We shipped over some Kitchenaid appliances over from the States, including a fridge, dishwasher, range, microwave, wine fridge, kitchen faucets.
it’s been a nightmare installing these appliances in our condo in taiwan. all the hoses dont fit, including water and gas.
just want to see if anybody with experience installing american appliances back in the states and might be available to drop by to lend us a hand.
thanks
sounds like you will need some imperial to metric pipe adapters, should be able to find them at your local B and Q
Thanks Shaun, unfortunately, it’s not that simple. I need someone with experience with American appliance installations to take a look. I’ve been to most of the local hardware stores, they just don’t carry the sizes we need. and besides the sizing the pipes coming out of the wall need some customization in addition to the hose adapters.
I feel for you … you need to get that wine fridge operating as a matter of urgency 
yea…room temperature wine until i settle this. madness
Everything here’s metric. If it’s imperial make sure of it, also inch in Taiwan is different than imperial inch. Taiwan inch is 3cm long while imperial inch is 2.54cm long… big difference.
Your best bet is replace the hose/fittings with what you can buy in Taiwan.
If you have the money to move your American appliance here (it is expensive to do so, like more than 10,000 dollars, usually the company that hires you here pays that for you) it probably won’t be hard for you to pay a handyman locally to do this for you. Look for any mom and pop appliance stores.
Also one more thing, the gas they use here in Taiwan is different than the gas in the US, you have to know whether or not you’re using LPG canisters or natural gas because they burn differently, so if the mixture isn’t right the stove won’t work right. I seen an expat’s gas stove burn too low (as in you could barely boil water on it) because of this.
Plumbing fittings should be similar to the states if they are using NPT fittings. I know air compressor fittings in Taiwan is the same as the states.
Not sure if this is the OPs case, but it actually makes sense to ship that stuff over as it’s much cheaper in the us(or Europe) than in Taiwan if you can get it tax free in to Taiwan.
When I moved here I also had a shit load of stuff sent over with sea freight and declared it as my personal possessions(or something to that affect)
I wouldn’t do the above of course for some temporary assignment to tw, but if you are moving here and perhaps renovating …
What’s the cost to do a sea freight? I couldn’t even find a price guide as to how much say a full container would cost because all they have is “email for quote” (meaning it’s probably so expensive that I am better off not doing it)
I don’t see how you save any money when you would pay probably over 10,000 US for it, you could buy all that appliance here in Taiwan for that cost.
This is a stab in the dark
Whirlpool 惠而浦
No. 277, Wuquan South Road, South District, Taichung City, 402
https://maps.app.goo.gl/UqMjg
Switch to whisky for a while. It’s cheap here.
It would be around 3000usd for 20 foot container.
I should have added, in my case i was sending over furniture as well(i got some nice sofas etc) and there was space left in the container where i could throw in a tv, coffee maker, induction stove, etc.
well we moved all of our belongings in a half container. about 5k. appliances are much cheaper in US and we wanted kitchenaid appliances, which we couldnt even find in taiwan.
the wolf appliances are about 3x to 4x the cost of US prices. so seems like US appliances in general are just much more expensive
I wonder how is it that Western style appliance are so much more expensive in Taiwan, is it because of lack of demand for it here? I know the standard appliances here is a gas stove with 2 burners, vent hood, sink, and that’s about it. Nobody uses dishwasher here (to tell you the truth I never used it in the states either, they don’t really get the dish clean enough and all the work I need to do to make it “ready” for dishwasher it was better for me to hand wash it)
Yeah, non-shit applicances are super expensive here. I saw my tv at sogo for 98k, and I think I paid for it 35. Same for my coffee maker. I got from your for 300euros tax free(so about 10k) and in sogo it’s 48k if I remember correctly
You should probably not buy anything from Sogo because I notice everything there is marked up quite a lot. Even a brand new 9kg front loading washer that washes/dry costs 40k there, and you can buy it for like 15k elsewhere (say Costco)
Yeah, I do think your are right
These two I happened to mention though I only seen in sogo
The local electronic stores don’t really have jura coffee makers and such
Also, nobody pays 98k for a TV unless it’s OLED. Costco sells a really large 72 inch OLED TV for about 112k.
If you’re comparing Sogo prices to prices back home it’s going to be skewed because Sogo really is there for people to show off their wealth. Very few financially smart people do more than window shop there. They probably make most their money from food court than anything else.
Sure, but Costco doesn’t have exactly the same stuff as sogo. What if you want to buy eg a nice speaker, Costco doesn’t stock bang & olufsen, so you are stuck with sogo(or the b&o store)
(I doubt they got the same TVs as sogo either)
Probably a better bet.
I’m wondering where can I find one of those American style thing with 4 electric burners and an oven? Any expats selling them?