Almost decided on F&P until we saw one in a kitchen show room- The freezer is rubbish. 1 drawer you could get a few bags of frozen veg in and the drawer on top is sliced in half horizontally making it pretty useless.Freezer is very low down and annoying to open but I could live with that if it functioned as a normal size family freezer. It doesn’t unless you freeze platters of items on a regular basis. No F&P stockists as far as we can see anywhere and they’re quite pricey so would definitely want to see any in that brand to check the freezer before buying. Interestingly online there are very few pictures of the freezers on F&P American fridge/ freezers. The lady in the show room commented on it and backed up what I’d noticed as we were asking her what the freezer was like on other models and she said it was really hard to know.
Some of the Samsung models have issues with being able to get the crisper out to wash due to poor design. You need a big space to swing open the bigger fridge door. Read in reviews and saw it in reality. They sell other designs but viewing them appears to be hard.
We’d like a reasonable quality but not pricey non plumbed(.but at this stage if we could see it we’d take plumbed ), equal width, well designed doors so you can remove drawers to wash and don’t need a huge amount of swing space to accommodate a wider fridge door,reasonable amount of freezer space( drawers or shelves fine but design wise needs to be on the bottom for equal doors) depth and width right as you need to leave space round it for air to circulate. 🤷♀️ Basically a simple but well designed and reasonable quality freezer that isn’t t style over substance and isn’t silly money that we can view to double check measurements.
Don’t want a family hub, touch screen see through doors that illuminates the shit I’ve got in my fridge, useless style over substance freezers that hold next to nothing, drink dispensers( but would suck that up if needed), crappy plastic drawers that will shatter after a few months and cost £60 a pop to replace, shoddy shit quality, a massive fridge drawer on one side that needs a lot of clearance, a fridge that can turn into a freezer but would such that up…
In curry’s, we’ve seen cracked, grinding freezer drawers, split and peeling door seals, really poor freezer space, metal brand plates repeatedly hanging off models on the same models illustrating how poor quality the product is, read rubbish reviews…. They don’t stock to view F&P, many LG models, any of the better Samsung models,Bosch etc. it’s mostly Haier, Beko, Hisense or brands we’ve never heard of or come out very poor in reviews.
When Curry's disappears( they’re struggling) I wonder what consumers will do.
So will check out kitchen show rooms and independents. Thanks so much for the tips.