Tell me about Liebherr fridges

[Radian]

That was a full-on afternoon getting the new fridge fitted! Because it's in an integrated housing the door had to be swapped over and of course all the holes were in different places. The old hinges fitted in standard big round cutouts like regular kitchen cupboards. The Liebherr has totally different style so I had to hole saw out some plugs and glue them in to fill the big old holes. Then getting the 72kg fridge in the niche was huge fun. Not least because the mains lead was too short to reach up to the socket on the wall above the kitchen units.

 

Anyway, all in and running now. Only within 10 minutes of firing it up for the first time the RCCB tripped in my CU. Don't think the fridge is to blame as resetting the trip, everything is back on and has been for a couple of hours. Bit of a mystery that.

[Radian]

Fridgy Mc. fridgeface has been impressing us with its tricks all day now. Chief among these is drawing less than 1/4 the power of the old one while still managing to chill stuff down really fast. Supercool mode is actually super cool. But the one thing that delights me the most is the interior lighting...

 

 

Not one but three areas of LEDs with columns up both sides. The cherry on the cake is it goes with my movement sensitive kitchen Lighting theme by dimming up slowly rather than switching straight on when the door is opened. Will post up some power plots after it's had a full 24h without me opening it to tweak a hinge or add a bit of trim. On that matter, the installation instructions were (as everyone likes to point out on the internet) totally crap.

Once you worked out that any picture accompanied by a giant * meant "you might not need to do this bit" it got a little bit easier but they really should have spelt this out somewhere. Other bits and pieces did need adding at times that seemed wrong, hence having to get back in and add them afterwards.

 

Thanks to everyone who contributed to our eventual decision. It was a big investment but the energy savings look like it will have been worth it. Oddly, the 2022 replacement model for this fridge has a worse annual kWh figure. The only other difference I could see is a touchscreen LCD which would not be something I'd want in a kitchen appliance expected to last over 10 years.

[Radian]

Energy data as advertised:

Energy consumption in 24h	0.242 kWh / 24h
Energy consumption per year	89 kWh/a

 

Actual consumption data for 24 hour period:

My daily kWh legend has rounded down to zero but the average of 12W over 24h makes 0.288kWh so slightly higher than their 0.242 kWh / 24h but not bad. Logging is done every 5 minutes so you only get a brief current spike, mostly averaged out, when the door is open due to the considerable led lighting. What's the betting the standard for test results are arranged to eliminate the contribution of the interior lighting.

 

The old fridge was averaging around 60W / 24h so this is going to save us £212 every year at the October price capped tariff.

[SteamyTea]

4 minutes ago, Radian said:

My daily kWh legend has rounded down to zero but the average of 12W over 24h makes 0.288kWh

About the same as my small, under the counter, fridge from Currys.

Mine cost £110.

[Radian]

9 hours ago, SteamyTea said:

About the same as my small, under the counter, fridge from Currys.

Mine cost £110.

Does it hold 300l of grub though?  😉

[SteamyTea]

2 minutes ago, Radian said:

Does it hold 300l of grub though?  😉

No, yours is at least twice the size.

 

If I had 300 lt of food in my fridge, most would be thrown away as I cannot eat that much.

[Radian]

15 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

No, yours is at least twice the size.

 

If I had 300 lt of food in my fridge, most would be thrown away as I cannot eat that much.

Mostly it's full of fruit an veg now. Can't afford meat or cheese after shelling out for it. Yes it was expensive but the one it replaced was 24 years old yet was similarly priced which is a bit mad. Like TV's always seem to cost the same.

[Ferdinand]

On 19/08/2022 at 22:41, Radian said:

Fridgy Mc. fridgeface

 

Mine's called Leigh Bear.

[AliG]

A bit late to this, but this might be useful if anyone searches Liebherr.

 

We have the Liebherr SIGN 3576 freezer and have ordered the replacement model SIFNe 5188 for my parents.

 

They seem broadly similar to Siemens equipment, but the reason for ordering this specific model is that it is the only full height freezer with an ice maker that is inside the freezer not in the door, except for the £6k column freezers made by various people. I don't really see why the column ones cost £6k versus £1.5k for this, other than advertising how much money you have. I got fed up with visitors playing with the ice maker when we had an in door one previously.

 

The plastic drawers are quite easy to break and expensive for what they are. I have had to replace one and another one is cracked.

 

It runs quietly and has caused no issues. We have the tall Siemens/Bosch fridge etc though as it is somewhat cheaper for similar performance.