Any recommendations for a good fridge and freezer set up?

[FingonTheValiant]

Hi, we need a new fridge and freezer, as soon as possible. Our old one is a beko, and it was rubbish.

I'd love to have separates, but we only have the floor space for one, or a fridge/freezer, unless they can be stacked?

I'd love some ideas on a good brand, would like it to be largish and reasonably priced.

Thanks very much! :)

Wehave had a Hotpoint one for 5 years and it is still going strong and is a decent size tall one.

I bought it on recommendation for Hotpoint from my mum and a friend who have used their fride/freezers for a long time now.

Ours was £349.99 from Currys.

Oops no it was'nt it was 279.99 LOL

Thanks mamadiva, I'll have a look at hotpoint.

I think we have a beko fridge/freezer. The fridge is at the top and the freezer on the bottom.

Before you buy a fridge heed my sorry tale. Four years ago I fell in love with a Miele Fridge Freezer in Bentalls for £950. A couple of weeks ago it faded and died. It was out of warranty and I phoned up the Miele customer care people as stated in the booklet for a specialist expert engineer. They said they would put me onto an outfit called ADK Servicing. Three days later I felt obliged to ring them direct as they were clearly too busy to get in touch with me. This was on a wednesday. The earliest they could come out was the following Tuesday between 8am and 1pm. I arranged time off work and waited and waited. When I rang them they insisted that I hadn't booked an appointment for Tuesday but for Thursday - not very likely I explained, I have a very important long standing engagement on Thursday. I rang Miele and asked them to get someone different out to me straight away. They were equally cavalier and said they never booked appointments for the same day. They didn't seem to understand that it wasn't the same day...even if it was, why on earth do they have such a stupid "computer says no" attitude and system. They are supposed to be dedicated to customer service. I was hopping. So I found another engineer on the internet: A Brassset. I had to pay £90 up front by credit card for him to come and tell me on Friday morning - in less time than it took for me to make me a cup of tea - that the necessary new part would set me back at least £200 not including and additional £90 labour plus VAT. He advised me to cut my losses and buy the cheapest fridge in the right size and colour that I could find. I have taken his advice and ordered a Hotpoint from Dixons for £343 which will arrive within a 3 hour slot within 2 working days. When it inevitably breaks down out of warranty I will be disposing of it. The engineer explained that in recent years all fridges have to conform to EU regulations for some gas thing or other which are of a lower requirement than those previously adopted by Germany and Britain and so the quality is poorer. All fridges and their various parts are made in Russia and Taiwan and they area apparently all built to expire in 4/5 years. I don't pretend to understand what this is all about or whether I should trust him but I will NEVER EVER buy a Miele. From now on it's cheap cheerful chuck away white goods for me.

Never spend £950 on whitegoods unless you can act like it cost you £250.

Zanussi frigde fab - washing machines/dishwashers boshc, bosch, bosch.

I can't operate without 68 litres of freezer in my fridge freezer combo. Just lost an old zanussi, after ten year, and bought a new one. It's one litre smaller in the the freexer section and it's killing me. Also won't fit a blardy adults pizza iin the drawers. How annoying is that? One of the only reasons I have a freezer, batch cooking, freezer for midweek can't be arsed cooking don't buy a takeway etc.

But -Zanussi of the past has bee very reliable. Replaced it as fridge went and freezer kept working. Thank god.

Ours is a Bosch Exxcel fridge freezer, but TBH we just went to the Co-op and looked for one in the sale that had about the right amount of space. It has one big veg drawer which is good if you tend to buy long stuff like leeks .