refrigerator

[Rusty Heap]

The new fridges DO offer tons more room, brighter LED lighting, and are soooooo much more efficient.


Just with my wife and I with a 20 year old side-by-side, found we couldn't fit full sized dinner plates with left-overs onto the shelves which was a PITA, as well as with that narrow ~15" wide door old food would get pushed to the back and would turn into a Biology experiment. Wasted Food, Poor Storage layout, and an icemachine that didn't work anymore I said enough is enough, we're getting something new.

so we went from this ~25 cu foot:




To THIS:


31 cu foot LG, stainless, tons of LED lighting, huge bottom freezer section, you can access all your food with ease, and I think it only uses ~100 dollars of electricity to run it per year. This doesn't have a standard induction motor compressor, but a magnetic impulse drive that moves the piston. Almost silent in operation, and was only $2500 at Home Depot.

WE LIKE............no...........WE LOVE IT.

[madmmac]

Newer Maytag = pos. I don't recall how many times it has broken 6-7??. The inside racks and drawers are pos. It's broken again right now.

Samsung at my other place, 1/3 the price of the Maytag and zero problems.

[rick-l]

Originally Posted by john70t

fwiw, Whirpool was bought by Maytag recently (or visa versa).
Corporate policy has changed.
Quality, perhaps as well.

In 2001 Maytag acquired Amana and proceeded to lose bucket loads of money in the next few years.

In 2006 they were sold to Whirlpool amidst a Chinese hostile takeover effort.

So yes Maytag = Whirlpool

[romad]

Old frigs are not he bees knees, The insulation degrades over time and the compressor wears. They may be running but not efficiently. Anyway SIR(service incident rates) are very close for all brands. Usually one maker is just enough above the other , especially for given products. For every ***** about one brand you'll find the same with all the others. Thing is appliances are commodities, margins are very small......build them like brick **** houses and no one buys them. You'll replace your 1000 dollar computer every 3 to 5 years, or a 40000 dollar car every 5 or 10, but "Godmn it all" if your 800 dollar washer breaks after 10.

[Rusty Heap]

you DO have other choices:


Ice houses allowed a trade in ice that was a major part of the early economy of the New England region of the United States, which saw fortunes made by people who shipped ice in straw-packed ships to the southern U.S. and throughout the Caribbean Sea. In winter months, ice was chopped from a lake surface and often dragged by sled to the ice house. In summer months icemen delivered it to residences in ice wagons or ice trucks, where it would be stored in an ice box, which was used much like a modern refrigerator.


A 1930 commercial icehouse near Ambler's Texaco Station in Dwight, Illinois, USA
Coney Island was a former icehouse as home and business refrigeration became more common, ice houses disappeared. The home ice delivery business declined, and was virtually gone by the late 1960s.

Smaller ice houses, usually no more than a sawdust pile covered by a makeshift roof or tarpaulin, continued to be maintained to store ice for use in local events such as fairs. Today, most ice for daily consumption is made in a home freezer, while bulk ice is manufactured, distributed and sold like other retail commodities.

Texas Ice HousesIn Texas, former ice houses are a cultural tradition. Ice merchants diversified to sell groceries and cold beer, serving as early convenience stores and local gathering places.

The widespread US 7-Eleven convenience store chain developed from ice houses operated by the Southland ice manufacturing company in Dallas and San Antonio in the 1930s, which were first known as Tote'm stores.

Today many Texas ice houses have converted into open-air bars. In the region of Central Texas and the Texas Hill Country in particular, the word "icehouse" has become a colloquialism for an establishment that derives the majority of its income from the sale of cold beer, especially such locally produced labels as Shiner Bock, Pearl, or Lone Star.