The Refrigerator saga continues....

Argh!

Published on September 10, 2004 By citahellion In Home & Family

You may have read my two articles so far about my refrigerator tribulations (here and here). Basic story: a month ago my fridge broke, new compressor had to be ordered, repair person didn't show up when they were supposed to.

Well. Today I burned another vacation day waiting for the repair person. I am happy to say, this time at least she showed up, albeit at 2:00 pm instead of between 8:00 and noon as promised, but hey, she was here, which is more than we could say last time.

So she goes to work on the fridge. Says it'll take about 2 1/2 hours. But after only 75 minutes, she lets me know that she's done! Woo!

Whoops, not quite woo. Apparently the reason she's done so quickly is that the compressor that they ordered doesn't fit my fridge. (Needs the fridge to have an oil pump or something, without which this new compressor will die a horrible, rapid, and very smelly death.) So I still have no working fridge and I've still blown a vacation day on not having a fridge.

Now instead of trying to order the correct part, they're going to just let me do a swap at a local appliance store. I'm thinking I'll head to Sears, we've had pretty good experiences there, at least.

However, there's one potential glitch in this process. The note on the repair slip says I need my original receipt or invoice.

I didn't buy the stinking fridge, it came with the house. I don't think I HAVE the receipt or invoice. I own it, but apparently I can't prove that fact to anyone's satisfaction. (The repair shop kept referring to me as Tim, the name of the guy who sold me the house, in spite of my correcting them about 8 times..)

Well, time to make a few more phone calls....

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Comments

Texas Wahine

on Sep 10, 2004

It's voodoo I tells ya . . .

citahellion

on Sep 10, 2004

Well! I am happy to say that my real estate agent was on top of things when we bought the house, because in going through our papers I came across a notarized bill of sale detailing the fact that I bought all the kitchen appliances from this Tim fellow. So Ann, Krystal and I traipsed off, papers in hand, to the local appliance store (which was in fact a Factory Outlet where the repair center was based; I misunderstood when I was thinking I could just go to Sears or some other whitebox store), picked out a similar fridge, and it should be here very soon...
... namely, next Thursday.

Which will make about 5 weeks of refrigeratorlessness (now there's a good word, eh?).

I'm very glad Sears had a special on the mini-fridges a few weeks ago, so we do actually have a tiny little fridge (and have for a couple of weeks now), but it's 1.7 cubic feet, compared to our old one's 25.4 or so. You can't even put a standard gallon of milk into it (half-gallons do go fine, though.) Only set me back $60. Which is cheaper than the service call was going to be, even. Which I'm happy to say, is costing us nothing at all now. Free delivery, free removal of the old one, etc.

I only hope the delivery department (and their truck) is a lot more timely and reliable than the repair department.

Texas Wahine

on Sep 10, 2004

Yay, citahellion! I'm glad it's *almost* over . . . won't it be nice to put your groceries away in a big, roomy fridge?

citahellion

on Sep 11, 2004

We haven't even really been on a proper grocery expedition since this whole thing started! Our coupon sorter is starting to overflow. It will definitely be good to have a real refrigerator again.

stevendedalus

on Sep 11, 2004

When a major appliance breaks done--what with the cost of repairs--order a new one right away. It's a throw away society, you know.

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