Pleeeeeeeeease fit...
Jan. 19th, 2003 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilight33We are beseeching the Appliance Gods to grant mercy upon us on Tuesday.
Our upstairs fridge is about ready to die since it's now on the highest power setting in order to stay cold, and even then it's not as cold as our downstairs one. My husband measured the fridge and the clearance we have around it (it's boxed in by cupboards the previous owner did in the kitchen remodel), and we happily set off to Sears thinking there'd be no problem in selecting a new one.
That is, until it became very obvious that fridges have grown in the past 20 years or so (I'm guesstimating the age based on the instruction manual with early-to-mid-80s hairstyles but no actual dates printed in it). The printed dimensions on the smallest fridges there were .75" more than the clearance space allowed! We started to panic, and measured a few ourselves to find out that the measurements were taken on the doors which are slightly higher than the actual unit, but they were still .50" too high.
Enter the sales guy, who helps us out by telling us which fridges can be completely mashed up against a wall with no clearance needed and which need at least an inch clearance all around, still frantically measuring unit heights to discover the uniform half inch problem applying to all of them. Finally we found one that could make it... by just .25" under. We decide to go back home and double-check the measurement first, confirm the .25" wiggle room, go back to Sears again and confirm it's a model that can be smashed in and buy it.
We even get to look like hicks for a while because they don't haul our old fridge away, but the delivery team will leave it in our driveway then an appliance recycling center will pick it up for $12 later on. Thank goodness we have a huge driveway that isn't all visible from the road so our neighbors won't shoot us.
Our upstairs fridge is about ready to die since it's now on the highest power setting in order to stay cold, and even then it's not as cold as our downstairs one. My husband measured the fridge and the clearance we have around it (it's boxed in by cupboards the previous owner did in the kitchen remodel), and we happily set off to Sears thinking there'd be no problem in selecting a new one.
That is, until it became very obvious that fridges have grown in the past 20 years or so (I'm guesstimating the age based on the instruction manual with early-to-mid-80s hairstyles but no actual dates printed in it). The printed dimensions on the smallest fridges there were .75" more than the clearance space allowed! We started to panic, and measured a few ourselves to find out that the measurements were taken on the doors which are slightly higher than the actual unit, but they were still .50" too high.
Enter the sales guy, who helps us out by telling us which fridges can be completely mashed up against a wall with no clearance needed and which need at least an inch clearance all around, still frantically measuring unit heights to discover the uniform half inch problem applying to all of them. Finally we found one that could make it... by just .25" under. We decide to go back home and double-check the measurement first, confirm the .25" wiggle room, go back to Sears again and confirm it's a model that can be smashed in and buy it.
We even get to look like hicks for a while because they don't haul our old fridge away, but the delivery team will leave it in our driveway then an appliance recycling center will pick it up for $12 later on. Thank goodness we have a huge driveway that isn't all visible from the road so our neighbors won't shoot us.
