Nice appliances. I saw that refrigerator in a store and it is awesome. Would be interested what you think after using it awhile.So after what seemed like forEVER, we finally, FINALLY have kitchen appliances. Yay!! After more than nine weeks on order and in shipment, they arrived yesterday. I was more than a bit apprehensive to see the damage to the cardboard shipping boxes. They were pretty shredded in places. My worst nightmare would have been if the appliances had been damaged in shipment, and would have to be sent back. But I opened and examined each item while the trucking company guys stood there waiting. The Vendor had been very specific, that if I accepted them without noting any damage, I was on the hook for any repairs. Luckily, nothing was damaged. Makes me very glad for little miracles.
Then, this morning at 8:00 prompt, a local company I'd hired arrived to install the appliances for me. New challenges: I hadn't considered that these were new and improved, 2020-year appliances, and the house has 12 year old doorways. So it caused a bit of head scratching. How to fit that enormous fridge through those not-so enormous doorways? In the end, they had to remove the doors from the fridge, no small feat. There were wires and cabling and connections and water hoses and whatnot all over the place. I have no idea how he did it, but the guy was obviously very experienced at what he was doing. Even so, it still took him over an hour to dismantle things enough to get the main fridge part through the doorways. But it did finally fit through the doorway. There wasn't a lot of room, and I know if I'd have purchased anything larger, it just wouldn't have fit at all. Yikes! Dodged a bullet on that one!
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The guys stuck with it, and at the end of about five hours of steady work, my four new appliances were installed. The work was absolutely professional, and I could not be more satisfied with things. They look great, and I am delighted. I haven't cooked anything yet, but it all seems ready to go. Here are three quick pictures I took this afternoon:
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So this means we'll be sleeping at the new house tonight, for the first time. We've moved the last of the smaller furniture from the rental, and tomorrow we will run over to St. George to turn in the rented van I've had the last few weeks. I even took time this afternoon for one final dump run, to get rid of a mountain of packing boxes, styrofoam, and other leftover trash from moving. All the appliances came in boxes, with a ton of packing material around them. It was mostly too large to fit in my car, so it was great that I had this van available to get rid of it all. It has worked out beautifully, and I'm sure the neighbors will be glad to not have the van filling the street in front of the house. It's too large to fit in the driveway of the rental house.
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We're meeting furniture movers at the rental tomorrow afternoon to move the last of the big furniture to the new house. Jeff and I will take care of moving the last of the small items and loose things in our cars. Over the weekend we'll clean the rental, and then turn in the keys. it'll be nice to only have to think about living in one house, instead of two.
I can nearly taste it. We're almost done.
Dave
We used the smaller drawer for wine storage mostly. The clear door was for easy beverages, yogurt, snack stuff. The main freezer was used for everyday frozen food, whereas the fridge and chest freezer in the garage were for the big packages and boxes of stuff, and overflow. It works well for us.
Gorgeous actually! and I have fridge envy now
Gorgeous actually! and I have fridge envy now
Hope the last minute things go well this weekend!!
Productive day today, and I'm beat to a pulp. Spent it mostly at the rental house, thoroughly cleaning it out, to make ready for the next tenant, who will move in the first of the month. We got both bedrooms, both bathrooms, the Master Bedroom walk-in closet, the Living Room, Dining Room, and part of the kitchen done. Add in scrubbing things with a fine toothed comb (nearly), to make it all as new as it was when we moved in. I'm dragging my tail tonight. Tomorrow we'll finish the kitchen, because that's all that's left. The rest of the house is done.
The Owner came over while we were there, and was impressed by how nice everything looked. I explained that I had assured him when we moved in that we'd take good care of his property. I want him to get it back as good, or better, than it was when we moved in. I think he appreciates that. I know I would.
And in other news, today of all days, the garage refrigerator we moved yesterday has given up the ghost. It's a 2003 model, and had provided good service all these years. But I think the strain of moving it three times in six months finally took its toll. The GFCI breaker was tripped this morning when I went into the garage. The fridge was off, because it's on that circuit. I reset the breaker, immediately heard electrical crackling from the fridge, and the GFCI tripped again. In the same few seconds there was an acrid, "burning electrical wiring " smell coming from the back of the fridge, and a small puff of smoke rose from the back of the fridge motor area. I unplugged everything, let it cool down, then reset everything, and plugged it in again. The fridge comes on, and the freezer compartment is getting cold, but the fridge section isn't cooling down. The purpose of having the fridge is for the refrigerator section - I have a separate chest freezer that is working great.
Seventeen years of service from the old beast was a good run. This was the original fridge we'd purchased when we first bought our home in Washington. When we remodeled the kitchen in 2012, we kept the fridge because it worked so well. It has had a good life in the garage ever since. I had expected it to go at any moment, and I guess today was the day. So now, after everything else, I guess I'm in the market for a new garage fridge. The fun never stops, ya know?
Dave
Are you our LG go-to person now? I was wondering after Costco what can we ask DaveNV about next.
Are you now our LG go-to person now? I was wondering after Costco what can we ask DaveNV about next.
You got your money's worth out of that fridge.
Interestingly when we had our 2nd home inspection (11 month) this month, the inspector said we should not have our garage freezer on a GFI outlet because if it trips for some reason we might not realize it and lose our food.
But after me checking into this further it seems outlets in a garage are required to be GFI so we could not put in a regular outlet there.
It's the same in the kitchen. I am sure our fridge is on a GFI (it's behind the fridge so I can't see it without pulling the fridge out) as is required of all outlets in the kitchen.
You got your money's worth out of that fridge.
Interestingly when we had our 2nd home inspection (11 month) this month, the inspector said we should not have our garage freezer on a GFI outlet because if it trips for some reason we might not realize it and lose our food.
But after me checking into this further it seems outlets in a garage are required to be GFI so we could not put in a regular outlet there.
It's the same in the kitchen. I am sure our fridge is on a GFI (it's behind the fridge so I can't see it without pulling the fridge out) as is required of all outlets in the kitchen.
If the breaker has a test button its probably a GFCI breaker. The circuit can be protected at the breaker or by the first outlet - GFCI outlet. Since the fridge covers the outlet making it difficult to get to the reset button if it trips that is probably why they used a GFCI breaker since its within 6ft of the sink.