I have a 12-year-old Whirlpool refrigerator/freezer, S/S, side by side with ice dispenser.
In the past year or so, it unexpectedly and without warning will suddenly turn cold...too cold...and ruin fresh produce in the bottom two drawers, or anything perishable like that in the lower part of the fridge.
I've had to throw food away as a result. I'm really unsure what to do. I really would like to get a substantially larger refrigerator, both taller and wider, as the one I have is pretty small. Its height is constrained by some cabinets above the fridge, and also by cabinets to the left.
If I wanted a bigger fridge, it would require some reconstruction of the cabinets, which I'm really not ready to do since the whole kitchen could use a makeover and it doesn't make sense to do it piecemeal.
Unless I just had someone (a carpenter?) take out the cabinets above and try to find a taller fridge, but not wider. Not sure how it would look though.
As you can see, to the left of the fridge is a cabinet and countertop, but to the right is a folding wood door with passageway to the dining room, plus there's a solid fixed wall, actually part of the cabinetry, on the right as well.
So I guess I'll just live with the unpredictable one I have now? I have it set at the near lowest setting in an effort to keep it from getting too cold. Not sure that's had any effect. I have a thermometer in there but will have to start paying closer attention to it.
Replace the fridge??
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The idea of repairing this fridge and then getting a small 2nd fridge/freezer for the basement is an interesting idea, but I think in the end I'd rather get a larger fridge on the main living level, even if it requires some carpentry work. The biggest challenge is figuring out who would be the best person to do that.
I'm having some other home improvements done this week (stone facade on garage walls, install of a hand rail on my front stairs, and repair/new concrete wall in basement where the old concrete was literally crumbling and a real eyesore.
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When we replaced ours a few years ago, we had to remove the cabinet above it because the new one was taller than the old one and that was the only way to get it to fit. Fortunately we had the room side to side. And we never used that cabinet anyway since it was over the fridge which is a stupid place for a cabinet to begin with.