When we purchased our "new" park model last spring, it had a side-by-side refrigerator - older, but it was still working. Unfortunately, it just did not have as much storage as our French door refrigerator in the rig -- and I really don't like side-by-side freezers -- they are so narrow and I am convinced that they have a device that launches the frozen food out onto your toes when you open the door! The refrigerator compartment is also tall and relatively narrow, and this refrigerator seemed to need an additional shelf (which are no longer order-able) so we had to stack up towers with containers of food in the refrigerator section.
Since it was working, it was hard to justify replacing it, but the refrigerator in the casa (older park model) is a really old top freezer model that has doors that are no longer sealing well... so we decided that we could get a new French door refrigerator for our "new" park model and then move the side-by-side to the casa.
We measured our space and found that the most common sizes of French door refrigerators would not fit in the hole in our kitchen -- commonly the refrigerators are 35-36" wide, and our hole is 35.5" wide -- not enough for airflow around the unit. So, we needed to look for a narrower unit and we found an LG model that we liked at 33" wide. It would be a bit deeper unit than the side-by-side, but we figured it would be okay. The only sticking point was that we have a pinch-point between two cabinets that the refrigerator would need to fit through -- the pinch point is 29.75", and the depth of the refrigerator (without doors) was indicated as 29.5". I contacted LG customer support to make sure that it is absolutely no deeper than 29.5" and they assured me that there were no additional appendages on the back and it would fit through a 29.5" opening.
Costco had a good sale going at year end, so we purchased it and had arranged for it to be delivered on January 21, after we would be back from Quartzsite. Just to make sure that our calculation on the opening being 29.5" was going to work, we took the doors off the side-by-side refrigerator, built up the sides to 29.5" with pieces of styrofoam, and moved it out from the hole (with all the stuff still in the refrigerator) and through the pinch point. It fit, so that gave us greater confidence that the new refrigerator should fit through the pinch point. We decided to put it in the dining area so we could use it until the new refrigerator came, and not have to rush to get the things moved over to the new refrigerator.
More in the next post...
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