Fridge freezer shorter life these days.

You may just have been unlucky, white goods are designed for an average life of 10 years, but average will include some that have major breakdowns many years before that as well as others that go on for 20 years or more.

Yes our freezer broke down after 4 years. Unfortunately, because of where we are forced to site it and space constraints we had to have the same model. We have been married 48 years and had only had two in 40 years. One even survived a flood that went 18 inches up its door, shows how good the seal was as the water didn't even creep around the seal.

Luckily ours had a 5 year warranty from JL - apparently not for an exchange, although they did replace it in the end as it was probably cheaper than the constant repairs over the 2 years from new.

We had to have a new one after just 3 years. It was 2 days out of a 3 year warranty!

We also had to have (virtually) the same model again Redrobin51 - it was (barely) "updated".

I have been very lucky with white goods - my kitchen fridgefreezer is 15 years old and the upright freezer in the garage is about 20 years old. My previous washing machine was 25 years old - got rid of it only because the external paint started peeling- seriously !

Trouble with fridge freezers is engineers are not allowed to do re-gassing or weld in your house. Compressors are very expensive.

I’ve had my freezer for so long I can’t remember when I bought it. But my partner and son are both having to replace their fridge freezers, which aren’t all that old.

Primrose53

Trouble with fridge freezers is engineers are not allowed to do re-gassing or weld in your house. Compressors are very expensive.

Oh - they did in our house!! Sent from John Lewis.

My AEG freezer is now the grand old age of 41 years.

I have just replaced my fridge/freezer after 5 years. It needed too much work so repair was not cost effective. I wanted a different make but I also wanted 50/50 and the other I saw was so narrow it was not worth the money. I am hoping that this one will "see me out!"

MayBee70

I’ve had my freezer for so long I can’t remember when I bought it. But my partner and son are both having to replace their fridge freezers, which aren’t all that old.

Our old, cheap freezer from Iceland was years old, still working but too small and the drawers were breaking so we replaced it with a more expensive freezer which just kept breaking down.

Our repair guy can re-gas in house too, * Primrose53*

Touch wood the upright freezer in my garage is 22 years old. Like my other appliances I go for Bosch, touch wood again, I've found they've given me longevity.

It seems to be pot luck here, some things survive for ever, others pack up quite soon after the year's warranty. I've never gone for extended guarantees.

The old, basic (cheap) fridge and freezer live on in the garage as 'party' spares, handy at Christmas. The washing machine's doing well but it's not in daily use - and nothing's died recently, touch wood.

Oh well, I was thinking of replacing our two old-ish freezers, for frost free ones.
They live in the garage, and apart from the faff of defrosting them, they work well.
Perhaps I'll just hang onto them now.

NotSpaghetti

Our repair guy can re-gas in house too, * Primrose53*

If it needs re gassing then there is a leak and you have to braze it and that you should not do in a customers house.

Hetty58

It seems to be pot luck here, some things survive for ever, others pack up quite soon after the year's warranty. I've never gone for extended guarantees.

The old, basic (cheap) fridge and freezer live on in the garage as 'party' spares, handy at Christmas. The washing machine's doing well but it's not in daily use - and nothing's died recently, touch wood.

I've never gone for extended guarantees
Our five year warranty was a special offer (no charge).

We're so thankful, but it did start going wrong almost straight away. An AEG, supposed to be good.

You may well be right Primrose53 but I know it is done.

Also, copper plumbing relies on soldering too. I have had that done inside.

On a cheerful note, we had our kitchen refitted two years ago and I bought a new fridge freezer for the kitchen and replaced my chest freezer in the garage with an upright one. Both are working fine. I also have a small seasonal chest freezer, which I inherited from an aunt 15 years ago and was probably 20 years old or more then. That too is still going strong.