Bekos are rebadges Hotpoints, and I've got a Beko frost free which on a couple of occasions has just mushed along at 0C in the freezer compartment. Its to do with a build up of ice on the heat exchanger. Its easy enough to snap it back into operation ( hairdryer directed into the fanhole at the back of the freezer for 5 minutes ) but I've heard others complain about a similar fault so it might be one to ok out for.
Get an energy class A frost-free freezer is my advice, if they work properly its a great advance on defrosting the freezer and hacking ice out every so often.
If it lasted 15 years, another of the same brand???
My Hotpoint Iced Diamond is 11 years old and it still looks and performs like new. Quiet + smooth easy to wipe evaporator. One plastic clip broke on the lower inner door flap, replaced last year for a quid or two.
You might consider a frost-free if needed: - though there's more point for fridges over freezers - I defrost only once per year anyway, but your pattern of usage might be different to mine.
Hmmm, we'll see .... The Man From Hotpoint is coming tomorrow to look at our 3-month old Hotpoint Fridge Freezer which no longer fridges (freezer OK tho').
BTW be warned if buying a Hotpoint that the weasels in their marketing department (don't know about other makes) have decided that they can call a machine a 'Frost-Free Fridge Freezer' even if only the Freezer is frost-free. By their terminology you need a _Fully_ Frost Free Fridge Freezer (try saying that with a mouth full of cornflakes :-)
Thanks for the replies - lookin around not many upright freezers today seem a patch on my very old Electrolux. They may be more energy efficient, but the space inside seems much less for almost the same dimensions - a Tardis effect :)
Although frost-free and fridge/freezer seems great, as I have a 3 year old fridge and space for a freezer, I think I will go for a basic freezer and not frost free - nice when things work, but too much to go wrong, especially with a combined FF.
In the vast majority of cases the only thing in common between branded products from 15 years ago and today is the name... the ownership, design, manufacturing and quality will likely have changed massively. Hence, assuming a replacement with the same name will give you the same performance and longetivity is exactly the reason why the brands have changed hands so many times... there's money to be made from the logo alone.
As far as I am aware there's no such thing as a 'frost free' fridge.
Rather, they are 'automatic defrost' insofar that the cooling element is not located inside the fridge compartment but within the back panel. Hence, moist air doesn't come directly into contact with the elements and therefore doesn't freeze on contact. Where it does manage to freeze on the surfaces of the panel inside the fridge it soon melts when the compressor turns off given the >0c temperature inside the fridge.
Are you getting ice buildup in your fridge? If so, it sounds like it's knackered.
Not so much "flawed logic" as "omission of key fact", but you are right, in hindsight. Same with cars - buy a Cheverolet Matiz but you are really to all intents and purposes getting a Daewoo assembled by Vauxhall.
Even long lived names need some care too - Bosch Logixx products are (at the last count anyway) designed and built in Germany whereas their low end stuff is built in Spain. Probably safe with Miele though.
That does make a very interesting read. Didn't realise that Bosch, Siemens and Neff were co-owned.
IMHO, you are particularly lucky if you have space for a chest freezer; in which case don't even think of a fridge-freezer or an upright freezer (if such exists); upright far too easy to leave slightly open, especially if, like me, you visit it mainly after consumption of aperatifs --- though a sensor + alarm device from Maplin, properly sited, does give an adequate and early warning. For me, independence of fridge and freezer is comforting too.
My white goods repair man reckons that frost-free have too many additional things to go wrong --- I pass that on without evaluation. OTOH, when I went to buy a new fridge-freezer last year, the absence of frost-free greatly restricted the choice and appeared not to reduce the price by much.
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