Frig repair or buy a new one?

[Ed Pawlowski]

Sears is a big outfit with lots of service centers. Like any large outfit, some are good, some not so good. I guess you have one of the better ones. Same with installers at HD and Lowes or any other chain store.

[trader4]

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I went to the DOE Energy Star website and did the same thing with my

24 year old unit before I replaced it. The calculator on the website came up with a high number, think it was like $320 a year to operate. I measured it with a Killawatt meter for several days and it was actually running at $180 a year. The new one is running at $95 which is close to the label number.

So, treat those DOE generated numbers with caution. I think they are probably deliberately skewed to absolute worst case and may assume the door seals are shot and leaking, etc.