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Hehehahahaha. Excellent!
Exactly what I was thinking when I wrote that, haha
Does anybody know who the manufacturer is?
Stirling. Australian reseller: Tempo (Aust) Pty Ltd ABN 70 106 100 252
We need more store like ALDI, COSCO to compete with over priced store like Dick Smith, Harvey Norman, Retra vision etc
Dick Smith no longer falls under that list - it’s just a rebranded Kogan now.
Still think they should merge and be called Kock Smith.
Pronounced "Co-smith" like "Cockburn"?
I bought a Hisense 624L side by side fridge for $800 3 years ago from the good guys ebay. So this is not that cheap
I bought a Westinghouse 650l for under $800 6yrs ago at Masters!
The prob with these french doors is they're so skinny it's hard to use them efficiently. The
Next time its an upside down one.
The "upside down one" with freezer in the bottom and two doors for the fridge is called a French door.
Side by sides have one door for the fridge and the other for the freezer which has the storage problem.
Side by side and french doors are different categories. Usually side by side is cheaper.
Bought an LG side by side 6 months ago. Am regretting it every time I use it - too skinny and deep, stuff gets lost down the back and piled on top of everything else. I'll flog it shortly and get a french door setup, as I should have in the first place.
@Boodek: Everytime I open my friends one I cringe at the space. Our non French hisense (freezer in the bottom) is a better buy
@Hahuh: I agree. We have a French door one at work, and it seems to have less shelf space than a normal fridge (freezer on bottom). It seems the shelves are less deep and door pockets bigger. In saying that, door pockets are more useless than shelf space.
Kaufland is coming soon, but no confirmed dates yet. Should give Aldi, Colesworths and Costco a good scare hopefully.
A scare in the short term but I expect Kaufland will retreat within two years after sales figures fall short from projections. Our population is too small to compete in.
I will be inspecting the goods offered, I much enjoy Aldi offerings over the years.
taking ages to even start building! ..the land's been clear for over a year now with no movement
Aldi delivers? W00t!
I saw that - I doubt it'll include any of us out of range of the nearest capital somehow.
Delivery policy document located here:
https://www.aldi.com.au/fileadmin/fm-dam/Products/Special_Bu…
Extract:
Q: Is delivery available for regional locations?
A: There are options for almost any location in Australia. For regional locations the same process applies for customers to organise their home delivery as metro locations however extended delivery delays may apply. Regional locations are considered to be towns that lie beyond the major capital cities and surrounding suburbs.
For customers living in remote locations or on islands off mainland Australia, shipping restrictions do apply. This will be communicated by a customer service representative at the time of registering
delivery details over the phone. Remote locations are considered to be isolated in nature and lack transportation links.
So I guess Tasmania is a no go?
The total volume is quite small for a french door fridge
The dimensions are also pretty small, definitely not as deep as other french doors
Lost me at 3 star energy rating.
Aren't most french door fridges pretty poor with energy use?
Yup. This uses more than my circa 2009 LG 516L (362kWh/year, top-mount).
Double door fridges are the worst design energy wise, as they have more seal area (allow more cold air to leak). Adding an ice machine or a status panel in the door can impact insulation, and allow more heat to get in through it.
Top mount fridges are the best energy wise- as the design requires less cooling effort- having the fridge section below the freezer insulates the freezer section. If the other way around, the freezer is always working harder as will sink (absorb) more heat energy from the floor.
Everyone, no matter what kind of fridge (but especially upside down ones), can probably save on electricity by setting their fridge on an pad of insulative material that still allows air to move through to the compressor, and of course, ensure that heat from the compressor and the evaporator escapes without heating the underneath or the sides of the fridge
Any suggestion on the insulation pad? Sorry had no idea about this.
@tukanglistrik: Sheets of aluminium foil between the floor and a piece of waterproof ply, cut to fit, works well. More layers of foil works better, so two or more sheets sheets of thin ply can be better than one thick piece.
