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I have noticed more and more people have got these huge fridge/freezers stuck in their kitchen. 🙁
Whilst fixing a Zanussi Double Oven today, couldn’t help notice a Zanussi F/F covered in tons of fridge magnets, shoe-horned into a space between floor to ceiling kitchen furniture and dropped in behind ceramic floor tiles butted up to the base of it.
My only thoughts was for the poor bu**er that may be called in to fix that one day, and how the hell is he going to shift it???
Last Tuesday I spyed upon a great big Smeg F/F that must be 6 foot high, fitted into an old ‘pantry’ type space, goodness knows how that got in there let alone the poor soul called in to fix it the day it goes wrong 😯
A few weeks back I couldn’t get to unplug a washing machine ‘cos it was plugged in behind one of these darn great beasts and sat on soft vynlay flooring to boot. Not only could’nt but wouldn’t shift it lest I cause myself a mischief and damage the flooring. I had to chop off the mains lead in the end, fix the machine then reconnect with a in-line mains coupling.
And I thought built-in dishwashers were tough to get at, to hell with fixing fridges IMO 🙄
If you can get it out on the rollers fair enough, if you can’t I treat it as an abortive call. The appliance is supposed to be accessible for service…. yeah right. 😕
K.
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The boss has chiselled up tiles before to repair intergrated d/w. It something kitchen fitters like to do. Tile right up to the appliance with inch-thick tiles. The problem come, when the d/w is supplied with the kitchen, hence very cheap, hence very poor, hence will break very soon, and has been installed badly.
ps. he doesn’t charge extra for chiseling tiles up, coz it’s so much fun. 🙂
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Goatboy wrote:The boss has chiselled up tiles before to repair intergrated d/w.
Very interesting, but I was referring to fridge/freezers in this instant 🙂
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To be fair to Goatboy you did mention dishwashers at the end of your original post, so he wasn’t really going off-topic 😉
Craig
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NWAR wrote:To be fair to Goatboy you did mention dishwasher
True I did!…sorry Goatboy 😳
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I’m that ‘ Poor B****r ‘ who has to deliver and install them. It’s the one part of my job I hate. Every time I get to an address the first thing they say is ‘ I didn’t realise it was that big’ if not that it’s ‘how are you going to get that in.’ It’s nearly always a tight pasage way or a narrow side passage with lovelly flint walls designed to scratch the life out of the fridge. If your lucky you can put them on a barrow sideways and they just fit, I wish that was always the case! In most cases the doors come off, then the side is thinner than face on. However there’s allways the customer who lives upstairs. Unfortunately for the customer I have to refuse upstairs deliveries, there heavy enought just to get them on the van. It may seem a bit of a poor service but I’d rather loose one sale than a few weeks off with back ache or worse. Fortunatly I don’t have to repair them but most are on rollers, if the floor is smooth enough they should roll out, the wheels are usually quite good. After that it’s down to you experts and I have great faith in all of you. 😉
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I ‘ve seen some appliances and thought ‘Which muppet installed this?’
Now I know. 😆
No offence Gonzo. 😆
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I’ve never had any real problems getting the big fridge freezers out, they do normally slide out quite easily once unloaded, if the customer has had it tiled-in then i’ll have a go at getting it out within reason.
I certainly wouldnt go in bashing the tiles up – if it can’t be removed without A) damaging customer’s property, B) damaging the appliance, or C) damaging me then as far as i’m concerned the customer must arrange for it to be removed. I have been known to quote the “reasonable access” bit as kwat said.
I did have one built in fridge once – the ones with the tall legs & between the front & rear legs the kitchen fitters had run the waste pipe, hot & cold feed to the washing machine and a gas pipe, customer was advised to call her kitchen fitters back on that one.
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All of the big fridge freezers we do slide out quite easily, providing they have been installed correctly!
I have been to a few houses where they have placed them on a plinth about six inch’s off the ground. :eeek:
At that point I tell them that they must, at their expense, arrange to have the thing stood on the floor, where it’s designed to be. :lesson:Another thing that gets my goat (sorry Goatboy) is the recent trend to fit integrated dishwashers a foot and a half off the ground.
I would love to introduce my foot to the groin of some of these kitchen designers 😈
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BSH-MAN wrote:Another thing that gets my goat (sorry Goatboy) is the recent trend to fit integrated dishwashers a foot and a half off the ground.
Current thinking from any of the manufacturers that I’ve had conversations on this with are the same as my own, it’s not the way that it was intended to be installed and we don’t have to pull it out. Reason being that if you scrape the door/trim below it then then you’re liable, just a joy and that’s only the start of the issues. 😕
K.
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