Tuesday, 5 February 2008

Freezer problems

In October I won a competition. Amazing cos I never win anything. I won a designer fridge freezer. Worth £900. Lovely black glass doors and AAA rated. Trouble was we already had a fridge freezer. It wasnt as pretty but was very economical ( also AA) and reliable. Anyway we ended up keeping both which was brilliant at Xmas when you have loads of food. We didnt really need it tho and have spent the last few weeks trying to decide what to do with our old one ( put it in the shed or sell it?). Woke at about 6am Saturday to this weird sound. We walked all over the house trying to locate where it was coming from. Eventually we realised the bottom ( freezer) door had just crumbled and we had bits of hardened glass all over the place. This freezer has a 5 year guarentee but I just dont think I can be bothered. At least we didnt pay for it. I would certainly never but one now. Altho I have looked at similar ones with yearning several times! My old Zanussi is much better and cheaper to buy and its bigger! Also its less noisy! The fan made loads of noise in the new one. Well still does but I have now turned it off which flooded the kitchen but it has to go now so may as well defrost! I will probably get into trouble for posting the name of the manufacturer so will just give a clue and if anyone reads this and wants to know please email me. Its a very posh looking freezer and the manufacturer starts with "G" and sounds a bit like "orange". Also they used to manufacture "Smeg". So it was a very nice looking piece and certainly "poshed-up" my kitchen but personally wouldnt waste the money on this at a future date now I have had one and would advise everyone else to think twice. I know we could get it fixed but it means taking a day off work for somone to look at it and probably another for them to fix it and in the end it just isnt worth the hassle. And we now have space for tow more cupboards which is brilliant. From now on I shall stick to less glamarous but trusted makes of kitchen appliance. Not that we paid for it but I probably would have if we had had the spare cash. Main annoyance is I will have to pay the council to take it away since it wont fit in either of our cars. So my freebie has made a mess and will cost in disposal!

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