Refrigerator woes
Nov. 8th, 2002 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikI have a really neat refrigerator. I just bought it earlier this year, it has the freezer on the bottom, it's extremely well laid out, it's energy efficient and generally nifty. (Clear drawers. Shelves that slide out...)
However, about this time last week, it the lower two drawers in the fridge section froze solid. I adjusted the settings (part of the problem was that someone had left the freezer slightly cracked over night, so I thought that might have thrown everything off.) I called the company. The chick I talked to there said she knew exactly what was wrong, it was the damper that controlled the vent between the freezer and refrigerator -- it was stuck open.
I asked her if she could describe where it was so I could fix it. She said no, she needed to send a repair guy out.
That was Saturday. Wednesday the repair guy came, diagnosed the problem as being the pipe between the freezer and the deli drawer being misaligned (which must have happened when we first got the unit and I moved the shelves around) and an accumulation of frost on the freezer thermostat. He fixed the former, said that should do the job but advised me to fix the later.
That day didn't see significant improvement, so yesterday I defrosted the refrigerator. Swabbed it out, restarted everything, and then put a cup of water in the bottom of the refrigerator.
It froze solid.
Called the Amana office again. They can send someone out Tuesday. (Tuesday?!!!) I ask to speak to tech support. I beg them to tell me where this fricking damper is so I can fix it myself.
"You don't want to do that, it will void your warranty."
It's seems like a very simple problem, most likely, with a fairly simple solution. But it's been a week, and I can't really keep any produce in the fridge (except maybe at the very top) for fear of it freezing. I *could* haul the dorm fridge up from the garage, I guess...
This bites.
I keep telling myself that the exercise of not using the kind of fresh produce that requires refrigeration is a good discipline... Heck, shopping for produce right before you use it is a good idea, too. And cleaning out the freezer was a good thing -- the fridge gets cleaned a couple time a month, but the freezer is more likely to be ignored.
I'm not really convincing myself.
However, about this time last week, it the lower two drawers in the fridge section froze solid. I adjusted the settings (part of the problem was that someone had left the freezer slightly cracked over night, so I thought that might have thrown everything off.) I called the company. The chick I talked to there said she knew exactly what was wrong, it was the damper that controlled the vent between the freezer and refrigerator -- it was stuck open.
I asked her if she could describe where it was so I could fix it. She said no, she needed to send a repair guy out.
That was Saturday. Wednesday the repair guy came, diagnosed the problem as being the pipe between the freezer and the deli drawer being misaligned (which must have happened when we first got the unit and I moved the shelves around) and an accumulation of frost on the freezer thermostat. He fixed the former, said that should do the job but advised me to fix the later.
That day didn't see significant improvement, so yesterday I defrosted the refrigerator. Swabbed it out, restarted everything, and then put a cup of water in the bottom of the refrigerator.
It froze solid.
Called the Amana office again. They can send someone out Tuesday. (Tuesday?!!!) I ask to speak to tech support. I beg them to tell me where this fricking damper is so I can fix it myself.
"You don't want to do that, it will void your warranty."
It's seems like a very simple problem, most likely, with a fairly simple solution. But it's been a week, and I can't really keep any produce in the fridge (except maybe at the very top) for fear of it freezing. I *could* haul the dorm fridge up from the garage, I guess...
This bites.
I keep telling myself that the exercise of not using the kind of fresh produce that requires refrigeration is a good discipline... Heck, shopping for produce right before you use it is a good idea, too. And cleaning out the freezer was a good thing -- the fridge gets cleaned a couple time a month, but the freezer is more likely to be ignored.
I'm not really convincing myself.
