It started with not having any room in the freezer. Looking at the picture, you'd think there would be plenty of space. There wasn't. I ended up buying an upright freezer to make up for how shockingly little my Samsung holds.
This was never my first choice for a refrigerator. It wasn't even in my top 10, but at the time I was looking and had to buy a fridge, it was the only one on sale.
As I lived with the damn thing, another issue soon made itself known. The ice maker is the worst. The ice continually fuses into a solid block of cubes. Apparently, this is a known Samsung problem if you listen to all the repair guys who've come out to try and fix it. Also if you read reviews or talk to people who own one, you'll hear the same story. The ice maker is a problem.
We had one repairman suggest we take the ice maker out once a month and empty it. Even once a month isn't enough before it fuses solid. This is not fun to deal with.
And then it got worse.
It started leaking water into the refrigerator itself. It would pool in the pantry drawer. It would gather behind the pantry drawer and seep forward, toward the door. Toward my wood floor.
I tried changing the filter and that seemed to work. For two days. Then the leak was back. The serviceman came out and clipped a couple of things and said to let it defrost for two days. As in open the doors wide, including the freezer, and let it thaw out.
Oookay. The freezer wasn't an issue because there was room for everything in the upright freezer I already bought, but what was I supposed to do with everything in the fridge?
The only option I could come up with was to buy a mini fridge. I finally found one that was 4.4 cubic feet and could be delivered without a shipping charge. It arrived last Tuesday and we transferred everything over on Wednesday night. Or everything we could squeeze into the mini fridge. Space was tight and we left things like fruits and vegetables out because there wasn't any room for them.
And every time I walk into my kitchen and see the doors open on the fridge, all I could keep thinking is how much I hadn't liked this model to begin with and how I like it less and less all the time.
Keep your fingers crossed that this works because I don't want to have to pay for another service call if it doesn't.
