About FitAppliance
Why this site exists
I built FitAppliance after a very ordinary household job turned into a very annoying one. I was replacing a fridge at home, measured the kitchen cavity, chose a product that looked right on the retailer page, and still ended up with a serious fit problem. The cavity measurement and the product that arrived did not line up in the way I expected. Moving it, checking the space again, and dealing with the possibility of a return made the whole purchase feel much harder than it should have been.
That experience changed how I looked at appliance shopping in Australia. Retailer pages usually show width, height and depth, but the real question is more practical: will this appliance fit in my actual home, with the required airflow space, the door swing, and the delivery path? FitAppliance started as my answer to that frustration. I wanted a tool I could use the next time I replace a fridge, washer, dryer or dishwasher. If it helps other Australian households avoid the same heavy, expensive mistake, even better.
What we do
FitAppliance is a sizing and fit tool for Australian appliances. You enter the cavity dimensions you have at home. The site compares those measurements with appliance dimensions, brand-specific clearance rules, door swing data, doorway access notes and energy star information. The current catalogue covers about 2,170 products across four categories: fridges, washing machines, dryers and dishwashers.
The public search experience is backed by code that anyone can inspect. The fit pipeline lives in
public/scripts/search-core.js. Door swing inference is documented in
scripts/infer-door-swing.js. Brand name normalisation is kept in
data/brand-canon.json. Those files matter because this is a tool, not a blog post. The useful part
is the calculation, and the calculation should be open to scrutiny.
I also try to keep the product promise narrow. A tool that gives a careful answer to one household question is more useful than a site that claims to solve the whole purchase. FitAppliance is meant to sit beside the retailer page and the installation manual, not replace either of them.
What we don't do
- We do not publish product reviews. FitAppliance is a fit checker, not a review site.
- We do not calculate state energy-upgrade rebates or eligibility.
- We do not show current stock levels or current retailer prices.
- We do not accept paid brand placement in the search ranking.
- We do not replace the manufacturer's installation manual. The manual remains the final source for installation work.
Independent and solo
FitAppliance is run independently by me, JZ, in Australia. It is a one-person project. That has trade-offs. There is no large support desk, no sales team and no investor pressure pushing the site toward whatever converts fastest. It also means updates can take longer, and the catalogue will never be perfect on the first pass.
I think that trade-off is worth being clear about. A small independent tool can be useful precisely because it has a narrow job. FitAppliance tries to answer one practical question well: which appliances are physically plausible for the space you have measured? If data is missing or uncertain, the site should say so rather than pretend the answer is complete.
How we make money
FitAppliance may earn a small commission when someone clicks through to a retailer and buys from that retailer. The affiliate partners currently referenced by the project are JB Hi-Fi, Harvey Norman, The Good Guys, Appliances Online and Bing Lee. Those links help cover hosting, maintenance and the time needed to keep the tool useful.
Affiliate commission does not change whether a product fits your cavity. It also does not buy a brand a better position in the fit calculation. Search results are driven by dimensions, clearance rules, availability data where present, and the sort option the user chooses. If the way FitAppliance is funded changes in a way that affects how results are shown, I will say that plainly on this site.
Open and verifiable
The project source code is public on GitHub: https://github.com/fitappliance/fitappliance. That means anyone can review the algorithms, the data files, the generated pages, and the commit history behind changes. It also means mistakes can be reported with a specific file or line number instead of vague feedback.
Transparency does not make the data flawless. It makes the work checkable. For an appliance tool, that matters more than sounding polished.
Contact
The clearest way to reach me is through GitHub:
- Report a data error or bug: open an issue.
- Suggest a feature or new appliance category: start a discussion.
Email contact (hello@fitappliance.com.au) is being set up. When active, it will appear here.
Last reviewed
This page was last reviewed on 26 April 2026. Material changes should be visible in the GitHub commit history.