Freezer - GE or Whirlpool
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Please Tell Me About Your Whirlpool and GE Appliances
Comments (9)My thought is that percentages can sometimes be deceiving. Say you have two refrigerators made essentially by the same company under different brand names. One is a little plainer than the other but the one with additional features costs more money. Overall sales will favor the lower priced unit. Ok, say you have a similar part failure whether it be a door that simply disintegrated around the hinges (Kenmore Elite a few years back and was replaced with a brand new higher grade frige for no charge) or an electrical or cooling part. If you have one failure for every 100 units sold your failure rate is 1%. If you have one failure for every 25 produced your repair rate is what, 4% (no math genius here but you get the point). I've noticed that high end appliances always have a higher repair rate. They also seem to have a lot more features. The more features you have on them or the more an appliance can do, the more that will probably go wrong with them. Coupled with the higher costs and lower production runs, the repair rate should also be higher. This is particularly true with ovens and electronics. Heat and electronics are not a good match. There will be many more failures with a sophisticated electronically powered oven/appliance than one with has simple rheostat controlled dials for the heating elements. Sometimes I think that is still the way to go. We got along without the fancy stuff for a very long time. Just my observations. On the brands, I had Kenmore products and liked them. Quiet and reliable. When we had a new house built, we went pretty high end appliances (Dacor, Bosch, DCS). Refrig is a GE Profile Arctica because of the sizing and the Precise Fill feature. My convection microwave is by Sharp. They manufacture that same unit for Dacor and others and you won't pay the higher premium price for somebody else's name on it. Have some trouble with oven but that is being handled with the service folks....See Moresamsung versus whirlpool versus GE
Comments (2)I see that you just joined today. We all get hit with information overload and find appliance choices overwhelming, confusing and, yes, eventually annoying. There can be a lot of help here, but let me suggest some tips on getting better information here. It helps if you post the specific model numbers in which you are interested. For example, you do know that Whirlpool markets its fridges under its own name, Whirlpool Gold, Kitchenaid, JennAir, Maytag and Amana? You know that all of them are made on the same production line in Amana, Iowa? Also, did you realize that GE, Samsung and Whirlpool have several dozen models of FD fridges between them, all in different sizes and configurations? Samsung, for example, has one model with a 32 cut. ft. capacity, if you need to something that big but which you won't care about if you don't want to spend $3k on a fridge. Also, when there have been recent threads discussing your candidate models, it helps if you mention them and the questions or concerns that weren't answered for you. Have you seen this thread, for example, which has a lot of information and long term usage reports about 22 cu. ft. FD and other bottom freezer models from the Whirlpool corporate family with some commentary about Samsung (all of which are models currently being sold, btw)? http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/appl/msg0814261226855.html If you've tried the gardenweb search engine and are having trouble finding what you need, try going out to Google/Bing/Ask etc. and include "gardenweb" in the search string -- viz. gardenweb + samsung + refrigerator + french door. This post was edited by JWVideo on Sun, May 11, 14 at 14:25...See Moreneed large side-by-side fridge: ge vs. whirlpool vs. samsung?
Comments (2)I don't see anybody jumping in, so maybe I can help get a conversation started for you. GE had pretty significant reliability and parts problems with its fridges when it started contracting out (outsourcing), but it has brought much of its production back to the US a few years ago. CR's survey data shows that GE is now no less (and no more) reliable than most other brands of SxS models. In our area, GE also cut back on the number of dealers it works with and seems to be concentrating on the highest-volume retailers and big-box stores. Some friends bought one of the large new GE SxS models a month or so ago -- I think it is the one rated for 29 cut. ft. -- and say they are very pleased with its features and capacity. Something to else to bear in mind is that rated capacity is often overstated. Supposedly 25 to 28 cu. ft. SxS fridges sometimes turn out to have no more than 18 cu. ft. of actual capacity. Capacity is affected by the size of the through-the-door ice and water dispensers and some of the larger capacity models have two ice makers. If memory serves, CR rated the Whirlpool and Samsung SxS models as having more usable capacity than other brands with similar capacity claims. Samsung models have separate evaporators for the freezer and fridge compartments. Not the same as having completely separate compressors and cooling systems (ala Sub Zero) but still something of a marketing leg up because of the theoretical advantages. When I was fridge shopping, it seemed that the jury was still out on whether the separate evaporators made much practical difference. Doesn't the biggest Samsung SxS have an external display screen that connects to the internet or you smart phone or displays photos or something? Strikes me one more thing to fail. cascade to other circuitry and interfere with the primary functions. FWIW, some friend have had a Samsung 26 cu. ft. SxS (no screens) for three years with no problems. They make heavy use of the external dispensers. This post was edited by JWVideo on Sun, Jul 6, 14 at 15:48...See MoreUpright Frost-Free Freezers--Whirlpool or Frigidaire?
Comments (8)I replaced my 40 yr old 22' Kelvinator upright with an 18' Whirlpool when we moved. The Kelvinator was working flawlessly still, but moving it would have meant taking off the door and two doors to the house to get it back out of the basement where it had lived its long life and I left it - spotlessly clean and fully functioning - for the new owners. No real complaints about the Whirlpool, but in choosing a smaller more energy efficient model I've cut myself a little short on freezing space, it's really full and I've had to change my storage habits a little. I can wrap foods as well as anyone, did you know if not meticulously wrapped in a frost free freezer your foods will lose quality more quickly? My understanding is that frost free uses approx. 35% more electricity to operate too.... I bought manual defrost for longer term storage. With an assortment of coolers in the hallway to my mudroom for the frozen foods, a small space heater in front of the open door, I can have the freezer defrosted, wiped dry, refilled and running in about 40 minutes. I've defrosted it twice in the 16 months I've had it, not a huge chore to me. In a cooler basement and not as conveniently located (door was not being opened, closed as often), defrosting was only required once a year with old faithful Kelvinator ;)...See Moremaries1120
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