Help?

[magid]

I measured my hallway, I measured my fridge space, and I went to Yale Electric¹ and bought a fridge, just what I wanted, EnergyStar rated and a freezer on the bottom. It'll stick out two inches into the hallway, but I decided I could deal with that, to get a bottom freezer (I've wanted one for ages). And they'll deliver before Pesach, so I won't have to clean out the fridge. Bonus joy!

Except.

When I got home, I double-checked the measurements, and looked again at how the bend in the hallway goes. And just about lost it: I don't think it'll fit after all. *cries* ²

Can someone come help me figure out whether the fridge of my dreams will or won't make it into my kitchen? I'm too crazed and frazzled to think I can be clear about this without a saner brain to check me.
(I checked online, and it looks like there are lots of narrower bottom fridges... that are too tall for my space. I'd happily give up the cabinets over the fridge, but I don't know how to take them down, and I'd have to change the order, and who knows wheter it would be in stock... Why the ___ can't manufacturers make as wide a range of sizes as with the top freezer models?!)

Edit, 1100 Just got a call: delivery is between 10 and 1 Monday (not the best window), and even if I measure when I get home tonight, it's too late to keep the fridge off the truck, since they're loading it today. /edit


¹ Quite an impressive place. I sat in a room of crystal chandeliers, feeling rather like Cinderella. And they've got a full-time chef on staff, making food for customers and doing demos for people buying stoves they don't know how to use. (And as a side note: there's a side-by-side fridge with a TV in one door!)
² It doesn't help that I was worn out, needed dinner, and just generally stressed with all I haven't done yet.


Total aside: when did LJ add "Current Location" to the options to put on a post?

Comments

Fridge

[(Anonymous)]

often they will take off the door when they move it in. This gives you a few more inches.
nk

Re: Fridge

[magid.livejournal.com]

Alas, they'd already used those 'extra inches'. Or at least, I think so.

[fairdice.livejournal.com]

Have you asked Yale what they'll do if it turns out it won't fit? Surely you're not the first person to run into this problem.

Note that the fridge comes with doors detached, so the fit-around-the-bend dimensions are somewhat less than the sit-in-the-kitchen ones.

[fairdice.livejournal.com]

(Nuts, beaten by mere minutes.)

This (http://www.maytag.com/products/images/products/refriglores.pdf) (on p.8) says the door-off dimensions are 29 5/8" by 28". If you have a piece of cardboard sitting around, you could cut it to size and try to maneuver it (flat) around the corner. Probably not perfect, but pretty close.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Why didn't I think of the cardboard model? Once I get home, I'll try it.

I suspect I still need to take the bathroom door off the hinges, to get the door handle out of the way, but that's hopefully easier (despite the hinges being painted over).

[coorr.livejournal.com]

well if it doesn't fit through with the doors off and you order one of the taller, thiner fridges, I can probably help you remove the cabinets above your fridge. I did the same thing in my kitchen when we got the new fridge.

Its not that hard, although who knows what the walls will look like behind the cabinets. they might need a bit of work.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I assume the wall behind the cabinets would look fairly awful, but I could live with that for a little while.

[mrn613.livejournal.com]

I agree with the other posters: the fridge is delivered doors off for safety reasons. I'm sure it fits if your old one fit because freestanding fridges come in two standard sizes in the U.S. when the doors are off. Although different doors have different depths, the cases are the same.

[magid.livejournal.com]

My current fridge is old (>10 years), so I don't know whether most fridges come in the larger size now, or it's from before there was standardization. I mean, obviously it got in, but I don't know if it was hoisted over the railing of the porch or something... (and the cabinets above make it impossible to have a larger fridge; 68 inches tall won't fit into a 66 inch high space...

[cutieperson]

perhaps the lack of size range is a failing of the brand/model you chose? the one i am lusting after (also a freezer on bottom) comes in three sizes...

[magid.livejournal.com]

Link? Pointer?

A friend suggested I look at the narrower line she'd gotten one from, but when I looked, they were all 68 inches tall, 2 inches taller than my space. *sigh*

[cutieperson]

i tried browsing the Home Depot site, but i can't tell which it is :/
double doors on top, bottom drawer freezer, shiny silver. the difference between the one i adore and all the others is that the bottom has a basket that kind of pops up instead of just racks or slide-y baskets.

but i know on the fridge itself they list three size options.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I'm apparently a throwback: I don't want French doors or shiny metal.

I think I've seen the basket that pops up, but I don't remember where. The kind I prefer has the freezer door swinging out, not sliding out (rotation, not translation, if that makes sense).

[cutieperson]

aah. the sliding out is key to me, as it allows more access options.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Totally makes sense.

I want to be in front of the thing looking in, rather than on the side. I don't know why it feels so unbalance to be off to the side like that, but it does.

[mrn613.livejournal.com]

If this one doesn't fit, check out the star-k website... they have the scoop on shabbos mode refrigerators there. Seriously, although height and width do change somewhat from brand to brand, there are only two depths so I think this is gonna work for you. Honestly in my circles bottom freezers are not popular for a few reasons number one being that the interior cubic feet is smaller with this type than other types.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the suggestion.

I was brought up with a bottom freezer, and my mom adored having the veggies closer to hand (less likely to have unintended science experiments). I suppose I'll cope if I have to keep with top freezers, but mostly I cook out of the fridge, so having it closer to hand (read: less bending and such) is convenient.

As for size, I still have to figure out where to shoehorn a small freezer in here...

Here is the one I'm getting

[mrn613.livejournal.com]

I'm getting it for $1620 not the listed price.

http://www.kitchenaid.com/catalog/product.jsp?src=FREESTANDING%20%20REFRIGERATORS&categoryId=77&productId=35

Re: Here is the one I'm getting

[mrn613.livejournal.com]

And I'm keeping the fridge currently in the house in the basement to use for pesach (with hasp locks on the doors for safety). I don't plan on keeping in plugged in all the time unless I need it (fridges use alot of electricity).

Re: Here is the one I'm getting

[magid.livejournal.com]

*envy*

If only. Getting a fridge down to the basement would be worse than getting it into my apartment, and I don't think there's an outlet in my storage area (I have only a bit of the unfinished basement).

Re: Here is the one I'm getting

[magid.livejournal.com]

Ooh, shiny! :-)

And that's a great deal you found, too.

[queue.livejournal.com]

So, if the fridge gets put on the truck and they end up not being able to get it in, what do you get charged?

[magid.livejournal.com]

No clue; delivery and removal are supposedly free.

[fetteredwolf.livejournal.com]

I only saw this now, otherwise I would have totally said I'd stop by and take a look. I'm good and fitting things through places. (I once got a really long couch for free, and we brought it up the stairs, but then had to figure out how to tilt it to get it through the hall into the living room door. I've since moved out, and I think that if they got the couch out, the current people must have ended chopping it up or something.)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Much appreciated. I haven't made it home yet to double check, but I'm going to try Fairdice's method. I'm feeling calmer about it since the store called; it's out of my hands for Monday. Well, except for getting the bathroom door off.

(I know someone who just had to cut a boxspring to get it into an apartment.)

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

ARGH! That's frustrating! I hope it works out! (I'm a teeney bit behind in LJ)

[magid.livejournal.com]

It did! It was delivered a couple of hours ago, and it just fit! Yay!

I get out of fridge cleaning this year! :-)