Best CHiQ Fridges / Refrigerators

Sleek "cool" pocket rocket – Fantastic fridge, Surprisingly spacious, keeps food perfectly, good looking too Show details

Black 500lt Chest Freezer (New Range) – After having another band that was faulty I decided that a 3rd CHIQ product was warranted. This 500 lt chest freezer is new to the Aussie market and… Read more

the product code isn’t here yet. The freezer has good deep space, 3 baskets which makes life easier. It fits well and this seals good, love the Black look, has light inside, good size wheels for easy movement. So far loving it. Is a little noisy but as down stairs it is ok. So glad I got this, so far so good. Also CHIQ offered an extended product warranty free. Don’t let the place of purchase sell you an extended warranty until you check if CHIQ is still offering.

The Black Crunch – It’s loud at times. Kind of a crunching noise that sometimes comes from the right side, and other times the left side. It’s quite annoying. More so… Read more

because it’s a brand new fridge. Other times it just has the normal hum sound of a fridge. I worry if this noise will get worse over time. Otherwise, it operates as expected.

Inside looks good but the door storage isn’t very functional because the shelves have a narrow face which means bottles have to potential to fall off the shelf, especially when the door opens and closes. And it closes with a quick thud, which shakes all the bottles.

External aesthetics look great in my kitchen. The black is glossy and I don’t see any finger marks on the surface of the fridge - which is great.

Update: 1) Fridge wasn’t cooling in crisper. ChiQ were responsive and sent technician to fix. 2) Fridge noise became worse. CHiQ sent technician. Fridge was not repairable. CHiQ refunded the cost of the fridge and were helpful and easily accessible throughout this process.

Not a Suitable Fridge – I got this fridge as a replacement for a faulty one that I had bought 2 weeks earlier. Unfortunately there are some design faults with this fridge… Read more

that would make it unsuitable for most families. First there is not enough height between the door shelves to place a bottle or 2 litre milk container in. You have to remove one to do this. Second the smart setting set the variable side of the freezer at -7 degrees which is not cold enough to freeze anything. You have to turn the smart setting off and set the zone manually to -18 degrees if you want to use it as a freezer. Finally the door alarm can barely be heard unless you are right next to the fridge. If you are someone who has a hearing problem, like me you would not be able to hear the buzzer and would only know that the door was opened if you saw it. I cannot recommend this fridge.

And Pigs Fly – I purchased the Chiq CTM348NW5E from Appliances Online a few months ago. My two main reasons for purchasing this model was the fridge and freezer… Read more

capacity and the 5 Star Energy rating.

The good and the bad about this fridge.

It looks stylish and modern, has glass shelves and if you are into vacuum cleaners, tit sounds like a vacuum cleaner when its running. That’s it for the good, now for the bad.

5 Star Energy rating! Boy, was I wrong and disappointed. This fridge loves to run and run and run and run. This fridge runs more than my 25 year old fridge which I replaced with this Chiq fridge.

This model has an inverter compressor with is meant to be energy efficient, well for the amount of time this fridge runs each day, I have no doubt it uses more than my 25 year old fridge.

My regret is that I should have spent a little more and bought a name brand fridge with good ratings instead of buying this energy hog.

Some examples, on the day of writing this review, its low 20’s outside, the roller shutters are down most of the way and its cool inside the house. This energy efficient fridge ran for an hour, stopped running for 23 mins then ran for another 45 min, 5 Star Energy rating?

During late Winter, early morning when it was zero degrees outside and freezing inside, the fridge ran for 30 mins, stopped for 10 mins then ran for another 40 mins. 5 Star Energy rating?

Its not uncommon for this fridge to run around 40-50mins and stop for around 20 mins. 5 Star Energy rating? And pigs fly.

This Freezer heats up the room – Nearly everything else about this freezer is great. It is much wider and deeper than the previous freezer I had but only 11L more in capacity which… Read more

isn't a big deal for me. The real problem is that the room the freezer is in is now consistently 1-2 degrees C more than previously. While it was cooling itself down initially it was so hot the room, even with the air conditioner on, felt stifling. The sides were very hot to the touch. This unit has great star ratings (as a refrigerator 5 and as a freezer 4.5 stars) but if I need to use more cooling for most of the year (I live in a very hot area) then any savings on power would be lost or worse.