Samsung's refrigeratorrs are junk
Refrigerator Suggestions
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It is very easy to fix this problem permanently. Water freezes in the drain pipe, a common problem. You need to remove everything from the freezer and let it thaw out, take about a foot of bare 14 ga solid copper wire, put one end down the drain tube, and wrap the other end once around the heating element. It will never freeze again.
Whatever you do, STAY CLEAR from any Samsung French Door fridges! I constantly have to defrost the ice maker, which has been fixed several times by home warranty. There’s a class action lawsuit going on as well with Samsung… When buying a new fridge, just remember the more fancy features it has the more sh!ts going to break. Just buy a fridge with the features you feel necessary to have.
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Avoid Samsung and LG, I've said it a million times.
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Avoid Samsung and LG, I've said it a million times.
Stay away from Samsung too.
I'm not going to say that I'm a cult follower, but I own a Crosley refrigerator. Before everyone jumps all over me by saying "they don't make them, they are just rebranded", yes, I know that. So is a GMC pickup.
I bought my Crosley because my mailing address town (population ~600), has a mom-and-pop store that sells them and I wanted to give them a little business. They also have a 10 year standard warranty on the compressor without paying for an extra protection plan. I went in and asked for them to take $100 off and they agreed.
My refrigerator is a side-by-side with a water and ice dispenser on the door, but is mostly no frills. It's probably not the most energy efficient model on the market, but it seemed like all the other places selling refrigerators at the time didn't have anything that I wanted for a good price. I think I've had mine about 8 years now and the repair man hasn't been to my house yet. Knock on wood....
Unless it's something like ice cream or sea food, why not cook it?
By the time you find them they are probably already rotten?
Most all the media says during a power outage the food in the fridge will stay frozen for 48 hours if the door isn't open.
Whirlpool/Maytag, GE/Haier or Fridgidaire are my recommendations.
Most of it I gave to my DIL but her kids a finiky eaters so it will likely get tossed. I cooked and ate the rest tonight and really had too much.
Follow up; I called LG and because the unit is < five years old they are going to warranty the repairs and arranged for a tech come look at it on tuesday. From reading website about the LG linear compressors they are as complicated as BMW German engineering. Efficient and run fantastic until they don't. They they are very expensive to repair. Maybe Toyota should get into the refrigerator appliance business. Mitsubishi makes cars and very good HVAC units.
Yes, but you are dealing with a fridge that has gone bad and it may just stay at near freezing temp on and off and slowly thawing without you noticing, and then went bad by the time you find out.
Denso's scroll compressor AC for Prius is excellent, and inverter driven. LG can buy it but they probably don't want to or can't afford to for the price they want to sell for. I really wish people will pay for a good compressor instead of fancy features in fridge. We don't deserve the junks today.
I'm told Whirlpool, GE and Frigidaire are good. Our old Kenmore fridge and chest freezer lasted over 25 years!
NEVER LG again! Have 3 old LG monitors that are working. I think they should stick with building or selling monitors. lol
LG is junk. Both our $900 TV and the $2700 (on sale from $3500) fridge died. TV died right after 3 years warranty and fridge after 4.5 yrs. There was a class action lawsuit going on and they attempted to fix the fridge twice to no avail. every time it took over 2 months for the repair ... We finally gave up and recycled the piece of junk.
NEVER LG again! Have 3 old LG monitors that are working. I think they should stick with building or selling monitors. lol
LG is junk. Both our $900 TV and the $2700 (on sale from $3500) fridge died. TV died right after 3 years warranty and fridge after 4.5 yrs. There was a class action lawsuit going on and they attempted to fix the fridge twice to no avail. every time it took over 2 months for the repair ... We finally gave up and recycled the piece of junk.
Recently went through this last month. The Amana bottom freezer unit from 2014 stopped defrosting leaving the fridge portion to get warm. Luckily the freezer still worked and I transferred everything to the beer fridge downstairs (a cheap Whirlpool unit that I got for free that even went floating during a river flood on the Potomac in West Virginia). I could have tried to fix the defrost stuff, but I hated that fridge and its bottom freezer. Not to mention when I went to manually defrost the coils I found nicotine buildup everywhere, so that was nasty (previous owner did that, not me). The ice maker also was an add on unit that didn't have a filter, so the ice tasted terrible being softened well water. The only thing in my size that was a side-by-side was an Amana for $1200, or a Whirlpool for $1700. Spent the extra $500 for the Whirlpool. Still had to cut apart the cabinet to make it work. Will it last? Probably not, but is better than the old one and having filtered ice and water has got us spoiled.
Cool. I don't know anyone with one. A small appliance store in my town sells them but had read mixed reviews with everything is great long lasting to "it died after three years and I can't get parts".
The simplier the unit the more than likely it will last. Electronics, ice makers in the refrigerator portion of the appliance, etc make for more repairs or failures if parts aren't available. We have a 7 year old Frigidaire that has done well. Frigidaire however has crappy plastic in their drawers in the fridge. I broke the produce crisper drawer the first week we owned it. Luckily Lowes replaced it for us. We are just super careful with the drawers. I've read the experts now recommend GE refrigerators. No LG, No Samsung, and I've heard that Whirlpool is having some difficulties right now as well. It's really a crap shoot.
Don't buy Samsung.
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