My Daewoo fridge has weedy plastic shelves. After three years of
normal use, ie filling the fridge up with food, they have fallen to
bits. New ones cost £26 a piece (not a set, each!). I don't see the
point of buying more rubbish ones so i think I should replace with
glass. Can anyone tell me where I could get some toughened glass cut
with nice rounded edges suitable for this job?

Cheers,

John

"aboleth" wrote in message
oups.com...
My Daewoo fridge has weedy plastic shelves. After three years of
normal use, ie filling the fridge up with food, they have fallen to
bits. New ones cost £26 a piece (not a set, each!). I don't see the
point of buying more rubbish ones so i think I should replace with
glass. Can anyone tell me where I could get some toughened glass cut
with nice rounded edges suitable for this job?

Cheers,

John


A glass erchant should be able to do this for you. look in EYP for your
nearest one.

Bob

On 25 Feb 2007 12:48:15 -0800, "aboleth" wrote:

My Daewoo fridge has weedy plastic shelves. After three years of
normal use, ie filling the fridge up with food, they have fallen to
bits. New ones cost £26 a piece (not a set, each!). I don't see the
point of buying more rubbish ones so i think I should replace with
glass. Can anyone tell me where I could get some toughened glass cut
with nice rounded edges suitable for this job?

I needed new windows making for the sides of a landrover. I tried a
local indy glass and window shop.
They are around 18x12 inches with rounded corners and it cost me
around £8 each to get toughened windows cut, and took them a few days
to do it.

You will want to take them a template or the exact measurements

In message .com,
aboleth writes
My Daewoo fridge has weedy plastic shelves. After three years of
normal use, ie filling the fridge up with food, they have fallen to
bits. New ones cost £26 a piece (not a set, each!). I don't see the
point of buying more rubbish ones so i think I should replace with
glass. Can anyone tell me where I could get some toughened glass cut
with nice rounded edges suitable for this job?

Why not use a brain cell and ask a glass merchant ?


--
geoff

In article .com,
"aboleth" writes:
My Daewoo fridge has weedy plastic shelves. After three years of
normal use, ie filling the fridge up with food, they have fallen to
bits. New ones cost £26 a piece (not a set, each!). I don't see the
point of buying more rubbish ones so i think I should replace with
glass. Can anyone tell me where I could get some toughened glass cut
with nice rounded edges suitable for this job?

Bear in mind that the glass will prevent a free flow of air,
and this might stop the fridge working properly. Symptoms
would be similar to an overloaded fridge, i.e. some bits too
cold/freezing, other bits to warm.

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

On 25 Feb 2007 22:24:11 GMT, (Andrew
Gabriel) mused:

In article .com,
"aboleth" writes:
My Daewoo fridge has weedy plastic shelves. After three years of
normal use, ie filling the fridge up with food, they have fallen to
bits. New ones cost £26 a piece (not a set, each!). I don't see the
point of buying more rubbish ones so i think I should replace with
glass. Can anyone tell me where I could get some toughened glass cut
with nice rounded edges suitable for this job?

Bear in mind that the glass will prevent a free flow of air,
and this might stop the fridge working properly. Symptoms
would be similar to an overloaded fridge, i.e. some bits too
cold/freezing, other bits to warm.

Depends how the fridge is designed, many have glass shelves now but
once the door is closed the air has a lmited space to move in anyway
so only really has one place to go, and if it can't go through a shelf
it will soon go around it.
--
Regards,
Stuart.

On Feb 26, 11:24 am, (Andrew Gabriel)
wrote:
In article .com,
"aboleth" writes:

My Daewoo fridge has weedy plastic shelves. After three years of
normal use, ie filling the fridge up with food, they have fallen to
bits. New ones cost £26 a piece (not a set, each!). I don't see the
point of buying more rubbish ones so i think I should replace with
glass. Can anyone tell me where I could get some toughened glass cut
with nice rounded edges suitable for this job?

Bear in mind that the glass will prevent a free flow of air,
and this might stop the fridge working properly. Symptoms
would be similar to an overloaded fridge, i.e. some bits too
cold/freezing, other bits to warm.

Surely the plastic shelves would obstruct air the same as glass.
My Sharp fridge has plastic shelves that have broken. I was thinking
about getting wire shelves instead.

