Mark42
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Before Thanksgiving, wife and I cleaned the entire house in prep for guests. I even pulled the refrigerator out into the middle of the kitchen so the floor could be washed underneath (yech!). Put it back and all was well.
Well sort of well. Saturday my daughter noticed the ice cream was soup. The ice was still ice, but a few other items in the freezer were soft. The digital readout for temps showed the freezer to be only 22 degrees F, when it should be zero. The fan in the freezer was running all day. I checked to make sure the door seal was sealing, and that the ice dispenser door was closed (sometimes kids put glass of juice in the door dispenser and the ice cubes splash juice up into the ice door mechanism making it stick open letting out the cold air). All was well. Then I removed all the magnets with papers and drawings etc from the sides of the fridge. A few hours later, the temps still did not drop (the sides of the fridge were still hot). This fridge has no exposed coils on the back. I looked anyway, and the fridge was close to the wall. I could just slip my hand between it and the wall, and it was HOT back there. So I pulled the fridge out about 4 inches. A few hours later, the temp read 17 F. The next day in the AM it read 4 F, and at lunch it read -3 F.
So, even though the fridge has no exposed coils on the back (its just a big slab of galvanized sheet metal) it is still radiating heat. Just had it too close to the wall.
Was getting ready to call a service tech to come check it out. Glad I waited a couple of days. Dodged that bullet! LOL!
Well sort of well. Saturday my daughter noticed the ice cream was soup. The ice was still ice, but a few other items in the freezer were soft. The digital readout for temps showed the freezer to be only 22 degrees F, when it should be zero. The fan in the freezer was running all day. I checked to make sure the door seal was sealing, and that the ice dispenser door was closed (sometimes kids put glass of juice in the door dispenser and the ice cubes splash juice up into the ice door mechanism making it stick open letting out the cold air). All was well. Then I removed all the magnets with papers and drawings etc from the sides of the fridge. A few hours later, the temps still did not drop (the sides of the fridge were still hot). This fridge has no exposed coils on the back. I looked anyway, and the fridge was close to the wall. I could just slip my hand between it and the wall, and it was HOT back there. So I pulled the fridge out about 4 inches. A few hours later, the temp read 17 F. The next day in the AM it read 4 F, and at lunch it read -3 F.
So, even though the fridge has no exposed coils on the back (its just a big slab of galvanized sheet metal) it is still radiating heat. Just had it too close to the wall.
Was getting ready to call a service tech to come check it out. Glad I waited a couple of days. Dodged that bullet! LOL!
