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[TD]

And I'm glad!!!

Took my mum shopping for a new fridge this afternoon.
Two rows of fridges on display.....but only two that were 55cm wide and didn't have an ice box in them! 
Anyway chucked new fridge in the back of estate.....and away we went.

Unpacked the new fridge on her driveway.....now to take the old one out...

Old fridge must have weighed nearly twice as heavy....I picked it up only to put it down a damn sight quicker than I picked it up.....
So I dragged it outside and just managed to get in the back of my estate.

New....easy peasy.....picked it up easily and placed carefully down 

So my mum now has a working fridge again and on the upside, when I took her old one to the tip, the guy directing two long lanes of queues, let me queue jump to the front and another guy at the tip came over to help me unload it 

[STEMO]

I was under the impression that really old fridges had to be disposed of in an environmentally friendly way because of the CFC's they contain. A lot of tips wouldn't take them a while ago.

[TD]

I was under the impression that really old fridges had to be disposed of in an environmentally friendly way because of the CFC's they contain. A lot of tips wouldn't take them a while ago.

Probably why it didn't work anymore.....leaked away maybe....

But thats why I got queue jumped, you are not allowed just to chuck in a skip for landfill......they go in a designated area that I guess an approved contractor comes to take away and sucks out the CFC's into a bottle before crushing em 

[STEMO]

Nowadays it's global warming. But do you remember when fridges were destroying the ozone layer and letting the sun melt the North Pole? 

[Sir Tigger KC]

I used to work for a transport firm that had a contract with Curries to collect all the old fridges they swapped on delivery.  We'd take them back to the yard and a Romanian firm came a collected them for repair and resell back in Romania. 

[zirk]

You know that you are suppose to leave a new fridge in the upside position for 24 hours before you switch it on, if its be moved horizontally.

[omega2018]

is the make of the new fridge 'Bush'?  if so you'll be doing all this again in 12 months plus 1 day .

[Crazycarzowner]

is the make of the new fridge 'Bush'?  if so you'll be doing all this again in 12 months plus 1 day .

Someone said that about our double oven 5 1/2 years ago.........

[omega2018]

i don't think even 'Bush' could f*** up an oven what is there to go wrong?

[Crazycarzowner]

i don't think even 'Bush' could f*** up an oven what is there to go wrong?

Could say the same for a fridge. Ovens heat hings up , fridges cool em down.

[omega2018]

no moving parts in an oven...

except if it has a fan or clockwork timer.

'Bush' could f*** those up I suppose

[STEMO]

My mother has a Bakelite bush radio which still works. I believe her favourite station is Hilversum. 

[Bigron]

Stemo, your mother's radio was made in England, properly, and made to last.....

Ron.

[Andy H]

I was under the impression that really old fridges had to be disposed of in an environmentally friendly way because of the CFC's they contain. A lot of tips wouldn't take them a while ago.

Probably why it didn't work anymore.....leaked away maybe....

But thats why I got queue jumped, you are not allowed just to chuck in a skip for landfill......they go in a designated area that I guess an approved contractor comes to take away and sucks out the CFC's into a bottle before crushing em 

While CFCs were still in general use the foam insulation was filled with CFC gas as a blowing agent. Vacuuming the gas out of the pipes is the simple part. Recovering the gas from the foam is a different task altogether. I don't think it is as simple as just crushing the thing https://www.gov.uk/guidance/recover-f-gas-when-disposing-of-equipment-and-insulating-foam

[TD]

You know that you are suppose to leave a new fridge in the upside position for 24 hours before you switch it on, if its be moved horizontally.

True if the fridge has been used, new fridges/freezers are ok to turn on straight away iirc