Frostfree fridge freezers- are they any good or should I just stick to the normal one when renewing?
We want a fridge above freezer below. Max width 55cms. Max height
1.7MAny suggestions as the last time we bought one was 18 years ago and things have changed since then
my personal preferance, i'd get a non frost free jobbie anyday, the frost free's consume more power operating the frost free bit (not sure about nowadays, used to be a small heater element around the condenser coils operated every 23 hours)
we have a fridge over a freezer unit, uses fans and motorized duct flaps to draw cold air from the freezer to cool the fridge, even tho it's frost free, it still freezes up around the fan in the back of the freezer, makes a hell of a racket when the ice contacts the blades,
so we have to manually defrost the bugger anyway, which is handy as it allows us to get rid of all the little bits of veggies and the like in the bottom of bags that's taking up room yet will never be eaten by us (our fancy rats love the frozen veggies tho, dunno why i cant remember the left overs in the freezer and feed them with it sooner, but somehow they hide in the bottom of a freezer and only surface when you clean it out :)
Most fridge freezers seem to be 55 to 60 cm's nowadays, used to be able to get 50cm ones, but not no more, i wanted one for my motorhome as the door is
50.5 cm's wide, had to get a 12 volt compressor version at 49cm wide in the end, at 500 bloody quid, uses just as much power as a domestic one would have running off my inverter,
Tried both. Frost free fridge - OK, frost-free freezer more trouble than it's worth. I've got an AEG Fuzzy-logic one now. FF fridge over normal freezer - lovely (6 years on) takes just two hours to defrost.
R.
What he said. Don't!
They also tend to have lousy temperature control due to one minute the heater is warming the thing up to melt the ice, then the next its running flat out to bring the temp back down again..
Tim..
We have a small galley style kitchen so the width is important. Current model is 50cms. The cooker too is slimline. A tricity 46cms wide so god knows how we will manage if that ever needs replacing.
Looks like frost free freezer is a nono. Gives us more choice but I really do hate the annual freezer deicing :(
Wish I could train the wife to do it without destroying the thing.
If it lasted 18 years I'd buy another one of them :-)
The 'frost free' ones do it for you, usually without warning and while full of food.
simply bag up your frozen foods and ask a freind or relative to 'mind them' for a few days, switch the thing off for 48 hours after lining the bottom with old bath towels.
Funny, but that's what I thought as well. It lasted 18 years, so it's a good un'. I'd be looking for something exactly the same.
They'll have "improved" their range since then :-(
So you are looking for an 18 year old model then :-)
Adam
Aren't we all, ducky? Aren't we all?
Like others said, not having to defrost is nice but not really worth the dramatic drop in reliability that comes with it.
NT
Tricity Bendix. Not a brand available in any of the shops in this area anymore. A quick google only comes up with spares and cookers. I'm not going to get it fixed. Experience tells me once one part goes on something this old the rest of it is not far behind.
Indeed so. When I came to replace an aged fridge-freezer, to get the same internal capacity, I had to go for bigger overall dimensions, because the insulation nowadays is so much thicker.
Chris
Having realised the running costs of our old chest freezer are astronomical we're looking for a new one. There's not much choice around the size required (13 cu ft) that will fit in the space available. They're all much larger. We'll prolly go for a Leibherr.
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