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What size fridge will fit?

sunsoleil
16 days ago

Just got this refrigerator delivered and the door wont open. Itis a 33” opening. What size fridge would work?


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    Minardi
    16 days ago

    Looks like you need a 24" fridge, so you can open a door. That's design malpractice to place a fridge against a wall like that with no fillers.

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  • Joseph Babcock
    16 days ago

    The user manual typically includes measurements needed for clearances next to a wall. Unless you have a zero clearance hinge you won’t be able to put a 33 inch next to the wall you’ll need a 30 inch to allow 3 inch width for the door swing. Getting a model with pocket handles may also save you some space.

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  • jwvideo
    16 days ago
    last modified: 16 days ago

    As best I can tell, the news is not going to be good if you want anything other than a not very large top freezer model.

    A 32" wide refrigerator that will fit in that space with a door that will open 90° would be a standard depth bottom freezer (BF) model such as an LG LRDCS2603S with the door hinged on the right. That's just an example I picked for illustration because the fridge in your photo is an LG french door (FD) model. The difficulty with a right hinged door for your kitchen would be finding a convenient landing space for parking things when bringing them to and taking them out of the fridge. A bottom-freezer model's door would block access to even more of the handy landing space to the right of the fridge than with your French door model. Does your kitchen maybe have an island or table within easy reach? Maybe the kitchen is narrow enough that you can easily reach across the aisle to a counter on the opposite side of the room?

    Otherwise, a quick search turned up some 30" wide FD and BF fridges, but there still was not enough clearance for doors opening to the left. For example, LG's 30-inch wide models' left side doors (according to LG's dimensions sheets) need a 33¼" wide space for a door to reach 90° without handles and 38" with them. A quick search failed to turn up anything like a 30" wide FD or BF fridge model with pocket handles and/or zero clearance doors. Units with zero clearance doors (such as Subzero) are probably not in the budget and also would be too tall for the existing space. There are some 24" to 25" wide fridge models, as Minardi suggested, but the ones I was finding were expensive and many seemed too tall for your space (lke 80" to 84" tall).

    ETA: see comments below about top freezer models that might be workable for your situation.

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  • chispa
    16 days ago

    If you need the larger fridge capacity, then get a single door fridge that is hinged on the right.

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  • jwvideo
    16 days ago
    last modified: 16 days ago

    Adding to Chispa's advice, there seem to be several top-freezer models with pocket handle doors that can be hinged on the left and which might fit your space while leaving your countertop unblocked.

    Exlectrolx-Frigidiare offers some 30" wide top freezer models with pocket handles that might allow you to have doors swinging to the left. The model with a stainless steel finish is the FFHT2022AS

    LG offers a very similar looking one (also 20 cu. ft. capacity) with the same kind of pocket handle door and its spec sheet reports that the width is 31 3/4" with the door open at 90°. Here's a link to an LG spec sheet: https://www.lg.com/us/support/products/documents/LTCS20220%20Spec%20Sheet.pdf

    The LG model # for the one with the stainless steel finish is LTCS20020S.

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