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So now the 5 year old Hot Point garage chest freezer has died! It seems 5 years is the new 15 years!
I barely got the food into our tiny kitchen freezer and no way can I even open the drawer right now because stuff will fall out. Lucky my neighbor took our 13 lb turkey to keep in her garage freezer.
So trying to look at the bright side I saw this as my chance to get a stand up frost free freezer, something I always had in our former home in our garage. I absolutely hate chest freezers as you have to pull everything out to find something. Only thing is we would have to keep it in our basement- meaning long steep, stairs- which is why we bought the 5 cubic chest freezer in the first place for the garage instead, which is just 2 steps next to our kitchen.
A stand up cannot fit in our small one car garage with my car kept inside. Hence the chest freezer we ended up with.
Long story short- most stores- including Lowes and Home Depot barely have 2 or 3 freezers to look at. Everything is on line. Couldn't even get someone at Lowes to look on line for us. Different experience from when we went there to buy the new dishwasher. (which so far is working great btw). I called Home Depot instead of making the trip and same thing.
So we went back home. I don't have too much of an issue with on line ordering. I bought all my appliances on line when we renovated our former kitchen in NY. At the time was able to see Consumer Reports and ordered their recommended appliances.
So I roam the sites and find a stand up freezer I like. Seems very few have good reviews these days, but GE seems to be good in refrigeration. I decide to purchase it from a local appliance store, but as I am getting ready to order hubby tells me we have to consider the amp usage because the amps are 15 in the basement and probably not copper wires for 20 amps either. I call the store and sure enough the freezer would use 20 amps. We would probably need an electrician not only because of the wiring for a new breaker, but also the issue is the whole house generator is all used up currently. (The garage has 20 amp outlets and on the generator. In the basement where a stand up would be, that is not on the generator currently).
Ok. This is becoming too much of a hassle for me- I need to get this food out of the kitchen freezer pronto. Plus I had a trip to BJ's to stock up for fall planned that is now delayed. Disgusted I order a 7 cubic chest freezer for the garage (we've got a few inches to spare in there) and be done with it. I ended up having to call the store back to order because when I tried on line it kept giving me a much higher price in the cart - by a few hundred dollars! And that wasn't with delivery fee or a service agreement added into it. (It had done that when I was trying to order the stand up as well. Very strange).
So essentially ordered and paid for on my phone through a text with store representative. The new way these days! It's coming tomorrow. No delivery fee. $40 to recycle old freezer. Yeah they tried to sell me a service agreement, but my experience seems mostly that things break right after the service agreement expires so that's a no.
So there goes my frost free stand up freezer that had glass shelves and a temp alarm and not having to dig through layers of frozen food and repack the freezer every time I need to get something out. But glad we won't have to lug food up and down those steps, especially when we do big freezer shopping like from BJ's.
But the positive is we saved $700. (stand up would have been over $1000 and chest is a bit over $400. The chest that broke was merely $150) The new freezer will be upstairs and easy to stock when we get home with groceries and will be a bit larger which we could use. We found the other chest freezer was too small for our liking but we now live in a hobbit house so.....
But it's a chest freezer and it has to be defrosted.
I barely got the food into our tiny kitchen freezer and no way can I even open the drawer right now because stuff will fall out. Lucky my neighbor took our 13 lb turkey to keep in her garage freezer.
So trying to look at the bright side I saw this as my chance to get a stand up frost free freezer, something I always had in our former home in our garage. I absolutely hate chest freezers as you have to pull everything out to find something. Only thing is we would have to keep it in our basement- meaning long steep, stairs- which is why we bought the 5 cubic chest freezer in the first place for the garage instead, which is just 2 steps next to our kitchen.
A stand up cannot fit in our small one car garage with my car kept inside. Hence the chest freezer we ended up with.
Long story short- most stores- including Lowes and Home Depot barely have 2 or 3 freezers to look at. Everything is on line. Couldn't even get someone at Lowes to look on line for us. Different experience from when we went there to buy the new dishwasher. (which so far is working great btw). I called Home Depot instead of making the trip and same thing.
So we went back home. I don't have too much of an issue with on line ordering. I bought all my appliances on line when we renovated our former kitchen in NY. At the time was able to see Consumer Reports and ordered their recommended appliances.
So I roam the sites and find a stand up freezer I like. Seems very few have good reviews these days, but GE seems to be good in refrigeration. I decide to purchase it from a local appliance store, but as I am getting ready to order hubby tells me we have to consider the amp usage because the amps are 15 in the basement and probably not copper wires for 20 amps either. I call the store and sure enough the freezer would use 20 amps. We would probably need an electrician not only because of the wiring for a new breaker, but also the issue is the whole house generator is all used up currently. (The garage has 20 amp outlets and on the generator. In the basement where a stand up would be, that is not on the generator currently).
Ok. This is becoming too much of a hassle for me- I need to get this food out of the kitchen freezer pronto. Plus I had a trip to BJ's to stock up for fall planned that is now delayed. Disgusted I order a 7 cubic chest freezer for the garage (we've got a few inches to spare in there) and be done with it. I ended up having to call the store back to order because when I tried on line it kept giving me a much higher price in the cart - by a few hundred dollars! And that wasn't with delivery fee or a service agreement added into it. (It had done that when I was trying to order the stand up as well. Very strange).
So essentially ordered and paid for on my phone through a text with store representative. The new way these days! It's coming tomorrow. No delivery fee. $40 to recycle old freezer. Yeah they tried to sell me a service agreement, but my experience seems mostly that things break right after the service agreement expires so that's a no.
So there goes my frost free stand up freezer that had glass shelves and a temp alarm and not having to dig through layers of frozen food and repack the freezer every time I need to get something out. But glad we won't have to lug food up and down those steps, especially when we do big freezer shopping like from BJ's.
But the positive is we saved $700. (stand up would have been over $1000 and chest is a bit over $400. The chest that broke was merely $150) The new freezer will be upstairs and easy to stock when we get home with groceries and will be a bit larger which we could use. We found the other chest freezer was too small for our liking but we now live in a hobbit house so.....
But it's a chest freezer and it has to be defrosted.
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