Just been out and splashed out a fortune on over priced expensive food for our annual Sunday lunch on Thursday. On top shelf of fridge is some bottles of water near the light, when i touched them they felt almost warm. Everything else didn't feel overly cold.
Door seems to close fine (it's a CDA integrated fridge/freezer - 7 year old) so I removed the outer doors that match the rest of the cupboards and after a while the compressor kicked in. I noticed a very slight warp on the outer door, which may have stopped the actual fridge door from engaging?
Two hours later and nothing feels any warmer but not that much cooler either, I've put in on 7 on the dial and just nipped to Asda and bought a thermometer to test the inside temperature..
What should I expect the temperature to be and is this a sign that the refrigerant is depleted???
Great timing too with about £150 of food just put in to it 😈
Pull the fridge out (but don't rock it too much) and clean the dust/debris around the compressor/heat exchanger and pipe work at the rear - ensure any self defrosting channels are clean and free.
It may work, or it may be fubard - i imagine they'll be some sort of sale on very soon at the fridge store 😉
Feel the compressor at the back large black tank if its very hot, fridge may be over working trying to cool stuff down
also check drain channels inside freezer and fridge they drain to small tray over compressor and sometimes block.
Feel inside fridge on walls if theyr warm youve got a gas leak, needs re gassing or new fridge.Thats if the leak is repairable.
thanks guys, just been looking at similar content on CDA's website but on newer fridges that are similar.
Putting £150 worth of food in might just have given it pause, that's a lot of stuff to cool. TBF i wouldn't expect a fridge full to get a lot of cooling in just 2 hours, leave it overnight.
And buy some Immodium just in case.
You don't have a holiday mode button do you?
we've managed to accidentally press our "vacation" mode button when loading the fringe full.
You don't have a holiday mode button do you?
we've managed to accidentally press our "vacation" mode button when loading the fringe full.
Is the purpose of this button to putrefy your food, and by doing so give the sense of being on holiday as spending the next two weeks wishing your toilet and sink were a little nearer each other?
If my kitchen temperature drops below 30c the fridge/freezer stops working, and can take seven hours to kick in, I got round this by using a hair dryer on the back near the compressor, after 10mins the compressor kicks in and all is good.