American Fridge Freezers - How do they get them through the front door?

[emlu67]

Our fridge freezer (inherited from previous house owner) is giving up and we were going to order another when we thought 'how on earth can we get it out of the kitchen and front door?'. Our doors are a standard width (approx 73cm)Does anyone have any experience of this and/or know a reputable retailer that would be willing to take doors off or whatever is necessary? They must have got it in somehow originally!

If you want the doors taken off you'll have to do that yourself. Delivery men won't do that (or at least none that I've ever come across!)

Virgil's right, the delivery men won't take them off, but we took the doors off ours to get it into the house we're in now and it has been fine - that was 5 years ago.

We had to take doors off the fridge and the house!

yup....doors off. Fridge and house!

Our delivery guys did it, but I had rather thrown down the gauntlet and claimed to have moved the range in with only my husband and the dog for assistance. So they did not want to be beaten! :D

AND I offered a bacon sarnie for when they had finished!

Our new one came in the back sliding doors. Had to remove fence panel to get it in garden.

This sounds like a nightmare, I knew there was a good reason the people we bought the house from wanted to leave it! smalltownshame thanks for the link I will speak to them and see if they can help.

Just spoke to them and they think that they may not be able to get it out so back to square one!

funny you should ask that

my neighbour had to do that two weeks ago, he asked if it could go through my back garden, and had to take down a fence panel at the side of my house, then another one between my back garden and his. He is going to buy and fit a new panel.

Wooden front doors are mostly 30inches or 32inches wide. He has a plastic front door which is narrower.

Measure yours.

I can't see why a deliveryman, who is presumably tasked with delivering ten fridges a day or something, is going to want to spend a couple of hours removing and refitting doors, unless someone pays him for it.

A skilled joiner can remove and refit a wooden door and frame fairly easily in an hour or two, if necessary. Plastic doors are horrible more difficult.

Smalltown that company were willing to do it as a general rule but as it is a Maytag they thought they may have troube getting it out and the delivery guys would not want to spend ages trying. I explained that the top of the unit goes over the doors so don't know if this would stop them getting it out or can be removed as well.

am i missing something? the fridge freezer went in so it must be able to come out- unless walls have been built afterwards (am i being a bit thick?)

the kitchen units might have been fitted afterwards

if the front door is plastic, it may be narrower than the old wooden one.

The previous owners did have alterations and extensions so I think the house may have been built around the fridge! They did a lot of strange things in this house we have had to rectify and were not 'forward-planners'!

I have the instruction booklet but it is as good as useless.

Have you got sash windows?

I live in a basement flat with the tiniest front door and when we WON AN MN FRIDGE we took out the sash window in the living room and for twenty quid the delivery guys hoiked it in.

Ours came in through the back door, with no more bother than removing the FF doors. We have plastic doors too. Delivery men did it all for us. If you can remove the doors then get it out by tipping it any which way, then you should be able to get a new one in the same way.
They have to stand for at least 6h before you can turn them on anyway.

emlu67 "I have the instruction booklet but it is as good as useless."

You mean it doesn't tell you how to take the doors off?

PigletJohn - instruction booklet tells us what the parts are and that is about it, certainly nothing about taking doors off!

Tethersend - no sash windows unfortunately

can you tell me the make and model?

Yes it is a Maytag GS2728EEDB

here we are

Freezer door unscrew parts 7, 8, 18 and the door will lift off (or fall off). Parts 9, 10, 12 appear to be the bottom pivot. it might be safer to lie the appliance down on its back before removing the door

Fridge door remove parts 7, 8, 14 The short pivot pin will go into a socket in the door, so the door lifts off it.

Thanks so much, still not sure how you get the top off though to access the doors!

can't see it in any diagram but there must surely be some screws visible once you pull it away from the wall.

If you can take the bottom pivot off, the door will come away downwards (it will be more solid than the top pivot)