I bought a big (the biggest) Samsung top-french-door, bottom drawer
fridge about 1.5 yr ago, I think it is like 33cuft. The bottom ice
maker quit working about 9 months ago, guy came and determined the fill
tube had cracked and frozen up, replaced that and it started making ice
again. This was just some little plastic tube about a foot long. But
it goes on strike every few days and I have to hit the reset button on
the ice maker to get it to cycle and start making ice again. The
adverts say it can make up to 10lb ice a day, that is more like 10lb/wk
if it keeps working. The top maker that feeds the door seems to work
OK, I think I only had to recycle it once when it ran out of ice in the
drawer. The bottom ice maker is now starting to get wonky again, I
might call them soon and have them come and replace it.
The top ice maker holds maybe 5lb of ice, the bottom is just a big tray
under the maker that the ice dumps in then slides out when you pull out
the drawer.
The fridge part is kinda nice except to get the bottom meat drawer open
(it is as wide as the interior) you have to open both doors. There are
2 1/2 drawers for vegs, you can open them either side with just that
door open.
The guy who came said they have a lot of problems with the Samsungs and
LGs and whatnot, none of them are very high quality these days and
probably won't last that long as they use small motors and compressors
to get the energy ratings but since they are running flat out they wear
out fast. Plus that fill tube issue was a common one, go figure a $3
part fails like that so easy.
I bought the extended warranty, 3 years I think, so I am covered another
1.5yr.
My SIL has a Bosch fridge though it is not that big and is a
side-by-side, but it is a nice unit.
I was going to put a dedicated ice maker in my new kitchen but my wife
had a fit about it for some reason I could not understand. Last weekend
we had a bunch of people here, and of course ran out of ice in about 2
hours. Sent the kids to get a coupla bags, my wife remarked we needed a
bigger ice maker... duh ya think? I think that is the way to go, put
one in your shed and have as much as you want.
--R
On 7/9/16 5:15 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes wrote:
Our current refrigerator is a Whirlpool side by side stainless. With
these side by sides there never seems to be enough room. Also, the
ice maker in it will hold enough ice to fill up my big thermos water
jug that I use when working outside on car lots. If I end up having to
work outside more than 1 day in a row the ice maker will not fill back
up by the next morning between using all of the ice in the morning and
whatever is used in the house during the day. Usually by the time I
get home in the afternoon it has filled about half way back up, then
we use ice in the evening using most of what was made, then in the
morning it is filled about half way back up again. After a couple of
days I really do not have enough ice to fill up my jug. So this leads
me to start looking at these new french door refrigerators with the
slide out freezer in the bottom. I am most interested in one that has
dual ice makers, they have one in the door and one in the bottom
freezer. We do not use bulk ice that often but when we need it, it
would be great to have it. In my little bit of research I am tending
to lean toward Samsung or LG. The Whirlpool/Maytag/GE seems like they
are way more expensive than what you can get from LG/Samsung. Anybody
have any refrigerator experience they would like to share? Online
reviews seem to be no help really. Any website I find seems to be an
advertisement for 1 brand or the other. Also, Lowes seems to be
having a massive sale that lasts a few more days.
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