Cohousing-L Mailing List: info re: CommonHouse Fridge? (Ruth Hirsch)

[heidinys (heidinys]

Thank you so much for the question about a freezer.   Thought I'd composed the 
right note,    but missed that one.
We have a stand alone full size upright freezer.  It gets a fair amt of use.  
Various households use it for their own storage.

What we currently have, the commercial fridge has no freezer space.   I'll 
paste in original query:

> Hi,
> 
> We are going to have to replace our venerable commercial fridge (bought used 
> 1997, approx.)
> We are deciding between two household refrigerators and a commercial one.
We have a free standing upright freezer, so need no additional freezer.  
However we do not have an ice maker.  We've never actually wanted one.  Once or 
twice a year someone buys a bag of ice for an event.  SO far that is it.  But a 
question to raise.
> We'd love your input.  
> 
> Have you a commercial fridge? 
> If so, what brand?
> Is Hobart actually better?
> What do you have  and do you like it? love it? 
> 
> Have you residential fridges?  
> Are you happy with what you have?
> 
> We love our commercial fridge.  The reasons to consider residential:  
> - the noise bothers some folks a lot. (kitchen adjacent to where we have 
> meetings.  Having someone unplug fridge bec of noise happens.)
> -  repairs need to be done by someone trained to work on this type fridge.  
> Other folks may not have served us well.  
> -  We wonder if,  if we had two residential one,  when we aren't using both, 
> if we could unplug/turn one off.  save electricity.  
> -warrantee might be less costly (we never have had one one the commercial 
> fridge.)
> 
> many thanks,
> Ruth J. Hirsch
> Cantines Island CoHousing
> Saugerties, NY