Oh, I forgot to tell you about my conversation with the recalcitrant brother, who’s totally going to install a dishwasher for us and recommends we get a fridge with an ice maker and filtered water, which he will also hook up for us, because he’s a plumber, P L U M B E R that spells plumber, as long as I get an electrician out to wire us up right for all that stuff.
So, I was asking him about the well and the pump and such and he was all “Oh, god, those things are nothing but a pain in the ass. They break all the time and you have to get your water tested and you’re not drinking out of the well, are you?” And I was all “But I want one of those wells with a stone base and a long rope and a bucket!” to which he was like “I could find some guys who would put one of those in for you, just for the thrill of doing it, but you know what that means?”
“What?”
“You can never, ever have any kid named Timmy over to your house.”
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Icemakers are nice, but if you want filtered water, get a filter. You will be sorry you ever paid hundreds extra just to have a slot in the door that spits ice all over your floor and doesn’t drain right.
Signed,
One Who Knows
My sister, homer, well her real name is Timi. So I guess she’s out.
:)
ditto on the ice spitting gadget. Wells aren’t bad though. We had one at the old house for 20 years It never broke.
Nice joke. My general rule of thumb for functional appliances is always go for simplicity, durability, and efficiency. I’m with NM and Jim. How much ice are you ever going to need at one time? Just use ice trays; getting them from the faucet to the freezer is a good exercise in balance and coordination.
Hey, I might want to have an ice bath or shoot ice at an unruly guest. I don’t know.
Then get an icemaker inside the freezer, which work OK and don’t cause much mess. But do not get one of those things in the door. They don’t work, and one day you will have a tiny fragile relative over who will slip on one of the pieces of ice you couldn’t find or didn’t bother to pick up,* and you will be unhappy about this.
*This has never happened to me. But I did have a tiny fragile relative with a door icemaker in her refrigerator, and we all walked around worried all the time when we were visiting.
I like having the ice dispenser on the fridge. Never have had a problem with one spitting ice on the floor.
For filtration, I’d prefer to have one of the filtration systems that sits in the basement and filters ALL of the water as it enters your house. Never understood why people won’t drink municipal water because they don’t want to ingest the chlorine but will then hop into the shower and breathe in 100 times as much chlorine in water vapor.
Go ahead and teach Mrs. W to attack and consume the ice as it falls on the floor. It works best in the long run for everybody. The cats will just look at the ice and bat it around to be left in future puddles for the unsuspecting.
I can’t imagine living without an icemaker in the fridge somewhere. My fridge came with a water filter built in.
Well pumps aren’t that expensive or that much of a pain. I would test the water and then use it for the yard. No big deal.
I know a great electrician – he and the butcher would get along great as they have similar interests
;-)
Are there refrigerators with stuff in the door that aren’t side-by-side? For the life of me I have no idea why anyone wants a side-by-side except for the stuff in the door, which is expensive, breaks often, and tastes weird. Of course that water is filtered because most of it comes off the compressor anyhow. Gross! And they just take up space in the freezer anyhow.
But the well pumps and easy access water for tending to the garden. That sounds like a good idea to me.
Of course that water is filtered because most of it comes off the compressor anyhow.
Um no. All of it comes in from the water line that you hook up. What kind of fridges do you folks have anyways?
And I personally am a fan of side-by-sides because there is so much more usable space. There’s rarely a time I refrigerate something wider that a side-by-side fridge compartment (you can lay a large pizza box flat inside of any side-by-side I’ve ever used), and I find the vertical space much easier to organize and sort. In a smaller kitchen, side by sides (or the new french door fridges as well) are wonderful because the doors, when open, take up about half the space a top-bottom fridge door takes up. Also, with the ice dispenser, if you use alot of ice (I’m the type who always has a glass of water or juice with me when I’m home and always with ice in it), you can save about $20 a year or so in energy just by not having to open the freezer door as much.
B, I’d just say give side-by-sides and ice dispensers fair consideration. There are pros to them as well and I’ve never had the problems described here (once in a blue moon a piece of ice might get stuck in the shoot and fall out within 15 secs of using the dispenser; my experience is that such a thing happens about once a year or so. and I’ve NEVER heard of a fridge like the Professor’s that pulls water off the compressor, didn’t even know they existed. Just get one that hooks to your water line like all the ones I’ve ever seen do and that problem is solved).
You know, you can have both. Have the ice thingy in the door and use the ice trays for your chicken stock. Once the stock’s frozen into the nice little cubes, remove said cubes from tray and store in a ziploc bag in the freezer. You now have handy-dandy chicken stock!
THppppppt!!
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