LG 635L Side by Side Fridge GS-L600 Series

What a fridge/freezer! I love it. Had it for six weeks and it is doing exactly what it is supposed to. This replaced a similar plumbed 900mm-wide LG that was (well) over 15 years old (came with the house). I would never have bought a plumbed fridge but I couldn't live without it now. After my one cup of tea in the morning I have iced water all day (in TAS). We paid $1992 in September 2025 (got Appliances Online to match a JBHiFi price) and got the stainless steel to match our other appliances (all Bosch).

At 635L the interior of this fridge seems huge. I have two half hams of 6kg each plus the perishables from neighbours who were going away and there is still plenty of room. The shelves in the doors are almost twice as deep as the old fridge meaning you can fit plenty of tall bottles, and on the freezer side I am no longer worrying that I will break the plastic when the bagged meat gets wedged in when it freezes. The 2L milk used to be a snug fit but now it rattles around, I have ballasted it with the butter to keep the milk upright. Likewise I have a few bottles of tonic that I don't need cold but they stop the other tall bottles from falling over. We have put two baskets on the top shelf for cheese and similar smaller items to make the most of the generous shelf height. Might upgrade these to plastic containers with lids because there are no closed-in spaces in the fridge other than the two vege drawers (the old fridge had a specific cheese drawer hung under the top shelf that was really handy, and a lid on the top shelf of the door where I keep garlic, ginger, and suchlike). I put those things in small plastic boxes now.

The freezer is what you would expect with two large drawers at the bottom (one slightly smaller to accommodate the motor). Our freezer used to be packed whereas now there is plenty of room, even after he won the local meat tray last night (and the veggie tray but he gave that back because we won it last week). The whole thing fridge really solid, and it is a *lot* quieter than the old fridge. The stainless steel finish (can't speak for the black) is excellent, leaving no finger marks on the surface. The shelves are made of glass (my partner dropped one and nearly had a heart attack). I have calculated (using Aurora+) that the fridge is saving us over $0.30 per day in electricity, and that was before we changed the fridge to 4 degrees C (rather than 3) and the freezer to -17 (rather than -18) degrees C because some of the veges in the bottom drawer of the fridge were freezing.

The ice maker takes up relatively little room because it is smaller than the old fridge, but it makes ice fast enough to keep up with me. Some complain that the crushed ice dispenser is a little generous with where the ice goes (potentially all over the place); you can always use a little jug or similar with a wider lip to catch the ice, but I live with the collateral. The fridge comes with a water filter and you can fit it to the plumbed water supply at the back. I have an inline filter in my pantry and so I will continue to change the filter there so I don't have to pull the fridge out (but it is not difficult to roll out and back). Fridge filters are a mystery, I have to remember how to do it each time, but that is not a criticism of this fridge because our filter is independent.

One downside: the doors open in such a way that it takes up a lot more room when the door is open than the advertised width of the fridge. The bottom drawer of both the fridge and freezer are full-depth and require the door(s) to be wide open (at least 170 degrees) before you can pull the drawer out. This would be an issue if you have a built-in space tight around the fridge and the fridge was fully recessed. The solution would be to have the fridge pulled out slightly (the door-depth or about 10cm clear of the surrounding enclosure) or to make the enclosure bigger. Our neighbours had to do the latter when they got a similar LG fridge five years ago.

I haven't tried the app yet because it needs access to the 2.4Ghz signal and that means telling our wifi to temporarily broadcast in 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz so that we can set the fridge (and new Bosch series 4 dishwasher) up. Haven't got around to it yet but I am not sure that I would want to change the fridge settings often (the stats might be interesting). The delivery guys had to use our front gate to get the fridge through (the back gate was too narrow), although it could have been taken off the dolly and manually shuffled through sideways.

I loved everything about our old fridge but the plumbed water started coming out of the freezer door (rather than the water dispenser) and so it was on its way out after what I would guess was 20 years. We had it repaired twice. I am thrilled to have got a new one so similar and so much bigger inside (the outside footprint is more or less the same except for the increased space needed to open the doors). I would really recommend this but pay attention to the space comments.