The refrigerator is in and I finally peeled off the protective skin of plastic. I must say, this unit is lovely. I love the blue readout control panel, mostly because it's a nice change from green. :) Interior: The interior refrigerator has one split shelf and two slide out shelves. the bins for the door include a bin for cans of soda, a dairy shelf, and two more shelves--that's all on the side that does not have the ice cube dispenser. On that side there is one shelf, full length and depth, a very tiny shelf that is almost impossible to fit anything into and an upper shelf that is oddly shaped and definitely not full width and depth to accommodate the ice maker. The full width and depth of the door shelves easily handle two gallons of milk each. That's four gallons of milk! But I'm guessing that would be a lot of weight on one door. The other full depth & width door shelve is on the side that has the ice maker. It can only fit one gallon because the icemake curves into the space needed for another gallon. I took out the soda can holder since we don't drink sodas much and it looked like it only fit about 5 or 6 cans, unless you could stack more on top. I could quickly see myself as being the official soda stocker! The actual shelves for food and fresh produce are sturdy. The top two shelves are split and can be moved to different levels. The lowest shelf, the one above the produce, is stationery. One of the shelves splits horizontally to help when extra height is needed. I did this to put an elongated gallon container of lemonade, but the container hung off the edge since the space was rather shallow, so I have decided it is a nice feature, but not very practical. I am, however, still trying to figure out the best use of space. Fresh produce bins are roomy and have a humidity control slide bar (typical in most refrigerators). The full width deli/pantry plus drawer is nice and you can choose three settings according to what you want to place inside--fresh, deli or chill. Lighting is LED, nice and bright. The water filter is located at the top right and very easy to access. The ice maker works quite well and other than the cubes dropping, is very quiet. Water through the door is chilled to perfection (who needs ice?). The saddle to activate the water and ice is easy to push, perhaps too easy for little hands but my "baby" is fourteen, so no worries for me. If you have children it's something to consider. The controls are taking a little getting used to, but there is a power cool and a power freeze, for those times when you need either the refrigerator or freezer to cool/freeze at a faster rate. There is also a light for the water/ice maker, a door alarm that can be turned on/off, and icemaker on/off button and an Energy Saver button. The freezer has a very thin tilt out drawer that is a nice place to put bags of Steam Fresh veggies (love those things!) and/or frozen entrees. Pretty much any box that is smallish in size. The pull out drawer is roomy and unobstructed by an ice maker (this is the 237 model, not the 238 that has dual ice makers). The lower freezer section could hold two turkeys and maybe a ham, but I can't say with confidence since I still haven't filled mine up yet--can't decide what to put in it. The SS is shiny and beautiful. . .now. I can see that it will be work to keep it clean. The handles are rounded tubes that are concave in relation to the doors. There is a SAMSUNG label in the upper right hand corner. The freezer drawer handle pulls up to unlock the freezer drawer, which glides open. The one thing that shocked me about this refrigerator was that it is not level front to back. When you set it up next to an end panel, you will notice that the freezer drawer area is set out more than the refrigerator section--like the entire unit is leaning backward a bit. This might be a huge negative for those wanting a refrigerator with a flush-to-cabinets front. We also ran into some frustration with setting up the icemaker, in that not all parts are supplied. If you are considering this refrigerator, the water line is near the top, which means your water supply should be located higher in the wall. Because our refrigerator replaced an F&P whose water line was near the bottom, thus our water supply box was set low, the water supply hose on the Samsung was short by about 18", so we had to do a little shopping before we were able to set up the water line. Overall, I am very happy with my purchase and pleased with the product. I hope that this review might help someone considering the unit. If you have questions, holler!

sdionnemoore -- I am interested in your comment about the fridge not being level front to back. My husband and his friend just brought our new RFD237AARS in from the garage and slid it into place. We noticed the same thing, that the front is too high and that makes the freezer area stick out from the wall more than at the top. When we put the level on it, it's seriously out of whack and there doesn't appear to be a way to lower the front. We called Samsung Canada and the support person was basically useless. Did you call Samsung in the US (I assume you are in the US -- I wonder if they had anything more helpful to say than the Canadian support person.) I read another comment on a different site that the owner put his up on shims at the back, which we might try ourselves. The whole setup seems a bit flaky to me. I've never had to level a fridge before so I don't know if they are all like this.

Sorry Makeitsew there is no quick wash or prewash. As you toggle thru the various categories you will be able to see what spin, water, soil level each cycle will allow. You could do the spin and rinse, with extra rinse (36 min.) for a quick wash of a couple items. Prewash could be accomplished by using a rinse and low speed spin. I never use the prewash on my old unit, so it wasn't a factor in my purchasing decision. Would be nice to have a quick wash. However, most quick wash features are for a few clothes and I would be interested in knowing the actual minutes listed for that cycle. Below are listings for time. Some cycles will only allow certain spin speeds and water selections. If you use too much soap that would make the times longer. I know people complain of balance. But this isn't my first FL and I've always washed one item and never had any problems. Both in the old FL and the new. Maybe I've just been lucky. Delicate cycle with light soil, low spin, is 38 minutes. Perm. press light soil, med. spin, is 44 minutes. Normal with light soil, any spin speed, any water is 46 minutes. If the total run of your dryer vent(from behind the dryer extending thru the walls to the outside) is only three feet, then the dryer times will be fast. Mine basically exits right outside the wall, so I just have to watch for lint build-up on the animal guard on the outside. You will want to use the options on your dryer. Look in the manual, it shows how much cool time within each cycle. Use the perm. press cycle when appropriate. I also use the wrinkle guard button on the perm. press. Otherwise you'll end up with wrinkled clothes. You can go to Samsungs website and download the manual if you want to look at the display board. The manual that comes with the unit isn't too descriptive. However, the controls are pretty self explanatory. You can just flip the dial to turn on the unit. You don't have to power up the unit before selecting.

Well I've only had my 218 for about four months. The machine seems to wash really well. Even when the Maytag was new, it just doesn't compare to the how quiet and how much better the Samsung washes the whites. Even hubby commented on how quiet this new machine is even when spinning. The Maytag, even when new, kind of sounded like a jet getting ready for take off. The pump on the Samsung seems louder. But I think that's because I have the pedestals and the noise kinds of echos off the box. My old front loader set on the floor. My old dryer you could basically set it and use the same setting for all clothes. This new dryer will toast/wrinkle your permanent press if you don't put it on the correct setting. I bought the Maytag thinking it would last for 20 years. It barely made it to past nine. And apparently I got one of the few that wasn't problematic. So I was very hesitant to put big money in another FL. I also wanted pedestals and went back and forth between buying or just building a platform. Since I planned on raising the units, I would need a matching dryer so I could reach the controls. If you do mix units, be aware that they're not all the same height. I spent more on my old Maytag FL than I did for both my new Samsung washer and dryer. Only time will tell how reliable the machines are. But I will tell you I'm impressed with how well they work. I also love the pedestals. If you don't want to spend the money put them on a platform. I guess the only thing I miss is the light in the washer. However, with them up you can really see in the drum, and there is not an issue with leaving the door open when there is no light.