Comments on: The Refrigerator Saga

By: Chewie

Chewie — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:10:34 +0000

Also… we did hear about the Gladiator as well. What I’ve been told is that even though it’s promoted as being a refrigerator for the garage, it’s STILL not going to work in all environments. We ended up just putting the fridge in the basement so it’s not an issue so I didn’t do any additional digging.

By: Chewie

Chewie — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:09:17 +0000

Berik – sorry to hear that you’re dealing with the same issue. The fridge that we ended up with is a Frigidaire. I’m sorry to say though that one of the fridges along the way that DIDN’T work in the garage was in fact a Whirlpool.

By: berik

berik — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:36:46 +0000

Curious – what brand(s) did you have – don’t want to get this Whirlpool and go through this AGAIN!!!! Thanks!

By: berik

berik — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:28:31 +0000

We just experienced the same thing with Lowes refrigerator but….we bought it in July while it worked fine until now in January I find blood all over the freezer from the pheasants thawing out (in South Dakota)!!!!!!!!! Repair guy comes out and says the whole based on the outside temp thing – grrrrr. I called and the manager said they deal with it all the time and they have a frig call the “Gladiator” that is made just for the garage so can handle cold and heat!!!!! For me the problem was $1200 when we paid $300 for original frig as who sees it in the garage!!!!!!! Salesman’s first question was “is it a Frigidaire?” with a resounding YES from me. I told them I specifically said it was for the garage – yes with -35 to -85 wind chills – and sold it to us no problem. But the ‘next day delivery’ was THREE WEEKS out so we had had drinks all over the place. Long story short – the guys said their Whirlpool’s will do very well in the cold here and haven’t had one returned. They are going to pick up old (new) one and deliver Whirlpool but we will have to pay the difference!!!!! Not a lot just so we get an ‘outside freezer’!!
Just a heads up to ‘garage refrigerator’ people who are my entire neighborhood where we live – WHIRLPOOL ONLY!!!!!!!

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By: Dan Waldron

Dan Waldron — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:16:32 +0000

Thanks for posting the article, was certainly a great read!