I have same issue so I will be interested to hear answers.

Is your contractor an experienced appliance maintenance guys also? While what he says "may" be true.... it also may not be. I did have a similar issue with our fridge. Mine was not quite as tight as yours. In my case it is not jammed tight to the sides so there is a tiny space on the sides. It has been there for a few years now and no issues so far, ....but who knows if it shortens the life of the fridge. My concern in your case would be that because it is in contact with the sides, any vibration of the fridge, or noise made by the fridge with be amplified by the contact it is making with the cabinet. I accepted mine because I did have a bit of space, but I don't think I would accept yours because of how tightly it is jammed in there. Obviously someone made a mistake, and now is the time for the cabinet guy to remake a couple of cabinets and fix it... not after the counter tops are installed. Of course they are hoping you will not kick up a stink... and they can get away without the trouble of fixing the issue.

krislup, I'm curious (and will be posting a separate question...), in doing your kitchen did you get permits and is it being inspected? Do you have regular outlets or AFCI/GFCI?

We have a new Samsung French Door (with the 4th "snack" drawer) and since we have an addition and kitchen gut, all the electrical that was touched is up to code and being inspected, which includes the fridge having AFCI/GRCI breakers... It trips the breaker daily, hasn't worked for a full 24 hours. The technicians have been out 4 times and finally said that even the Samsung guy he talked to said that he had to put his new Samsung on an old breaker/outlet. They aren't compatible with the required code of having AFCI/GFCI... Did this happen with you or do you have the regular outlets?

They didn't have to run new outlets for the fridge so we didn't have that problem. I would definitely put it on the contractor to figure it out.

I will post a new question, but from what we've found online and from what our contractor has heard from building inspectors "it's a stupid new code that they need to enforce, so just get it inspected and pass code, then have the electrician come change it out to a regular plug!!!" Can't believe they would change the NEC, but the refrigerators aren't compatible with it...

Yes, unfortunately these new breakers trip very easily by design. I've even found certain light fixtures aren't compatible. When we wired my house ( full gut remodel with permits and an EXCELLENT DESIGNER wink wink) we passed inspection then had to tear out a couple of the circuit breakers immediately thereafter. My electrician has lender circuit breakers he uses for circuits he knows he's going to replace them on.

If you open the doors do they make contact with the cabinet? I have a tight fit and one of my doors has a dent because it came into contact with the oven which is to the right of it. Not sure if you have that problem but wanted to share my right space experience

Ellsworth, my worry about a fridge is... if you go to sell your house, you need to change the breaker so you're "in code" when the house gets inspected. Do you then have to run around trying to figure out which fridge won't trip the circuit?

And krislup, my contractor talked to the building inspector who said the above comment. He's not much help otherwise. Says to either use our old fridge or they can change out the breaker after inspection...

Seems like Samsung needs to figure out what is making their fridge's trip the circuits so easily. And by the way they pretty much said "too bad so sad"... there's nothing wrong with the fridge. (They know they sold a product that won't work in our house by code, but won't do anything...)

ellsworth, my 2013 LG doesn't trip the circuit, was on it for 4-6 weeks and never tripped it. The Samsung tripped it the first night and every night after...