Customer Reviews for GE - 30 in. Wide 19.2 Cu. Ft. Top-Freezer Refrigerator with Garage Ready Design - Slate
Customer Rating
4
Strange
on January 25, 2022
Posted by: Dissapointed i
from York PA
On first impression the refrigerator sits down so low to the floor. You have to get way down to access most things in the fridge. Really rather odd! Accessing the bottom shelf on the door is almost impossible since its inset so far into the door. Lots of freezer space shame there wasnt more fridge space. The whole fridge sits too low. Come on GE is this your first fridge???
We purchased this refrigerator as a replacement for a 30 year old refrigerator. The new refrigerator has a larger freezer, which is good, but to get items out of the refrigerator you need to bend over more. However, the new layout of door and refrigerator shelves is not as good. The door shelves are wider to accommodate a gallon size milk or water container. This means that the interior shelves of the refrigerator are narrower. The bottom door shelf is positioned just above the door gasket. It will hold very short bottles but access to the shelf is difficult because the next shelf up is wider. These two shelves cannot be switched with each other because the wider door shelf would hit the crispers if you try to close the door.
After installation, the refrigerator took about 5 hours to reach correct cooling temperature. During this cooling period, the refrigerator was louder than normal operation of the old refrigerator. During normal operation, it is slightly louder than the old one.
The freezer and refrigerator have glass shelves. The door shelves have solid bottoms. Both features make cleaning easier. An ice maker is not included, but is an option. If you are old school, there isn't an ice container. Also, it does not include an egg tray.
This GE fridge seems like more space than our last fridge even though roughly same size. Better use of internal space as a Garage beverage fridge and great freezer space for overflow of our kitchen freezer.
I'm quite happy with my new refrigerator. It's stylish and spacious, and the doors were very easy to reverse. My only complaint is that I had to set the lower compartment to maximum in order to reach 40*F, which is barely acceptable. I'd like to have it a couple degrees cooler, but my main concern is that most refrigerators are powerful enough that the maximum setting will actually freeze food.