Bottom-freezer refrigerators: what 1353 certified models measure

What this page measures#

Every number below comes from fw_models certified registries: 1353 catalogued bottom-freezer refrigerators from 126 brands.

A certified-product listing is a manufacturer filing, so this is a census of what is CERTIFIED — not of what is on sale, not of what is installed, and not of every brand on the market. Read each row as "of the 1353 bottom-freezer refrigerators in this corpus", never as "of all bottom-freezer refrigerators". Each row states its own count, because not every listing fills in every field. Method: /methodology.

The short answer for bottom-freezer refrigerators#

Across the 1353 bottom-freezer refrigerators catalogued here, the middle listing is 33.1 inches wide and 70 inches tall, holds 20.1 cubic feet of total volume, and is rated at 562 kilowatt-hours a year. Those medians are the useful figures because each one belongs to a real listing rather than to an average of listings. The spread around them is wide: widths run from 20 to 65.6 inches, heights from 23.8 to 84.5, and total volume from 8 to 31.7 cubic feet. All five specs in the table are stated by every one of the 1353 models, so no row here is thinner than another. Read the numbers as a description of this catalogue of certified filings, not of what is on a showroom floor.

How bottom-freezer refrigerators measure#

Lowest, middle and highest value stated by the bottom-freezer refrigerators in this corpus. The middle value is a median, so a real listing holds it.

Every row above is a claim about one corpus — fw_models certified registries: 1353 catalogued bottom-freezer refrigerators from 126 brands (a certified-product census is not a census of units in service, and not every brand on the market is certified). Not every listing fills in every field, so the "Models stating it" and "Brands" columns are that ROW's own denominators: they count the models that state THAT spec, never the corpus total. Method: /methodology.

How to use these numbers#

A median and a range answer two different questions, and confusing them is the usual way a spec table misleads. The median tells you what to expect from a listing picked at random out of this corpus; the range tells you what the corpus is capable of containing. When you are measuring a kitchen opening, only the range matters, because the model you are actually considering may sit at either end of it.

The width row shows why. A median of 33.1 inches is a useful mental default, but the corpus reaches 65.6 inches at the top — those are the side-by-side-width cabinets in a bottom-freezer configuration, and no amount of median-thinking prepares an opening for one. The same asymmetry runs through height, where 84.5 inches at the top will not clear the soffit in a kitchen built around the 70-inch median. Measure the opening, then check the specific listing against it; never plan an opening from a median.

Adjusted volume and total volume are not interchangeable, though they sit next to each other. Total volume is the physical interior; adjusted volume weights freezer space more heavily, which is why the adjusted figures run higher — a median of 25 against 20.1, and a ceiling of 39.5 against 31.7. Comparing one model's adjusted volume against another's total volume produces a difference that is entirely an artefact of the two definitions.

A sparse row would need extra care, but this table has none: every spec is stated by all 1353 models, so each row rests on the whole corpus. Where a row does show fewer models stating a spec, the median moves from describing the corpus to describing only the listings that filled that field in, and a narrow subset can sit systematically high or low for reasons the number itself never reveals.

Frequently asked questions#

What size are bottom-freezer refrigerators?#

In this corpus of 1353 catalogued models, the middle listing is 33.1 inches wide and 70 inches tall. The full spread runs from 20 to 65.6 inches wide and 23.8 to 84.5 inches tall, so a single typical size does not describe the category well. Take the range to your opening rather than the median.

How much do bottom-freezer refrigerators hold?#

Total volume runs from 8 to 31.7 cubic feet across these 1353 models, with a median of 20.1. Adjusted volume, which weights freezer capacity differently, spans 8.4 to 39.5 with a median of 25. Both are stated by every listing in the corpus.

Do bottom-freezer refrigerators vary much between brands?#

The 1353 models come from 126 brands, and the ranges above are wide enough that variation clearly exists — but this data cannot attribute it. The table records what the corpus as a whole states, spec by spec, and holds nothing that would let one brand be separated from another.

What is a typical width for bottom-freezer refrigerators?#

The median is 33.1 inches, meaning a real listing in this corpus measures exactly that. Because the range extends to 65.6 inches at the top and down to 20 at the bottom, a typical figure is a starting point for shortlisting rather than a substitute for checking the model you intend to buy.

Are bottom-freezer refrigerators more efficient than other types?#

This page cannot answer that, because it measures only one cut of the catalogue. Annual energy use across these 1353 models runs from 200 to 785 kilowatt-hours a year with a median of 562, but a comparison against another configuration would need that configuration's own corpus alongside this one, and a like-for-like adjustment for capacity — a larger cabinet uses more energy without being less efficient.