marble wrote:


On 21 Jan 2006 15:39:17 GMT, Ian Stirling
wrote:

Looking at the argos website, I find an astonishing lack of variability
in the energy use.
More money just buys you a prettier box, and more stuff.
It does not give better insulation.
I approximately halved the energy use of my freezer with several slabs
of 10cm polystyrene.
This paid itself off in the first year.

It may be that better more efficient ones are available, but not in
argos.

@root
looking at undercounter size fridges heres a bosch that uses
113kwh/year:
http://www.comet.co.uk/comet/html/cache/29_280976.html


heres a beko that uses 225 and with a slightly smaller volume, but its
capital costs is half as much, so you pays your money...
http://www.comet.co.uk/comet/html/cache/29_234230.html

Argos - order code 4856982, 20 quid more (the cheapest one without a
freezer compartment) does 168Kwh/year, maybe there are only significant
differences at the top of the market.

When the grading thing first stared I remember most fridges being B's
some even C now they are nearly all A. I'm betting my old Zanusi's
grade would be "unclassified".

Unclassified may not be bad.

I measured a ~20 year old cheap fridge, and it was about the same as a
current 'a' rated one.