Do I have to replace fridge-freezer?

How sad we have this throw-away society.

Would you replace your car just because you have a puncture in a tyre?

Because that was the first catalog shop with a web store that came to mind.

I'd be interested to know of any shop selling fridges with power use under 70Kwh/year, or fridge/freezers under 150.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember snipped-for-privacy@technologist.com saying something like:

Bit daft though, having a 'Push to Test' sign on a live trigger.

Break Glass for Wirecutters.

looking at undercounter size fridges heres a bosch that uses

When the grading thing first stared I remember most fridges being B's some even C now they are nearly all A. I'm betting my old Zanusi's grade would be "unclassified".

Last I heard there was no method of safe disposal and currently all old fridges are being stored in vast graveyards slowly rusting away if not waiting in the street or in a front yard for the scrap metal man thats never gona call.

I agree, and there is satisfaction in keeping old things running.

Argos - order code 4856982, 20 quid more (the cheapest one without a freezer compartment) does 168Kwh/year, maybe there are only significant differences at the top of the market.

Unclassified may not be bad.

I measured a ~20 year old cheap fridge, and it was about the same as a current 'a' rated one.

Interesting! What were the models you did your measuring on and what were the results?

Sorry, I don't remember the model. It was one that was picked up from the tip - as a temporary place to store stuff, compared to published figures.

Were you measuring the consumption while running or over a prolonged period? A well-insulated A grade fridge may well use as much while running but needs to run for a lot less time.

About a week.

So you did your own research over period of a week that showed a fridge that someone had chucked out, and which you established was 20 years old, was as good as the best of the new ones and you dont even remember which model it was...

Who would see a heap of dirty old fridges, rusting outside at the council tip, and think "I'll take one of these home to store things in"?

I bet you dont remember what you used to do the measuring.

It was needed to store food temporarily in a flat that was only going to be used for a short period, before a long distance move.

Buying a fridge, and having to transport it would have added enormously to the cost. If that one hadn't worked, it was going back for a full refund. The other option was doing without a fridge for a couple of weeks, which would be annoying.

I tested it using a maplin power meter, out of interest, and was surprised at the reading, so verified it later, getting more or less the same number.

And it was actually just being dropped off, not one of a rusting heap.

Sorry to ask a really elementary question, but where exactly is the thermostat likely to be? Is it part of the instruments at the front, or is it to be found with the refrigerating apparatus at the back?

I should really get a new fridge-freezer, as this one is quite old. But I'm reluctant to do that as the freezer works fine. Are they normally one unit; or can an expert replace the fridge part, say?

The temperature dial adjusts the thermostat, and is typically on the right inside the fridge. This stat has a long thin flexible metal capillary tube with a bulb on the end, which is threaded through Hades and back. The tube can not be removed from the stat - at least not without making the thing useless.

NT

Google images for zanussi thermostat will show you what you are looking for, except that the probe won't be neatly coiled in your frig.

Douglas de Lacey.