Refrigerator thickness?

jhelgesen · 06-05-2007, 10:17 AM

Anyone near a 26 cuft side by side refrigerator?

I'm moving in on Thursday and having a fridge delivered on Friday. I was at the house today and measured each of the doors going into the kitchen and none of them are larger than 32". I know I'll have to pull the doors off the fridge, but what is the thickness of the unit from the back to the sealing surface for the door. I think they are around 30+"s, but need to be sure it fits.

Thanks!

Rot 911 · 06-05-2007, 10:19 AM

I've been looking at refrigerators online. Go to lowes.com They list the dimensions of the refrigerators they sell.

Rot 911 · 06-05-2007, 10:23 AM

I just took a quick look at lowes and it looks like most of the 26 cf side by sides are 28" deep without the doors.

jhelgesen · 06-05-2007, 10:41 AM

Cool, looks like the model I have is 28.5" without the doors. No problem. One less thing to worry about.

Thanks!

azasadny · azasadny's Garage

Be sure to take into account the space needed for the doors to swing open. Guess who didn't do that when they installed their new GE refrigerator???

FastCarFan · FastCarFan's Garage

More advice...Years ago we were buying a fridge for our family cottage. We were very, very careful to measure the width so that it would fit into the space between the cabinets.

The fridge was delivered &, as we pushed it into place, it stopped. Turns out it was too tall -- it hit the bottom of the upper cabinet. We were so focused on the width that we did not even think about the height.

I was just an old cottage, so we simply "notched" the bottom of the cabinet & slid it in.

Don't make the same mistake we made!