[perfectionist]

hi all,

this might not be the right place to ask, but you all seem to know such a lot about these things, I thought I'd ask anyway. I hope you don't mind.

We've just had the kitchen done, and one of the new things was a side-by-side fridge/freezer from Admiral (SAC224GB). I noticed straight away that the doors don't look straight - if you look from the side, they both slope inwards. Part of the frame is a bar straight across the top - since this is a single piece, it is straight, but the door edges just below go in about 5-6mm near the centre. If you laid the thing down on its front so the handles dug into the ground and pushed the doors in a little, this is the deformation you would see.

Anyway, I thought it looked odd, so we called the Maytag engineer (I think Admiral and Maytag are related?). He looked at it, and said it's perfectly normal, and it'll probably look better after about 6 months.

Can that really be true? I looked at a lot these in the showrooms this weekend, and (except for the ones where the doors had obviously been messed up by the shopkeepers), all the doors were perfectly parallel with the frames.

Anyone else seen this? It is really normal? Am I just being a perfectionist ?

thanks for any feedback...

Reg

[PS Staff - Sheila]

Can you please verify your model?

It should be on the inside of the fridge section on a tag with the serial number.

I would ask for a second opinion.

Did they have to take the doors of when they brought it in your home.

It is possible that they are not adjusted right.

[perfectionist]

hi Sheila, thanks for getting back to me.

I checked and the part number is GC2224GEKB.

I'm pretty sure the unit was fully assembled when it was delivered.

We called the engineer in the first place because we thought maybe they'd just been fitted badly - but he's quite sure they are normal. It just seems very odd to me that they'd have doors that looked pushed-in by design... I'm looking for confirmation that this is a fault, really.

Anyone else ever seen anything like it?

thanks again
Reg