Residence refrigerator

jrstout89 wrote:
Will be upgrading our fifth wheel in about a year for going full time. Quick question, what is the upside to residential fridges? I've been using a small 2-way for 8 years now with no problems. We went to an rv show last month and there were a lot of larger 2-way frigdes in the models we were looking at. Plenty of space for the Wife and I. So why a residential, I'd like to know before I buy next year. Thanks.

We just bought a new rig and I decided to go with the two way fridge as I thought of the few times we’ve overnighted without hookups where it’s been nice to run the refrigerator on propane. Well after a few months of dealing with cooling issues with our Norcold 2118 I’m regretting that decision. Our 2118 is a piece of junk. Out of the gate we’ve had nothing but issues keeping food at safe temps. Norcold support and our dealer have been useless at fixing the issue. I went over the entire installation to make sure it was installed according to specs and Cardinal did it right, but still no luck getting it to cool properly until I added more fans to improve air circulation behind the refrigerator. A friend has the exact same trailer and has no issues. I guesss it’s just my bad luck as the Dometic in my last trailer failed. If I had to do it again I’d go residential and be done with it.