recommend against the fridges that have an extra drawer in the middle (the kind that you can use for snacks or doubles as an extra freezer drawer). Basically every external door or drawer that is a separate compartment requires its own cooling elements. Which means, of course, more to fail.

They also say that a fridge without any sort of water compartment in the door (no in door water, no in door ice maker) is less likely to fail, but that's a hard sell if you ask me.

A repairman told me that 80% of his calls are for in door water/ice dispensers. And that the lines get very gross.

[Anonymous]

We love our Whirlpool 33 inch bottom freezer fridge. Not a French door, but one big door with movable shelves inside. Love it!

[Anonymous]

I had a horrible experience with Samsung with two failing within three years (first replacement was under warranty). Avoid. We have GE French door now and like it a lot.

[Anonymous]

We have a GE French door that's maybe 5 years old now. Happy with it. Got a great deal because it was scratched too--we just keep them covered with magnets and kid stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The refrigerator repairmen of Reddit agree with the PP who said "the more and bells and whistles, there more there is to fail". They all recommend against the fridges that have an extra drawer in the middle (the kind that you can use for snacks or doubles as an extra freezer drawer). Basically every external door or drawer that is a separate compartment requires its own cooling elements. Which means, of course, more to fail.

They also say that a fridge without any sort of water compartment in the door (no in door water, no in door ice maker) is less likely to fail, but that's a hard sell if you ask me.

A repairman told me that 80% of his calls are for in door water/ice dispensers. And that the lines get very gross.

Yup, that echoes what Reddit says.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am embarrassed to admit I have a 27 year old (you read that right) BLACK Kenmore refrigerator in my kitchen that works great. I only had one repair years ago with the water dispenser. I wish this thing would break so I could purchase another guilt free.

My 25 year old fridge just died.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get Samsung double door with freezer on the bottom from Costco.
If you’re like me turn off the ice maker that is where a lot of problems start.
Just buy ice from supermarket when you need it.

Samsungs are the worst avoid completely.

There are a lot of people happy with it including me.

DP -- I've had mine for 15 and been happy with it, but I've heard enough warnings that I'm not sure what I'll do when it dies.

Fwiw, it has an icemaker but no through-the-door stuff

Let me guess, you've had it less than five years?

[Anonymous]

Really happy with our Bosch French-door fridge Samsung was horrible- constantly needed repairs.

[Anonymous]

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