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The thing that usually breaks on my refrigerators is the plastic shelves. They just don't seem designed to last more than 4 or 5 years at the most. I'm not sure
by troupe 3y ago
The thing that usually breaks on my refrigerators is the plastic shelves. They just don't seem designed to last more than 4 or 5 years at the most. I'm not sure how to filter for "has shelves that don't decompose when kept cool."
- lotsofpulp 3y agoI have never seen or heard of that happening. Are they being overloaded?
- troupe 3y agoI don't think so. Just a typically loaded fridge. The shelfs have metal arms and then plastic holding the glass to the metal. Structurally the weight is on the plastic though and the plastic breaks. This is on a 12 year old LG refrigerator that works just fine on staying cool.
- secabeen 3y agoInteresting, all the fridges I've seen have glass shelves, and usually metal framing/brackets. The drawers are plastic, and eventually do go, but replacements are available.
- zo1 3y agoI've never seen fridge plastic decompose. What are you doing to those materials that makes them do that? I've never in my entire life's existence seen plastic inside a fridge that has "decomposed". I've just seen them get grey/cloudy over time if they're clear-plastic, and maybe crack. Besides that, indestructible.
- troupe 3y agoThe white plastic just stops being able to hold the glass shelves to the metal brackets and chips/cracks until it can no longer hold weight. This is a 12 year old LG refrigerator. Decompose is probably not the right word, but it loses whatever property makes plastic usually last a long time.