Fridge not cooling below 48*. It was in the house when we bought it 12 years ago and it was by no means new.
So spent all day researching new fridges in our price range and style we want. Found a Kitchen Aid on sale for a decent price that gets very good reviews.
While I was shopping online it said it would be delivered the next day. But I wanted to go to the store and mess with it and make the sure the wife looked at it and agreed she liked it.
So now we have to wait till Monday for delivery.

Go to the kids band concert and come home, go upstairs to put the laundry in the dryer to find the leak pan is pretty wet.
Open the door and find that the rubber seal (front loader) is ripped. To be honest if I had not literally just spent $2200 on a refrigerator.
I would have ripped that damn thing out and threw it in the yard and went and bought a top loading Speed Queen.
But instead I’ll spend the day researching how to replace the seal. Which I think is just held on by a long cable spring. So hopefully not too hard but I think the seal is a couple hundred bucks at least.

Ohh, did I also mention I have to have the shocks on my truck rebuilt? A job I can’t do! Ohh well.

My frig is throwing signals, 1996 vintage, kinda a simple one. I should measure it & start research. I don’t have plumbed water or ice, make cubes the old fashioned way.

Yeah, with a minor defect, I’m likely to fix it myself if possible.

This may or may not help but our last purchase of a freezer that went tits up was done through Lowes. Mainly because we had size requirements for where it lives in the garage, height. This led us to Lowes as they had one that met them

I cannot say enough about the smoothness and overdone communication with delivery

^^^^^^^^^^
Went through Lowe’s.
Best price and I am some sort of Rewards member so I got the premium Delivery, install, install parts, haul away, and 2 year protection plan at no extra charge.
Plus, for the purchase get like $25 in rewards bucks.

Not horribly mad. Our fridge was an old side by side. No good way to organize it.
All the door pockets were brittle and a few needed replaced.
I had been wanting I get one just had not felt like spending the money until I had to.

Just bad timing (not sure things ever break at a good time).
Just bought the boys a $1200 basketball hoop, my truck needs shocks rebuild $200 a pop (just going to do the fronts now), and have an appointment to fully ceramic tint the wife’s Navigator.
Been putting that off too since we got it in the fall and heat was not an issue. Now that it is warming up need to keep this thing cooler as there is a TON of glass.

You may need a specialty set of expansion pliers for the seal spring.

Some manufacturers will let you special order a fridge. I requested no handles and no ice through the door.

Was able to refinish the doors and it now looks as an extension of the cabinets.

Let us know how yours turns out.

The video I watched from Appliance Part Pros you just pop the front spring out with a flat head and the inner one is like a giant band camp and you use a Phillips to loosen and tighten.
Looks like a fairly simple job.

As for the fridge it’s a Kitchen Aid and the hardware is pretty much identical to the Maytag stuff we have.
The handle shafts are just knurled vs smooth.

Nice!

Well, Lowe’s sent me a lovely email today that Ooopppps we don’t actually have that fridge available so your order and delivery have been cancelled!
Great, lovely, wonderful. No big deal I’ll just choose the Frigidaire that is pretty much equivalent. Well no delivery available on that until at least April 28th.
Joy!
So surf over to Home Depot’s site and they have the Frigidaire available to be delivered on Wednesday.
After shopping and reading reviews pretty much set on these two so guess Wednesday it will just have to be.
Positive side of things it’s $50 cheaper, 5 year warranty instead of 2, $25 rebate for each fridge filter purchased from Home Depot for the first 5 years of the fridge, so $250 in rebates presuming a 6 month change interval, and if we do not have any warranty claims we get a $100 check.

If this luck continues this thing will arrive all beat to hell but fingers crossed everything goes smoothly.

Washer is fixed.
Was not a terrible job.