mark_wpduet
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Saturday morning I opened my freezer to get the frozen blueberries and noticed everything was thawing. I freaked out and called appliance repair - he came out and said compressor was shot. The fridge was a whirlpool side x side and it was 12 and a half yrs old. It had been repaired twice and ice maker replaced once and that was DIY. The 2 repairs weren't expensive. Once it was a capacitor or something and another time it was a relay I think.
I was so bummed out about having to buy a new one but here's the one I bought. I'm sure the longevity of this one will be even worse. One thing it has a REALLY small dent on the door so they gave me 100 dollars off. I think it was $1100 not on sale, it was $999 on sale plus 10% off, plus another 10% off for the dent. So low $800s.
The door was uneven from the factory and the installer couldn't get it even and he said they do not like to do this but he had to lay it on its back which he did carefully and then fixed the uneven door. He said not to plug it in for an hour to let it rest back into place. I ended up cleaning the inside all over and even had to get the vacuum cleaner to part of it because there were these little pieces of packing material.. Later, I plugged it in. I have thermometers in and in 2 and a half hours it reached 38 in the fridge and 0 in the freezer and started dropping ice after about 2 hours. I was shocked because it says it will take 24 hours for the fridge to cool enough to put food in and start making ice.
It says to discard the first 3 batches of ice. I assume by batch of ice it means when the ice maker drops ice, that's one batch, right? I hope they don't mean a full bin of ice is a batch.
I'm not hopeful it will last 10 years. Who knows!!? On the bright side, the food loss was minimal because there were things that needed to be tossed anyway.
There's zero info on coil cleaning. I guess they hope customers won't do that. I always did with my other one. I blew out the coils with my rainbow vacuum once per year.
I was so bummed out about having to buy a new one but here's the one I bought. I'm sure the longevity of this one will be even worse. One thing it has a REALLY small dent on the door so they gave me 100 dollars off. I think it was $1100 not on sale, it was $999 on sale plus 10% off, plus another 10% off for the dent. So low $800s.
The door was uneven from the factory and the installer couldn't get it even and he said they do not like to do this but he had to lay it on its back which he did carefully and then fixed the uneven door. He said not to plug it in for an hour to let it rest back into place. I ended up cleaning the inside all over and even had to get the vacuum cleaner to part of it because there were these little pieces of packing material.. Later, I plugged it in. I have thermometers in and in 2 and a half hours it reached 38 in the fridge and 0 in the freezer and started dropping ice after about 2 hours. I was shocked because it says it will take 24 hours for the fridge to cool enough to put food in and start making ice.
It says to discard the first 3 batches of ice. I assume by batch of ice it means when the ice maker drops ice, that's one batch, right? I hope they don't mean a full bin of ice is a batch.
I'm not hopeful it will last 10 years. Who knows!!? On the bright side, the food loss was minimal because there were things that needed to be tossed anyway.
There's zero info on coil cleaning. I guess they hope customers won't do that. I always did with my other one. I blew out the coils with my rainbow vacuum once per year.
