I looked into fixing it and it’ll cost almost $300. I refuse to spend any money to fix a stupid Samsung. So, my wife wants a new refrigerator made by an actual reputable appliance company, but I don’t want to spend $3000. So we just live without ice, and I anticipate this will be our life until the refrigerator stops working completely.
Ask the guy who owns a local coin laundry mat where the best place is to purchase used appliances.
I’ll bet there is one in your town less than 2 miles away from a tire store / center. It always seems that way no matter the town.
Does it freeze over? (I ask because I have a Samsung that freezes over because they didn’t seal the compartment correctly during manufacturing.)
It’s frozen shut, but no ice is escaping the box. No ice comes out of the box either. It’s a solid block of ice in there for all I know.
There is no universe in which you have to pay $3000 for a new refrigerator. Not even a full size French door ice-and-water-on-the-door arrangement.
Don’t buy appliances from the big box hardware stores or Best Buy. Just don’t. These guys sell at full MSRP/list price all day, every day. I don’t care what their advertising says, you are not getting a “deal” there. Your town probably has an independent appliance dealer. Find it, and buy from them.
And yes, don’t replace your Samsung with another Samsung. Their appliances are consistently awful. LG or Whirlpool (or any of Whirlpool’s myriad sub brands) are probably your best bet for non-premium options.
I’ve had trouble with LG and despite their reported reliability I read that LG is one of the two top brands for refrigerators that can’t hold temperature in a year or two (Samsung was the other). Samsung is the absolute shittiest appliance brand. The previous owner went all Samsung and every appliance has some problem and we’ve already replaced most of them.
Someone else suggested Habitat for Humanity stores, so I’m going to try to find one of those when the time comes. Thanks for the advice though, that’ll be our second option.
I make ice in a tray then bag it. Easy and free
They’ll probably make that illegal soon.
You’ll buy Nestle Ice and you’ll like it.
Children died to make that ice! And you just let it melt!?!
Not sure who needs to know but;
In or around most major cities there are Habitat for Humanity and wholesale resell stores. Either one is a great source for cheap appliances. H4H helps to support a good cause with great deals on things and wholesale resell places are just a great deal for new stuff that retailers couldn’t sell but wanted to get rid of.
You will have to do some searching for the wholesale resell places, but when you find one it can be a gold mine for the thrifty that doesn’t want used stuff. New snowblowers, lawnmowers, big and small home appliances, tools, and various other things can be had for a fraction of their MSRP.
I do be loving my sturdy wooden dresser!
Amazing! Thanks for the LPT!
I have a GE Opal Nugget ice maker, and it is wonderful! It sits on the counter, and takes up a lot of space, and we go through a lot of distilled water… but the ice is always perfect!
My wife bought a water distiller a few months ago for her clothes steamer, or something, I’m not really sure what she uses it for. Lol. But she fills it with a gallon of water and has a gallon of distilled water sometime later. You guys could probably benefit from that.
So we just live without ice
Does it come with a freezer? As dull as trays sound.
Lol, idk why neither of us considered that. I guess because we rarely use ice anyways. Neither of us are fans of ice in our drinks. The only time I wish we had it is when I need to fill an ice chest.
You’re thinking about buying a new fridge because the feature you don’t use is broken? K.
No, I said I’m not thinking of buying a new fridge until the whole fridge breaks. My wife wants a new fridge.
fam go to your favorite shopping site and look up “ice tray fun shapes”. You can find stars, hearts, pawprints, dongs, roses, etc.
Just buy ice at the grocery store
That’s what I do, but it’s an inconvenience, and expensive.
Cheaper than $300 for it to break again in 2 years with infrequent usage…
This is Perceived Obsolescence up against Practicing Imbecilescence.
A simple plastic tray and there you are. They rarely break and never need repairs.
LA resident living in a 1960’s apartment here and welcome to my world! I drink iced coffee so every day I’m scurrying about the kitchen with my cursed Amazon ice trays and dripping water everywhere. #YOLO
I have great success with these.
You fill the cup with water, add the lid over the sink so you catch the spill, and in the freezer it goes. Super easy to remove too.
My wife has those, but I need ice cubes so I can measure the amount of going into the coffee (I use the Japanese pour over iced coffee method with a digital scale).
This actually works?! Astounding!! The ice doesn’t just become one unbreakable block?? But how?
I’m gonna send you a pic when I’m home from work, it’ll be clear
Awesome! Thanks!
There are a few repair guys who’ve made YouTube videos and they all say about the same thing. If the icemaker is in the door, it’s going to break. And the fancier, the refrigerator is the more costly the repair. A basic GE fridge with simple ice maker in the freezer will last. Just won’t look nice
Oh that’s good to know about door ice makers. This ice maker is actually a sealed compartment in the refrigerator, but it is supposed to dispense from the outside of the door. It has never worked since we got it. I tried to defrost it so I can open it and inspect it, but it beeped every 10 seconds for 15 minutes, and we eventually decided it was too aggravating to continue. Whoever made the decision to make it constantly beep while defrosting is an asshole.
That’s part of what they were getting at. Anytime you want to freeze something, it should be in the freezer. Attempting to over engineer a hack to put it in a warmer space sets it up to fail.
I’ll certainly remember that when it’s time to replace this one. Thank you. Hopefully that time is far away, because I don’t want to spend thousands of dollars when I don’t have to. I refuse to replace it with something equally shitty, so its replacement will be expensive.
FWIW so is ours in our Fisher & Paykel 😭💙
Every Samsung ice maker is broken welcome to their garbage.
Yeah, that’s why I decided not to waste any time or money fixing it. It came with the house. The dishwasher was also Samsung, and we already replaced that because it didn’t clean the dishes. They’re a bad company.
They may make some really bad ones, but the ice maker that lurks inside my Samsung fridge’s drawer freezer has been solid so far, despite my best attempts to break it by using the ice bin for food storage.
Samsung TV, awesome.
Samsung home appliances, absolute wet dog shit.
Nah, their TVs are overpriced crap. They used to be high quality. But their screens are nowhere near the best anymore. And the dog shit software they shove down your throat isn’t worth it, even if they were the best.
Samsung has Apple envy in the worst way, and are in a race to the bottom of the barrel through enshitification
Samsung TVs spy on you and serve you ads. I think Samsung monitors are okay, although I’m not a fan of their overly saturated color palette.
If it connects to the internet, it spies on you.
Get their oled.
We have an LG OLED. We felt like it more accurately reproduces colors, plus it’s like 1/2" thick, which is just amazing. It looks nice on the entertainment center, and the picture quality is outstanding.
