We'll be going away from built-in when we get our kitchen redone. That way we can get a door-front control panel instead of the nothing ones along the door edge. So you get to see the progress of the cycle and don't have to guess whether it's done or not.
Hence the utter bewilderment so common when you are in a kitchen other than your own and have barely any hint as to what is behind each door. DW? Fridge? Cupboard? Blank to cover something up? Waste bin? Where the hell is the freezer?
I suppose gargantuan over-sized US-type fridges do at least make themselves fairly obvious... :-)
Siemens/Bosch/Neff; we've had one for nearly 12 years now and in that time it has only required a pressure chamber. Very quiet in operation and performance is great. I can't speak for the newer models though!
Our dirt cheap integrated Beko has performed faultlessly for several years now. I'm not at all convinced that more expensive lasts (pro rata) longer in kitchen equipment.
Where I used to live, two local supermarkets had chilled areas - where half an aisle or so had flappy curtains at each end and a damned powerful cooler. Customers really did have to walk through them to get their butter, cheese and milk. One closed, the other got totally refurbed - so neither existed even before I left the area.
Our bog-standard Bosch (free-standing) was bought in 1996 and is still going strong. One of the wheels supporting the upper tray broke a couple of years ago - two replacements cost well under a tenner.
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