tanith
I couldn’t move mine if I tried for a week.
Unrelated to this thread but I’ve just remembered my mums party trick! She had dementia but when still safe to live alone, she decided that she needed to disconnect all appliances when she went to bed! Then the next day, she forgot that she had done this and thought most things were broken - nightmare phone calls ensued!
The fridge freezer was one appliance she wanted to disconnect but the wall socket was behind it. Mum, age 87, becoming fragile, somehow managed to slide it out and unplug it then push it back in! When I went round one day to see what was going on, I could barely move it an inch!
Once we worked out what was happening we solved the problem by installing safety boxes/plates over all sockets in the house which mum could not remove. For some reason she was able to the forget about the need to switch off appliances when she could not see the sockets. Apparently simply taping a piece of paper the same colour as the wall over the socket would have worked as well.
I still smile at the thought of mum manhandling her full height fridge freezer around the kitchen!
