Fridge ruined in Colorado Fire Evacuation

We were evacuated for 13 days, and returned to our home standing just as we left it!, However, food rotted from the power being out for 2 weeks and the tummy turning stench cannot be removed. We should have $1k to spend from insurance but I want to get a fatwallet price on the nicest one we can get.

thank you for any suggestions, I would be thrilled to use a sale price and use coupon code and CashBack all at once!

Kathy near fort collins colorado

Well its a holiday week, 4th of July, so HD, Lowes, and Sears all should have some on sale.

HD and Lowes both accept Lowes 10% moving coupon.

There seems to be different methods for getting out smell from a refrigerator, have you exhausted all possibilities? Seems cheaper than a new fridge.

Does your electric company also give you an allowance to replace the food since your power was out for so long? In New York, Con Ed gives us $150 if the power is out for more than a few days.

henry33 said:   JamesTKirk said:   There seems to be different methods for getting out smell from a refrigerator, have you exhausted all possibilities? Seems cheaper than a new fridge.

It can be done, but it's serious cleaning and usually various parts have to be taken apart to get at all the stuff that's probably sitting behind various pieces of plastic.

Baking soda and/or bleach along with some elbow grease. I find that easier than buying a new one unless you're looking to upgrade anyway.

the family handyman suggests using newspaper and charcoal, several times over a period of a few days.

I'd go get a Lowes movers coupon and hit Lowes and home depo+ and Sears, asap before any floor models/clearances are sold.
Craigslist? (chance you're getting someone else's stinky fridge), and those could be picked over by now as well.
That appliance store, College and 50th(?) south had decent prices, but I never bought from them, but I was never in a hurry. The appliance store in old town usually had higher prices, sometimes fancier models; not very FW-ish.

An alternative is to get the cheapest piece of junk (craigslist) that runs, then within the next 6 months, shop at your (relative) leisure.
Best of luck.

Thank you all for the great responses!

We have a Samsung RF263 arriving tomorrow from Sears, $1750 -5% using Sears CC and $70 delivery. Not a killer deal.....but I think we did ok considering the circumstances. My insurance company authorized $60 for a dorm fridge (could not serve babys formula from stinky one) to get us by for the last week and it has done its job

I will also look into the energy star rebate for sure.

We tried baking soda, activated charcoal, bleach, and airing out in between all the former and the stench would relent for awhile, but everytime we

Thank you all again )