I'm confused. Why is my floor hot? Today in Winter in Melbourne, my kitchen tiles are freezing!! If anything that's helping absorb the heat from the compressor which is what i want!!
@placard: If your kitchen is on a cold concrete ground slab, no need.
Some floors (eg those high enough off the ground) or any not at ground level can warm up when air circulates under them in the summer.
@resisting the urge: Thinking more clearly, your floor need not be 'hot'
The floor may be everything from room temperature down to significantly below room temperature, but it won't be freezing. If you measure it with a thermometer, you will see- it is unlikely to be below 10 degrees, even in Winter. And in summer, some houses will see floors reach 35 degrees or more. Even though a floor seems the coolest thing in your house, no matter what, your fridge is at best 10 degrees cooler in winter, and at worst say 35 degrees (worst type of floor) on a hot summer's day. And more if it is a bottom-mount freezer.
Even at 10 degrees, the amount of heat energy (energy per hour) that can rise through the fridge itself, which your fridge will have to remove is considerable.
But it isn't just the temperature difference that causes this- it is the amount of energy available as well. If you place your hand flat on a concrete floor, it will always seem cooler than a wooden floor sitting above it, even if they are the same. Try a infra-red thermometer to find out.
This is because for every degree of heat difference, a certain amount of heat can flow from skin to wood. From skin to conrcete, the capacity of the concrete to absorb heat from our hand is far greater, and occurs faster than it can with a piece of wood, so to our hand, the concrete feels colder.
Same with the fridge, a well-insulated pad and timber will take time to transfer heat energy, so no matter if the temperature difference is 10 or 20 degrees, it will still reduce the amount of energy that can flow into the fridge, and this will save you electricity. If the freezer section is on the bottom, this difference is more like 20-30 degrees, so some significant savings may be possible.
If you have lino or masonite on your kitchen floor, you can often pull the fridge out, lift the lino, lay down a few sheets of alluminium foil. Lay the lino back on top and begin saving a little bit on your electricity bill from thereon in!
OMG, this is 2019's GOAT fridge
2019's GOAT
What does the 'AT' stand for?
Advanced Technology
all time I guess
2019 and all-time don't belong together was my point. Yaren24 expertly side-stepped this dilemma.
No icemaker
No deal
You'd have no room to fit anything in the freezer if it did.
Seen LG's implementation? Ice makers are kept in the fridge portion and only side by sides have it in the freezer portion to my knowledge.
Lets see Bunnings price-beat this ;-)
~$100/year
268+133 doesn't quite add up to 473L though.
net v gross
Not actually very big for a French door fridge either. Under 500 litres is small.
Personally I'm not a fan of french door design, I often have to open both doors just to see enough into the fridge.
how does opening the second door help you see into the first?
The cabinet is the whole width of the 2 doors (fridge part) and human vision is stereoscopic.
mine has a partition separating the two compartments. So you can't see from one side into the other.
@m9: Wait.. what's the difference?
I thought all french doors were side by side? My first fridge was top and bottom.
@lostn: Side by side = for example freezer on the left side, fridge on the right.
French door = fridge on top with 2 doors. Freezer at the bottom with either doors or drawer.
mine has a partition
AFAIK most french door fridges have one large compartment, so maybe yours is an exception.
@m9: I understand now, thanks.
Aesthetically, from the outside they don't look much different.
I don't think it's a problem to have to open two doors to look inside. If you have a side by side, or a top and bottom, you open one large door which is about the same anyway.
More so, the opening is so narrow, it's often easier to open both doors to have more space to pull something out. Would be easier if you can just open one door instead of having to open two.
No ice maker, but most likely better than the POC Electrolux I paid double the price for 3 years ago.
POC = Piece of ?
May be Crap, should be POS
Did you call me?
These Aldi special buys are getting bigger and bigger, pretty soon you'll be able to buy a Toyota Corolla or a five night holiday to Vanuatu.
More like a Tolota Collora, or a five night holiday at Venezuela.
Stirling products are sold exclusively through ALDI stores in Australia on a promotional basis
Anyone manage to find one?
is good?