In article om,
"Matty F" writes:
On Feb 26, 11:24 am, (Andrew Gabriel)
wrote:
In article .com,
"aboleth" writes:

My Daewoo fridge has weedy plastic shelves. After three years of
normal use, ie filling the fridge up with food, they have fallen to
bits. New ones cost £26 a piece (not a set, each!). I don't see the
point of buying more rubbish ones so i think I should replace with
glass. Can anyone tell me where I could get some toughened glass cut
with nice rounded edges suitable for this job?

Bear in mind that the glass will prevent a free flow of air,
and this might stop the fridge working properly. Symptoms
would be similar to an overloaded fridge, i.e. some bits too
cold/freezing, other bits to warm.

Surely the plastic shelves would obstruct air the same as glass.

Depends how solid the plastic ones are. My parents have a Bosch
(I think) with glass shelves, but there's a big gap down the back
and front to allow air circulation. Compare that with my wire shelf
fridge with bigger shelves, because it doesn't have to lose shelf
area to allow air circulation. I don't know what the OP's plastic
shelves are like, but I was imagining something which allowed air
to pass through.

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

On Feb 26, 7:45 am, (Andrew Gabriel)
wrote:
In article om,
"Matty F" writes:



On Feb 26, 11:24 am, (Andrew Gabriel)
wrote:
In article .com,
"aboleth" writes:

My Daewoo fridge has weedy plastic shelves. After three years of
normal use, ie filling the fridge up with food, they have fallen to
bits. New ones cost £26 a piece (not a set, each!). I don't see the
point of buying more rubbish ones so i think I should replace with
glass. Can anyone tell me where I could get some toughened glass cut
with nice rounded edges suitable for this job?

Bear in mind that the glass will prevent a free flow of air,
and this might stop the fridge working properly. Symptoms
would be similar to an overloaded fridge, i.e. some bits too
cold/freezing, other bits to warm.

Surely the plastic shelves would obstruct air the same as glass.

Depends how solid the plastic ones are. My parents have a Bosch
(I think) with glass shelves, but there's a big gap down the back
and front to allow air circulation. Compare that with my wire shelf
fridge with bigger shelves, because it doesn't have to lose shelf
area to allow air circulation. I don't know what the OP's plastic
shelves are like, but I was imagining something which allowed air
to pass through.

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

I take the point about air circulation, but the current shelves are
pretty much flat and have no gaps. They do however have a channel to
collect run-off, which I will not be able to replace. I'd prefer to
get wire shelves, but have assumed that glass would be easier to have
cut to fit.

Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article .com,
"aboleth" writes:
My Daewoo fridge has weedy plastic shelves. After three years of
normal use, ie filling the fridge up with food, they have fallen to
bits. New ones cost £26 a piece (not a set, each!). I don't see the
point of buying more rubbish ones so i think I should replace with
glass. Can anyone tell me where I could get some toughened glass cut
with nice rounded edges suitable for this job?

Bear in mind that the glass will prevent a free flow of air,
and this might stop the fridge working properly. Symptoms
would be similar to an overloaded fridge, i.e. some bits too
cold/freezing, other bits to warm.

That's what we thought when we wanted a new fridge a year or so
ago, and they all seemed to have glass shelves. None of them
seemed compelling, so we took one of the wire shelves from our
old fridge to Comet and Currys, and bought one that the shelf
fitted.

On 26 Feb, 18:44, Joe wrote:
Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article .com,
"aboleth" writes:
My Daewoo fridge has weedy plastic shelves. After three years of
normal use, ie filling the fridge up with food, they have fallen to
bits. New ones cost £26 a piece (not a set, each!). I don't see the
point of buying more rubbish ones so i think I should replace with
glass. Can anyone tell me where I could get some toughened glass cut
with nice rounded edges suitable for this job?

Bear in mind that the glass will prevent a free flow of air,
and this might stop the fridge working properly. Symptoms
would be similar to an overloaded fridge, i.e. some bits too
cold/freezing, other bits to warm.

That's what we thought when we wanted a new fridge a year or so
ago, and they all seemed to have glass shelves. None of them
seemed compelling, so we took one of the wire shelves from our
old fridge to Comet and Currys, and bought one that the shelf
fitted.

I hit on another idea. An old fridge was being thrown out up the road,
so I took the shelves out of it. Good quality glass, fit OK, problem
solved.