The thing about fridges...

[samaranth]

The thing about fridges is that, of all electrical appliances you have in your home, they’re the most urgent to replace once they break down. Washing machines - there’s the laundromat; irons - looking crumpled might be taken as a fashion statement; electric kettles - you can boil water on the stove until you have a chance to duck out to the shops.

Comments

[shirebound]

Oh dear, that *is* a dilemma! :O

[samaranth]

Dilemma with a capital D, shirebound! I'm also Dithering, Desparate, and ... Definitely a bit poorer. But at least I'll have a fridge that works. :(

[rosiethehobbit]

Oh no. I had a fridge that did that once. It died and I lost a good bit of food. Then it came back on by itself and worked fine until I moved out two years later. But I spent those two years just waiting for it to die any day. A few times it started making an awful noise, but it went away and kept cooling. I wish I knew what to tell you.

[samaranth]

This is actually quite comforting! But I'm going to go ahead with the new one...there's a whopping cancellation fee, plus as sure as little duck eggs the minute I hung up the phone the stupid fridge would break down again.

I don't know how you managed two whole years living on the edge like that - just this last couple of days has been nerve-wracking enough.

[volkhvoi]

Did you possibly have a brownout or a voltage spike? I am suspicious when your salesman suggests a surge protector (which would deal with this sort of problem).

[samaranth]

Hmmm, we might have, but if so then it was unnoticed by us. I've heard about them, can't recall experiencing one.

We've never had a surge protector for the fridge, though we do for the big electronics (TV/DVD etc etc). The friendly (over-friendly) salesman contradicted himself - his spiel was that applicances thiese days don't have some thing or other which they used to have (and which made them last so long), so the surge protector was needed to do the same thing. Or something. To be honest, by that stage I wasn't paying much attention, except to mentally agree that nothing is build to last these days! They all clap out after a year or so.

[volkhvoi]

I agree that nothing lasts these days. I wonder, if the Great Recession, or energy costs, or global warming consequences, or something, will end the disposable consumables culture.

The salesman sounds like 100% hand-brushed-by-artisanal-junior-salespeople cotton flannel.