Lifetime of a fridge freezer?

Is there a particular reason to buy Miele over the original Liebherr? eg that Liebherr don't sell in the UK? Or are you paying extra just for the badge?

Theo

Liebher do (or did) sell in the UK. At one time they were on display side by side in John Lewis which made it very obvious that the only differences were minor cosmetic ones.

There's not actually that much in it, like for like.

Leibherr do still sell in the UK. Definitely the "best" IMHO. As others have said - always avoid frost-free freezers; they are much more trouble.

I have a chest freezer which is over 30 years old and working perfectly and an upright fridge which is 28 years old - still going strong except had to get the sealing round the door replaced

All well and good, but a new one would probably pay for itself in electricity savings in just over a year.

Really cheap appliances? Or really expensive electricity?

I once put a 32 year old compressor into our old larder fridge, it was still working when I skipped it 5 years later.

Gloworm central heating boiler that was here when we moved here in

Just really inefficient old appliance

Currys A+ fridge freezer from £129 claims 183kWh/year about £25/year

I don't doubt the general idea, but the website you quote also gives the running costs (2010) for an A++ fridge-freezer as £27/year. Yet an A+ freezer costs only £25/year at 2015 prices...

We have a Trianco-Stewart oil boiler of the same vintage, also still going strong.

To cost £160 the old fridge would need to consume about 160 watts 24/7/36

NT

Perhaps they took the worst possible case - found a fridge-freezer where the insulation had broken down & the door seals were hanging off - and implied that was a typical result.

I have a pair of legs that were used for climbing ladders to install TV aerials from 1971 to last year. They are still in working order but the joints need lubrication, and apparently they are sealed units.

On the other hand I have an organ that was only erected on a regular basis from 1967 to about 1990, after which usage diminished slowly to nothing. It is now completely worn out.

Bill

They must be using a very broken 160w machine that runs constantly. The pro blem with that is its knackered, not that its old.

NT

Frost free or normal? Brian

That's what happens to organs when you pull out all the stops too often, especially if the blower's past it.

Owain

To cost ?160 the old fridge would need to consume about 160 watts 24/7/365, or about 600w 25% of the time. IOW their figures are garbage.

These old fridge/freezers had glass wool insulation. It used to fill up with water & become useless. (Interstitial condensation) So I can just about believe it.