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Re: Kal group, Ireland, launches Nordmende white goods, anyg

An update on my fridgefreezer search.

A friend got the static version of the Nordmende I was asking about here, I’d been talking about it at length. I have to say it’s a very nice machine for the price. The finish inside is better then a several others I’d looked at, it’s got strong glass shelves with anti spill rims, very strong door shelfing which is better then in many. The bottom freezer drawer comes out and has little ramp that fits to floor of freezer so when defrosting it acts as a bucket, which stops water going anywhere else, I hadn’t noticed that when looking at it before, and it’s really handy.

It has 3 year guarentee, and the user instruction manual is printed in only English and German, that was something new that I hadn’t expected.

It would seem they are happy to market this product back to the country of origin of it’s branding, so they must have a lot of confidance in it’s quality.

One last sticking point was if it was noisy, I could find no information listed anywhere for these fridges, but it’s not, it’s the usual sometimes faint murmer of coolent and hum of motor, both seeming very low to my ears. I have my own new Normende beside a Simens dishwasher rated at 47db beside it which is very quite, and it’s no lounder to my ears, so that’s fine. And it’s no louder then my old and still working Hotpoint 12 or more year old static, just too small these days for me.

I feel by sticking with a static freezer and having a machine with a 3 year guarentee, that for my money I done ok. I couldn’t get a big enough Bosch which was my first choice, but am now very happy with this machine as it’s much better quality on the inside then comparable Bosch fridgefreezers I was looking at. From what I have learned, this Normende line of machines is unique in manufacture to the major Irish whitegoods distributer KAL so not related to other Normende product lines unless KAL is listed as marketing company.

Time will tell, thanks again for you help. And to this site for it’s education.

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Re: Kal group, Ireland launches Nordmende white goods, anygo

Thanks Specialist, I edited my post to also show units I would jump at if I can get a solid bit of advice.

After reading this forum a lot, I decided against a frost free fridge, but can’t find anything with the capacity that I need that is not frost free.

I am more inclined toward the other models I listed if anyone can point me toward something that would be most reliable with parts easy to find in a few years. The Normende is a great price and very attractive with it’s full 3 year guarentee. I’m not seeing parts availabilty for it online and can’t find who makes it as yet.

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