We pseudo-enter the world of ersatz glamour!
A few weeks back the Colonel and I were rummaging around Second Use Building Building Materials (one of our regular haunts) when we spotted a Sub-Zero refrigerator.
The Colonel fell in love with it, which mystified me: I always thought he was strictly a side-by-side man, but he just thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. The side-by-side had always annoyed me (they are impossible to store hors d' oeuvre platters in!) so I was happy to go along with his enthusiam. Since it was only $50, and "needed work" it was something of a crap shoot, but we went ahead and loaded it into Sven anyway.
When we got home, we wrestled it out of Sven and into the garage, where the Colonel engaged in one of his deep-cleaning sprees. (The colonel loves to deep-clean) while I looked it up on the internet. It dated back to 1986, which is not exactly my vintage, but hey - I had visions of those hors d'oeuvre platters in my head.
It froze stuff nicely in the freezer, but was rather warmish in the fridge, so we called a service guy. He tinked and spritzed and loaded it with some new coolant, and $300 later, we had a fully functioning refrigerator on our hands!
We moved it into the kitchen last night, which was a major accomplishment. It's not only huge, it's quite heavy, but now it is fully loaded with food, and is so far working very well - except for the ice maker, but we think that's just an electrical thing, which can be easily fixed on our end.
So here it is. It's quite huge, but I think it's also quite handsome. Sub-Zeros, even old ones, are quite glamourous, so that makes us feel pretty.
The Colonel fell in love with it, which mystified me: I always thought he was strictly a side-by-side man, but he just thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. The side-by-side had always annoyed me (they are impossible to store hors d' oeuvre platters in!) so I was happy to go along with his enthusiam. Since it was only $50, and "needed work" it was something of a crap shoot, but we went ahead and loaded it into Sven anyway.
When we got home, we wrestled it out of Sven and into the garage, where the Colonel engaged in one of his deep-cleaning sprees. (The colonel loves to deep-clean) while I looked it up on the internet. It dated back to 1986, which is not exactly my vintage, but hey - I had visions of those hors d'oeuvre platters in my head.
It froze stuff nicely in the freezer, but was rather warmish in the fridge, so we called a service guy. He tinked and spritzed and loaded it with some new coolant, and $300 later, we had a fully functioning refrigerator on our hands!
We moved it into the kitchen last night, which was a major accomplishment. It's not only huge, it's quite heavy, but now it is fully loaded with food, and is so far working very well - except for the ice maker, but we think that's just an electrical thing, which can be easily fixed on our end.
So here it is. It's quite huge, but I think it's also quite handsome. Sub-Zeros, even old ones, are quite glamourous, so that makes us feel pretty.
posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay @ Friday, August 18, 2006
1 Comments:
At 11:32 PM,
Anonymous said…
$50 for a sub zero? are you sure that you're not confusing that with the tip you left that trick you picked up in the alley next to the cuff..........? hell, do they even allow those in beacon hill?
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