How do y'all feel about Frigidaire vs. GE vs. Whirlpool

[RustyA]

10 years ago replaced our kitchen appliances with Frigidaire Gallery stainless and black. Dishwasher had great reviews and has a double filtration system that is easily cleanable. Convection microwave makes great football snacks. Convection gas range bakes fabulous pizza and pastries. French door fridge with ice and water has been flawless. Bought extended warranty due to frightful stories about new appliances. No repairs to any of them for 10 years, just clean dishwasher filter and replace water filters in fridge twice a year. Filtration in dishwasher is key to long life, keeps debris out of pump system.

 

[HawkinsHollow]

10 years ago replaced our kitchen appliances with Frigidaire Gallery stainless and black. Dishwasher had great reviews and has a double filtration system that is easily cleanable. Convection microwave makes great football snacks. Convection gas range bakes fabulous pizza and pastries. French door fridge with ice and water has been flawless. Bought extended warranty due to frightful stories about new appliances. No repairs to any of them for 10 years, just clean dishwasher filter and replace water filters in fridge twice a year. Filtration in dishwasher is key to long life, keeps debris out of pump system.

Yep Frigidaire Gallery is what I'm looking at. That is great news!

 

[RustyA]

I hope you have as good of luck as we've had. I'm the cook in the family and love the range and microwave. Convection oven cooks even big casserole perfectly evenly. I have a friend with wolf and subzero appliances. He paid huge money for them and they've been nothing but trouble. Parts are expensive as heck and can only come through dealer. I'm not trying to impress anyone just want good reliable stuff that works like it's supposed to.

 

[MMC]

We are going to do a dual zone mini split. One zone for the master bed//bath and the other for the new living room. The existing will be heated and cooled by the exisitng heat pump that does a pretty good job. Yes, we are going to insulate the addition well, and possibly update some of the insulation in the existing where possible without ripping down drywall unnecessarily. Our electric bill is right around $90-120 summer and winter, and we are 100% electric appliances. We will be going to gas stove and gas on-demand water heater.

OK, enjoy reading a lot of the posts on here. Try to keep my mouth shut when I don't know stuff. But, I do know about Mitsubushi Mini Splits. I too, live in the southeast in an 1840s brick house. Which means solid brick walls with its attendant advantages and disadvantages. I have an old (well, now) boiler with wonderful, quiet, baseboard heat...with six zones. For AC and basic heat, I chose Mitsubushi "Hyper Heat" mini splits to basically zone six large rooms (the gas boiler becomes the back-up heat).

Frankly, being older, from an age when heat pumps for heat sucked, these new inverter (read computer driven) mini split heat pumps are, well, great. Very efficient and allow you to "zone" multiple rooms.

Perfect, no. But I wouldn't go back. I've replaced a compressor (because of a leak), and had a couple of small issues, but these things are great. I know you are going "dual zone" but I think you will be pleased. Mitsubushi and Fujitsu are brands that seem professional.

Frankly, I've gotten so good at working with the HVAC guys, running disconnects and watching, I'm going to install a Pioneer unit for a farm worker as a bonus. Well, if I can do auto AC, this don't look too hard (the units are precharged for a certain length). High pressure gauges and vacuum pump, and you're off and running.

My only bottom line advice is get the most efficient heating and cooling unit you can get in the brand you choose.

Best of luck. (And Bosch dishwashers don't seem that expensive - the other stuff...uh, not so much.)

 

[bigtiller]

Wis-ski-on-son

Are you trying to spell Wisconsin?

 

[jyoutz]

Are you trying to spell Wisconsin?

With the appropriate accent.

 

[JasperFrank]

I have trouble putting faith in any US brand any more. I think I'm the last generation to believe in American exceptionalism.

 

[2manyrocks]

Not sure that appliances aren't much different than adding more and more complexity to cars, profit seeking, and the consumer paying through the nose to the point that more than one young person is saying they can't afford to get a start in life.

 

[ultrarunner]

Not sure that appliances aren't much different than adding more and more complexity to cars, profit seeking, and the consumer paying through the nose to the point that more than one young person is saying they can't afford to get a start in life.

I do believe the quest for efficiency and hitting the numbers has affected reliability and performance not energy related.

Over the long run bugs tend to get worked out but it sucks for those with lemons and little recourse along the way.

How else can it be explained the longevity of older less efficient appliances?

 

[2manyrocks]

Used to be that building quality meant building brand loyalty for the long term. Then the folks bent on squeezing profits out of everything figured they could exploit that brand loyalty by buying up the brand names and building these brands cheaply so they don't last as long.

Consolidation decreased competition so the consumer isn't left with many choices if Brands X, Y and Z are nothing but brand names owned and run by the same company.