My Daewoo fridge has weedy plastic shelves. After three years of normal use, ie filling the fridge up with food, they have fallen to bits. New ones cost =A326 a piece (not a set, each!). I don't see the point of buying more rubbish ones so i think I should replace with glass. Can anyone tell me where I could get some toughened glass cut with nice rounded edges suitable for this job?
Cheers,
John
Cheers,
John
A glass erchant should be able to do this for you. look in EYP for your nearest one.
Bob
I needed new windows making for the sides of a landrover. I tried a local indy glass and window shop. They are around 18x12 inches with rounded corners and it cost me around £8 each to get toughened windows cut, and took them a few days to do it.
You will want to take them a template or the exact measurements
Bear in mind that the glass will prevent a free flow of air, and this might stop the fridge working properly. Symptoms would be similar to an overloaded fridge, i.e. some bits too cold/freezing, other bits to warm.
On 25 Feb 2007 22:24:11 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) mused:
Depends how the fridge is designed, many have glass shelves now but once the door is closed the air has a lmited space to move in anyway so only really has one place to go, and if it can't go through a shelf it will soon go around it.
Surely the plastic shelves would obstruct air the same as glass. My Sharp fridge has plastic shelves that have broken. I was thinking about getting wire shelves instead.
Depends how solid the plastic ones are. My parents have a Bosch (I think) with glass shelves, but there's a big gap down the back and front to allow air circulation. Compare that with my wire shelf fridge with bigger shelves, because it doesn't have to lose shelf area to allow air circulation. I don't know what the OP's plastic shelves are like, but I was imagining something which allowed air to pass through.
I take the point about air circulation, but the current shelves are pretty much flat and have no gaps. They do however have a channel to collect run-off, which I will not be able to replace. I'd prefer to get wire shelves, but have assumed that glass would be easier to have cut to fit.
That's what we thought when we wanted a new fridge a year or so ago, and they all seemed to have glass shelves. None of them seemed compelling, so we took one of the wire shelves from our old fridge to Comet and Currys, and bought one that the shelf fitted.
I hit on another idea. An old fridge was being thrown out up the road, so I took the shelves out of it. Good quality glass, fit OK, problem solved.
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