We couldn't get it through the kitchen doorway while it was still in the box, so we cut the box open in sections with a box cutter until it was free. Most fridges are simply too big, but this one fit in the elevator and our apartment's main entrance easily with a few inches to spare. We chose this fridge in part because it is actually slim enough to fit through the elevator door, the entrance to our apartment, and the kitchen doorway. Our building's maintenance man helped us bring the fridge up to the sixth floor in the elevator on a large dolly cart. Getting a new fridge into a small New York City apartment is never easy, but the process went as smoothly as can be expected.
You will need a Philips screwdriver and an 8-millimeter socket wrench to do the job.
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The door is reversible, meaning you can install it so that it opens to the left instead of the right if need be. It requires just 33 inches of space to fit through a doorway for installation. The fridge is tall at about 70 inches in height and slim at 31-inches wide, so it can fit in small kitchens. The freezer has two compartments so you can store larger items in the bottom drawer and smaller ones in the top. If you primarily use fresh foods and don't look in your freezer too often, this is an ideal setup, as the foods you use most frequently are located right at eye level and easily in reach. The freezer is located at the bottom instead of the top. Here are the specs for the HRB171N6ASE model. However, you can find slightly larger 17.2 cubic-foot models available in the same design. I tested the 17.1 cubic-foot Bottom-Freezer Refrigerator (HBM17158SS) model, which is currently out of stock. Hisense makes several bottom-freezer fridge models. Now that we've used this Hisense refrigerator every day for about half a year, I've pulled together our impressions of the brand's fridges. They look sleek and modern with their stainless steel finishes (especially when compared to our old dingy white one with its '70s-inspired faux wooden handle).They're relatively affordable for the size and quality.They have the freezer at the bottom instead of the top, which is a design I've always liked for its convenience.They have a decent 17.2-cubic-foot capacity, on average.Most models are small enough to fit through the narrow doorway into our tiny New York City kitchen (as well as all the other doorways it had to pass through along the way).So after years of lusting after shiny new stainless steel fridges, we finally got one from Hisense. We cook a lot, and were getting increasingly frustrated by the lack of storage space in our old fridge, having to kneel down to get potatoes, and never being able to find that sauce we were looking for in all that clutter. It was too small, made by some company I've never heard of, did not adequately cool things, and was likely at least 20 years old.
I've hated the fridge in my apartment ever since my partner and I moved in nearly three years ago.