Question for those of you who have French Door fridges
MiMi
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French Door Fridge with ice in door question
Comments (9)We have the water/ice on the outside of our FD fridge. I have four kids who drink mostly water, so having water on the inside would have resulted in my fridge constantly being opened. I could do without having the ice dispenser but finding a fridge that had just water on the door but with other features we wanted was too hard to find. I was worried about the ice dispenser taking up a lot of room, but we went with a very big fridge (29 cu ft) due to our family size. The ice/water dispenser does not take up much room on the inside of the fridge - in fact, we have plenty of space inside our fridge. I was more worried about losing space on the inside of the door for condiments, but with the model we bought, we still have plenty of room on both doors for what we need. I looked at quite a few manufacturers, narrowed down to the LG and Samsung, but didn't like the drawers on the LG at all. We have had the Samsung now for three months and so far, so good. I love it. I was recently at an appliance store looking at ranges/DW and somehow got to talking to the rep about refrigerators. I happened to look at a GE Profile on the floor and it was EXACTLY like my Samsung, except the design of the door dispenser was different. THe interior was exactly the same. Turns out Samsung makes the GE Profile fridges, though the Profile is more expensive than my Samsung was. If you haven't already looked at the Samsung or GE Profile, check them out. Though the ice machine looks like it takes up a lot of room, it really doesn't and there is still plenty of room on the door for condiments - at the top the shelf is very small, but I put my smallest items there. Truthfully, I feel like I have more storage on the doors now than I did with my old side by side....See MoreQuestion for those of you with french door fridges
Comments (3)I have a GE Adora. I bought it about 6 months ago. I don't have any problem with the ice melting under normal conditions. What happens is that sometimes on the cubed ice setting, the ice jams up against the little styrofoam door that opens to let the ice out. When that happens then the ice starts melting bacause the door is open. I have gotten used to this and I can tell by the sound if there is a problem. I also found that pulsing the ice lever prevents this. The rest of my family can't seem to figure it out so I tell them to look up to see if the door closed. On the shaved ice setting, clumping is an issue. After I get the shaved ice, I chase it with cubed ice so the chute doesn't get clogged with frozen ice chips. Obviously this is a real dissapointment and no one should have to deal with this. I tried to call GE twice but never got through to a person. The system is automated and just wants to schedule a repairman for you. Since I don't have time to wait around for a repairman I just deal with it. On the plus side, I like the fact that it has a small icemaker on the door instead of on a shelf inside the refrigerator. Since the ice bin is small and sealed, we never get stinky ice like we did in our old refrigerator from not using enough ice. So far we have never run out of ice on the door and we have a family of 4. The Adora does have a second ice maker in the freezer but so far we have only tuned it on to test it. We will probably use the freezer ice as we get more into the summer. Temperature control is fantastic. It has something called Turbo Cool. I can't figure out what that is supposed to do. My best guess is that it just turns on the compressor but why you would turn it on manually when the thermostat will turn it on is beyond me....See Morequestion re: pulls on integrated french door fridge door panels
Comments (0)We are in the last minute stages of choosing pulls for our kitchen (in our newly completed house, yay!). We are planning to have a fully integrated french door fridge with the freezer drawers on bottom and cabinet panels on everything. I came over here to look around at the fridge we have already decided to buy (Themador Freedom) but I got sidetracked when a thread mentioned the appliance pulls on a french door fridge. The rest of the cabinetry in the kitchen is raised panels and I am realizing that the styles (isn't that what the border part around the edge is called?) are a tad narrow. Our dishwasher panel came and we were definitely surprised by the look - the scale up is not what we imagined and the pull we chose was too big so we are starting all the way over. The fridge panel hasn't been made yet (I don't think) and now after reading comments about integrated fridges here I am super nervous that we will have trouble with the appliance pulls being too close My question is - how can we plan for this? When the panel is made for the fridge door do all the dimensions get larger or should I expect the style to be the same width as it is on other cabinets? Maybe we can call the manufacturer and ask about teh dimensions of the panel? I can't believe we didn't think about this until the last minute!!! Of course, we haven't chosen pulls yet so maybe if there is limited space we could compensate some by not getting overly wide pulls. Here is a picture of part of our kitchen so you can see the cabinetry - obviously fridge will go there on the right. Excuse the dust the house is still under construction here I would love to hear experiences from other integrated french door fridges and even pictures of your pulls if you have them handy. Thanks!...See MoreQuestion for those who have Ikea glass doors
Comments (8)Not sure what Lidingo translates into under the new Sektion line, but do they have 6 separate panels that each need to be cleaned? - or is ot one panel of glass. I think the one panel would be OK but not so sure about the 6 panels. Its always the edges that tend to look bad....See Moreginagordon_gw
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