I have wood paneling on the refrigerator (it was there when I moved in). I'd like a stainless steel frig. There is nothing wrong with the current frig.
Is it worth replacing the wood paneling with stainless steel paneling? Is that even possible?
How to replace refrigerator paneling with stainless
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The cabinet isn't helping it cool any (and is almost certainly less ventilation space than the manufacturer requires), but the freezer really can't have much effect, being on the other side of the cabinet.
The stove on the other side gets far hotter than the outside of the freezer does - so why wasn't that blamed? Presumably because you added the chest freezer to an extant rental kitchen, and the landlord wants to stick you for price of the new refrigerator?
You are not, however, doing your chest freezer any favors if it was right next to the wood - most chest freezers have the coils running under the skin and also have a manufacturer-recommended minimum ventilation space around them.
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Typically wood panels are installed as part of the cabinetry, the fridge panel is installed at the same time as the kitchen cabinets.
There is a removable edge at the door that is used to install and remove the panel. Once that is removed the panel slides out from one side. The replacement SS panel will go in the same groove that held the wood panel. The edge of the wood panel that went into the groove is usually 1/4" thick, so to add a metal panel in its place a backer of corrugated cardboard needs to be added in the back of the SS panel to keep it from moving excessively.