Well, we've replaced our fridge!

[conuly]

There was so much clingfilm to peel off those doors...! *happysigh*

Apparently some new fridges have smartglass in the doors so you don't need to open them to see what's inside. I love smartglass, but they didn't have great reviews, so. If I hadn't known smartglass was an option I'd be less disappointed by the lack of smartglass.

Anyway, I hope this fridge works out better than the other one which, to be honest, had problems from the start. But it's such a freaking hassle to get fridges into and out of this house, you gotta remove the doors - of the fridge *and* the stairs - that I resolved to suck it up for as long as possible. Also new fridges are expensive, but it was mostly the first problem. I think our house wasn't even made to have a fridge. We have ice windows in the first and second floor pantries.

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Comments

[dine]

my first couple of apartments were in really old buildings with ice cupboards in the kitchen. just a little door, and when you opened it, a perforated metal bottom, and a shelf above to hold stuff to keep cold(ish)

[conuly]

There's some vintage that's not worth vintaging.

[dine]

LOL - well, there were actual fridges too. I omitted the ice, and just used the space to store stuff, as there's never enough cupboard space in apartments

[movingfinger]

A friend of mine in San Francisco lives in a building that had a whole-building refrigerator system circulating cold water, through pipes that ran to all the kitchens and cooled zinc-lined cabinets! The kitchens and cabinets were not large, of course---the building is 1920s I think---and a few of the apartments that have not been remodeled still have the original "refrigerators" for this ultramodern amenity, so much more convenient than the ice man climbing to the third floor up the back steps off the side alley. Now, unfortunately, the pipes are still in the walls although the system is long disused, and any disused pipe network is waiting to become a highway for mice...

[dine]

oh wow - that's amazing! must have been a really swank building, back in the day.

[conuly]

That is also really cool.

[cellio]

Oh wow, that sounds so, err, cool!

[buttonsbeadslace]

I also got a new refrigerator this week, because the freezer of our old one suddenly stopped working. To my absolute shock, the building maintenance people showed up promptly and once they determined it wasn't easily fixable, they brought in a new fridge the same day. I guess they had a spare just sitting around somewhere?

[conuly]

Makes sense to have, actually, if you have a bunch of units.

[adafrog]

Oh wow, old house.

[conuly]

Only about 100 years old.

[adafrog]

Old for the US.

[conuly]

Yes, I believe it may have been one of the first houses on the block. (The actual first house, unfortunately, was left to rot and had to be torn down early in the pandemic.)

[adafrog]

That's too bad.

[chez_jae]

Yay for new appliances!

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Wow, when we were kids, who'd have thought we'd ever say that?

[conuly]

It was up there with "Wow, I'd love to take a nap right now"!

[chelseagirl]

ooh, my aunt's Deco-era apartment on the Upper East Side had one of those. She used it for storage of extra bowls and things, but it was cool. There was also a sealed-up dumbwaiter.

And then someone bought it for $550K and I wonder what it looks like now. She moved there in the mid-70s, it went co-op a few years later and she bought for like $45K as an insider, and we sold it in . . . 2017, I think, after she died.

[conuly]

We just have the window. I don't know why there's no box attached. Maybe it's not an ice window but a something else window? Just randomly in the wall between the hallway and pantry?