Which is better refrigerator with top or botton freezer?

Frisky Feline said:
stainles steel looks very nice. but i am more comfortable with black. the stainless steel i often accidently hit on the wall of the stainless steel and its bump it looks funny. I dont know about black but i dont remember noticing the black ones. ha
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Bump? I assume you mean a dent?
 
whatdidyousay! said:
That is good to know about stainless steel they cost more too and I bet a salesperson will try to get me to buy a stainless steel fridge . My city does not pick fridges , you have to bring them to the dump yourself.
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Sears will take your old refrig out for $10 if you buy a new one from them. Maybe your local appliance store will do the same for a charge.

Choose additional services:

I would like my old item hauled away ---------------$10.00

*Delivery Teams cannot prepare old merchandise for Haul Away. Item must be ready for disposal at time of new product arrival.
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Jane B. said:
Anybody know why this configuration seems to have disappeared?
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Do you mean 4-door like this one?

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CrazyPaul said:
Do you mean 4-door like this one?

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No. Just two doors with one side frig. and one side freezer. But . . . the two sides were not straight up and down. On one half the refrigerator side was wide and on the other half the freezer side was.

You know how often the freezer side is narrower. Well on these it was probably the refrigerator section that was wider at the top and then at the bottom the freezer section was wider. With the idea of it being easy to put large things in either but have some things in both sections at eye level.
 
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I have Kenmore Elite 32 CuFt Fridge and it's French door type (with bottom freezer) and I don't have any problem with it. The only reason I like to have bottom freezer because we used to have side by side type and all frozen packages keep falling out whenever I tried to pull out one package. And one nice thing that in freezer drawer have 3 dividers in bottom drawer and pull out tray at the top. So, it divided all the food, like veggies on divider, meats on other and quick meal type frozen dinner and then top drawer for like ice cream and such.... I had it for 4 years and no problem but yes it's very expensive and super energy efficient.
 
Jane B. said:
No. Just two doors with one side frig. and one side freezer. But . . . the two sides were not straight up and down. On one half the refrigerator side was wide and on the other half the freezer side was.

You know how often the freezer side is narrower. Well on these it was probably the refrigerator section that was wider at the top and then at the bottom the freezer section was wider. With the idea of it being easy to put large things in either but have some things in both sections at eye level.
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Do you remember the brand name?
 
I do well with the top freezer but wish it was larger in relation to my refrigerator section. I use just frozen veggies (no canned) so am into freezer section almost daily.
 
Jane B. said:
No. Just two doors with one side frig. and one side freezer. But . . . the two sides were not straight up and down. On one half the refrigerator side was wide and on the other half the freezer side was.

You know how often the freezer side is narrower. Well on these it was probably the refrigerator section that was wider at the top and then at the bottom the freezer section was wider. With the idea of it being easy to put large things in either but have some things in both sections at eye level.
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So the freezer's side door is shaped "L" and the frig's side door is shaped upside down "L". I don't think I have ever seen one before.
 
CrazyPaul said:
Sears will take your old refrig out for $10 if you buy a new one from them. Maybe your local appliance store will do the same for a charge.
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My local appliance store cost $50 to remove my old fridge there is no delivery fee because I am on the first floor plus I will have to pay taxes which is 6.25 % I do not feel like driving to Sears there is none right next to my home. Thank you for the info.
 
Reba said:
I think the French door configuration provides those options. If you look at the additional views for this one, you can see the inside set up. The shelf with the three sandwiches and the strawberry layer cake can be used instead for one large item, like a sheet cake.

Shop LG 30.5-cu ft Door-in-Door French Door Refrigerator with Single Ice Maker (Stainless Steel) ENERGY STAR at Lowes.com

I like the door-within-a-door feature. (Too bad this fridge is way beyond my needs.)
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For $3,148.20 plus taxes I want to able to drive it too!
 
Here is a possible con against bottom-freezers:

I had a Daewoo somethingorother (forget the model) fridge with the freezer on the bottom. Please note that I am not an engineer but this is my understanding of how it works and so why it went wrong.

Self defrosting fridges like mine have a drain, so any condensation or moisture goes down this special drain and drips into a tray above the motor, where the heat from the motor helps it evaporate.

Because the freezer was on the bottom, the drain ran down the back of the fridge (upper) and then into the freezer (bottom) on its way to the tray. Slowly, over the course of the six years I owned it, a little bit of the condensation in there froze before making it out. A little here, a little there, slowly adding up until every day there was a puddle of water under the fridge. Mop it up, a few hours later it was back. I took the freezer drawers out and saw ice, I removed the back cover and saw more ice. The drain tube had blocked up with ice, so then any water landing on top stayed there and froze producing more ice and eventually filled the cavity there until the water had nowhere to go but out and onto the floor.

I spent the afternoon chipping away and pulling out blocks of ice with the aid of a hairdryer before I got far enough in that I could tip a measuring jug full of boiling water into the drain, melting down through the plug of ice and clearing it. That fixed the leak, and I pulled several margaritas' worth of ice out in the process.

So there you go.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
My local appliance store cost $50 to remove my old fridge there is no delivery fee because I am on the first floor plus I will have to pay taxes which is 6.25 % I do not feel like driving to Sears there is none right next to my home. Thank you for the info.
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Don't know where you are but the following program from Ameren that is available in my area will PAY YOU $50 and haul away your old frig or freezer.
Refrigerator and Freezer Recycling
 
Jane B. said:
Don't know where you are but the following program from Ameren that is available in my area will PAY YOU $50 and haul away your old frig or freezer.
Refrigerator and Freezer Recycling
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My electric company will pay you $50 , but the frig has to your second one. I only have one frig. I did call my electric company today but I was not able to hear the woman very good. My daughter is going to call for me , my daughter just called me back and the frig can't come from the kitchen , it has be one in the basement or another part of the house. CRAP! It too bad I couldn't put my old in the basement and say it my second frig!
 
metalangel said:
Here is a possible con against bottom-freezers:

I had a Daewoo somethingorother (forget the model) fridge with the freezer on the bottom. Please note that I am not an engineer but this is my understanding of how it works and so why it went wrong.

Self defrosting fridges like mine have a drain, so any condensation or moisture goes down this special drain and drips into a tray above the motor, where the heat from the motor helps it evaporate.

Because the freezer was on the bottom, the drain ran down the back of the fridge (upper) and then into the freezer (bottom) on its way to the tray. Slowly, over the course of the six years I owned it, a little bit of the condensation in there froze before making it out. A little here, a little there, slowly adding up until every day there was a puddle of water under the fridge. Mop it up, a few hours later it was back. I took the freezer drawers out and saw ice, I removed the back cover and saw more ice. The drain tube had blocked up with ice, so then any water landing on top stayed there and froze producing more ice and eventually filled the cavity there until the water had nowhere to go but out and onto the floor.

I spent the afternoon chipping away and pulling out blocks of ice with the aid of a hairdryer before I got far enough in that I could tip a measuring jug full of boiling water into the drain, melting down through the plug of ice and clearing it. That fixed the leak, and I pulled several margaritas' worth of ice out in the process.

So there you go.
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You should unplug the frig before chipping ice off it.
 
whatdidyousay! said:
My electric company will pay you $50 , but the frig has to your second one. I only have one frig. I did call my electric company today but I was not able to hear the woman very good. My daughter is going to call for me.
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That is the impression that we got when the program first started around here but they later clarified that it works when you are doing replacement as well. Be sure to check on that part.
 
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