I noticed that our refrigerator was a little warmer than usual and I thought maybe our 3 year old left it open. I also noted that our lunch ice packs are not solid when coming out of the freezer (but everything else still seems frozen).
Today, I could feel the heat coming off the bulb when I reached in. I turned the dial to coldest and closed the fridge expecting to hear that motor sound kick on, but nothing happened. I called a local repair company who told me I could try vacuuming behind the kickplate (which I have never done in the 2 years we've lived here) while we decide whether it needs to be repaired. Turns out, there was cat hair 2 inches thick under the kickplate! I closed to fridge and went out to run errands. Came back to a fridge that had gone from 66 to 55 degrees in 3 hours. I don't think that's normal.
Did I really screw it up by never vacuuming the cat hair off? Is this salvageable or should I just prepare myself to buy a new fridge?
Submitted September 13, 2015 at 12:06AM by Aeosculap http://ift.tt/1OKIhUW HomeImprovement
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