Frost-Free problem

[PJ]

last year we decided to replace our 20-year+ Electrolux fridge freezer. Did some homework and then ordered a Hotpoint FF90?, and when it arrived, we put the old one in the garage, pending disposal. However, it only took a day or so to reveal a problem which we simply hadn't considered- noise!

At certain times, in a quiet kitchen, the noise was just unacceptable. I've learned since that it would be a fan. It was returned and the original one re-instated. the time is approaching though when this will have to be replaced.

Has anyone else suffered from this? Is there any way at all of knowing beforehand just how loud a new model will be? Stockists and manufacturers are a little cagy when the subject is raised, which makes me fear the worst.

Regards and thanks in advance

Pat Macguire

[<Barbara]

"Ronald" wrote

The ice you wants also disappears as quickly as the ice you don't.

Using them fairly infrequently, I can never find ice cubes in my fridge when I want them. I can only assume that the mechanism which removes ice from the walls of my fridge removes them from the ice cube tray also.

I have to admit, though, that I don't miss the defrosting process, which was always a major undertaking since I never did it often enough.

Barbara

[L Reid]

Do you live in a flat where the bedroom is close to the kitchen? We have a noisy fridge freezer (Electrolux) but normally closing the kitchen door is enough to get rid of the noise.

[Toby]

Noise not a probelm with my Bosch FF fridge freezer. It does make an occasional 'crack' sound which is off-putting though. My old girlfriends cheap Servis FF fridge freezer did not have bad fan noise either but you could hear swooshing quit4e regularly.

Toby.

[DawnK]

manufacturers

I have had a Whirlpool Frost-free fridge, which was replaced a year-and-a-half ago with a Maytag frost-free fridge. I don't recall either fridge being that noisy, except when the whirlpool was on its last legs and you could hear it all over the house. It's a good thing, too, since we don't have a kitchen door to close!

Dawn

[Vox Humana]

I have an Amana FF side-by-side and the only noise I hear is the ice dropping into the bin. My mother had a GE FF refrigerator, circa 1971 that was very noisy.

[DawnK]

unacceptable.

Occasionally, I hear ice dropping and the icemaker filling with water, if other things in my house aren't noisy and I happen to be paying attention.

Dawn