Afternoon all,
Thinking about it, I could have called this thread "One damn thing after another", bearing in mind my recent garage bill 
Anyway, my fridge freezer has decided to shuffle off some part or another, resulting in a perfectly working freezer (thank goodness, as it's reasonably well stocked at present), but a fridge that produces a less than perfectly chilled bottle of wine. (Plus cheese going off before it should)
According to our local electrical chap, we could have it "looked at", although not quite sure what good that would do, unless he has powers that we know nothing about, but the most likely faults would still be around £100 to fix (presumably this sum includes coming in and giving the appliance some sort of prolonged stare 
) but as it's approaching 10 years old, there is no guarantee that it will last much longer. Particularly if the stare is applied through narrowed eyes.
So with a heavy heart and a light wallet we have decided to look for a new one. For "we", please understand that it has fallen to me to carry out all necessary research and report back.
Himself has decided that a black one would look quite smart, which indeed it well might, as the kitchen is mainly light wood with black worktops, and tiles in black, cream and a coffee colour.
There is a slight restriction on height, as the boxed in pipes to the boiler are above the allotted space, and of course a restriction on width as this is limited by the gap between then end of the cupboards and the wall.
So, yesterday armed only with a cup of tea, a notepad and a biro I set to. Various pages quickly became covered in cryptic notes, such as "? box. turk. ?" " Wt. disp. nt nded" and "sld. rck, v.g"
It was when the chat gnome on the Argos site popped up and said "You seem to be looking for a fridge freezer, can I help you?" that I realised I had obviously been going round in circles. Her name was Udi, and apart from trying to convince me of the benefits of a seriously expensive model, she was quite good.
The final result it that I now have a rather impressive excel sheet showing all the dimensions of a range of models, which sites they were on, what make and model number (I was rather taken with the Samsung RB29FSRNDBC [go on, google it, it's real!) but it was a little too deep, my real favourite though was the Hotpoint Ultima FFL1810K, gorgeous handles but sadly too tall)
So NOW what?
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