American Style Fridge/Freezer, reliable and value for money

[louisg]

Re: American Style Fridge/Freezer, reliable and value for mo

hi,

hope its alright to reopen this thread.

i am currently looking at getting a american style fridge freezer and narrowd my selection down to a maytag.
I today found out by stumbling upon this website that a Admiral and maytag are basically the same company.

So whay are maytags so much more money?

also can anyone post the size of the ice cubes that a maytag or admiral dispense please?

also anyone know cheapest place to buy a Admiral SAF2246B?
i can get it a dixons online for £1395.

last thing does it matter how far away the fridge is to the cold water feed?

Thanks
Louis

[kwatt]

The new Admirals are rebadged Whirlpool units made, I think, in Italy. The one’s you read about with all the board issues. 😉

The proper Maytag’s are the more expensive ones. Simply better built.

The water feed pipes are usually about 5 metres IIRC, but there’s no limit so long as the pressure is okay.

HTH

K.

[louisg]

Re: American Style Fridge/Freezer, reliable and value for mo

sorry what are the board issues?
from what i have read the SAF2246B is very good on the replys on here.

So which would you recomend and why?

Louis

[kwatt]

Re: American Style Fridge/Freezer, reliable and value for mo

Hi Louise,

Have a read at this bearing in mind that the Admirals have changed recently, like in the past few weeks and that hasn’t been updated to reflect that yet.

You will likely find that the SAF2246B is NLA. 😕

HTH

K.

[helo_75]

SIZE of the icecubes?

[louisg]

Re: American Style Fridge/Freezer, reliable and value for mo

kwatt wrote:Hi Louise,

Have a read at this bearing in mind that the Admirals have changed recently, like in the past few weeks and that hasn’t been updated to reflect that yet.

You will likely find that the SAF2246B is NLA. 😕

HTH

K.

Its Louis 😉

could you advise me a model or too to look out for then please?

Louis

[louisg]

helo_75 wrote:SIZE of the icecubes?

yes, i drink alot of magners cider and like large ice cubes in my pint.
some bars have small ice cubes others have bigger size that i like.

just wondering.

😳

louis

[don]

Re: American Style Fridge/Freezer, reliable and value for mo

louisg wrote:

could you advise me a model or too to look out for then please?

Louis

Any from the Maytag site to choose from http://www.maytag.co.uk/ . Also which finish you would like, bearing in mind that stainless steel clad will up the price. Pick a couple and then check out the prices on say tribal, kelkoo and pricerunner.

Don

[kwatt]

Re: American Style Fridge/Freezer, reliable and value for mo

Hi Louis,

Sorry, my bad. 😕

Ice cubes vary, most are sort of boat shaped in my experience and they’re a fair size.

Model I’d go for is any of the 26cu ft ones, they will protrude a bit from a standard 600mm deep worktop but have huge space in them.

This may help you or others that read this thread in the future…

Beware the current crop of cheap US style fridge freezers as they get the price down by cutting the quality. These machines are now seriously big business and there is volume in them now where, until the past few years, they were a very limited market in the UK.

In the past, the usual pukka US ones would last twenty years or more, some of the old Amana’s and Maytag fridge freezers were often topping thirty years old before they were beyond hope. These days, some of the cheap ones I’ve seen I’d be surprised to see last anywhere near that long and they’re not the sort of thing you really want the hassle or cost of changing.

But then the pukka ones will cost you, even with the price cuts of late you’d do well to budget at least £1-1500 if you want a good one. If you want real stainless on the outside add £4-500 usually. Any I’ve seen under £1000 I’ve seen haven’t impressed me as yet bar the old Amanas which were really a cut price Maytag.

K.

[don]

louisg wrote:

helo_75 wrote:
SIZE of the icecubes?

yes, i drink alot of magners cider and like large ice cubes in my pint.
some bars have small ice cubes others have bigger size that i like.

just wondering.

😳

louis

Something like these perhaps? http://www.drinkstuff.com/products/product.asp?ID=124

Don

[helo_75]

or, ideally, buy a samsung and get in the back and chip that iceberg off, and use that

if the titanic would have hit one of them, it would have sank in less than 3 minutes

[louisg]

Re: American Style Fridge/Freezer, reliable and value for mo

Thanks for all replys.

Seems i missed out on getting a admiral then at a good price if all the new models are not very good. How can you tell if it is the new model though?

Well i will have about £1400 to spend in the near future. i would like a stainless steel one as it would match my kitchen. I wot be able to affors the 26 maytag one though thats way out my price range.

Is there really that much more space over a 22?

I only live with my partner at present as well so only two people using it.

One last thing whirlpool own maytag and admiral so how come the maytags are still good and the admirals are now not so good, seeing as maytag orginially bought admiral for there refridgeration expertise?

also i know of a comapny on ebay very repuatble that sell reconditioned F/F http://stores.ebay.co.uk/VILUCCI
i spoke with the man who runs it and he said that if a new customer gets a maytag delivered and theres a scratch/dent etc, they replace it immediately no fuss or questions asked. Maytag then send a new one which could take upto 28days and tell customer to use f/f if they need to or leave it packed up or send it back there choice. Most use it as they need a f/f and when the new one arrives it gets sent to a holding bay.
Basically this guy gets them and sells them on. they go for about£1400 -£1500 as i have watched many of them and i believe thats for a 26 model as well.
what do peopel think to this way of getting one, considering there will be scrathes some are so small or in places you would never see that i wouldnt mind it personally for the price saving and reliability of maytag.

Thoughts?

Louis

[louisg]

Re: American Style Fridge/Freezer, reliable and value for mo

can anyone answer my last post please?

[kwatt]

Sorry Loius, I missed this and I’ve been a bit busy the past few days.

You can only tell so far by knowing what to look for I’m afraid.

There’s a fair old bit of useable space gain on the 26cu ft one, yes.

Admiral is a budget brand, so gets budget machines at a lower price point. The only reason they were re-badged Maytags was because Maytag couldn’t do anything else to compete with the Koreans on price so they were slightly more basic than the pukka Maytags but that was about it.

Now Whirlpool owns them they have access to a whole lot more product and, considerably cheaper but in order to achieve that low price you have to sacrifice stuff.

Maytags, so far, are still what they always were, big solid chunky American fridge units.

B graded stuff… you pays your money…

K.

[louisg]

Re: American Style Fridge/Freezer, reliable and value for mo

thanks for your reply.

Maytag it is then. the hard part starts now …. saving

found these models on tribal

which would you reccomend out of these maytag models as i can get intrest free credit on this site. i cant see any of the models as no one stocks them in Leicester

GC2027HXKB £1043
SAL2027GBB £1105
GC2225GEKB £1967
GS2625GEKB £1972
GZ2626GEKB £2104
GC2227HEKS £2105

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