Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, or if this question (or similar) has been answered recently. I'm tired and stressed, so I'm grasping at straws.
We recently moved into an older home that we are in the process of purchasing. It was built sometime in the 30s, and most of the outlets are the old school two prong outlets (not the even the more modern two prong outlets). We were lucky enough to have friends who got a new fridge and stove as we were moving in, and they gave us their old one. There is one "new" three prong outlet in the kitchen (which had new cabinets and floors installed in the last six years, but they didn't really touch the electrical), but it is on the complete opposite side of the room from the fridge. So we slapped a three prong adapter on the fridge (stove has the dedicated weird big outlet), popped it in the two prong outlet, and didn't think a second thing of it. Except the fridge never worked right. It just barely kept stuff cool, and you could keep milk cold in the freezer without freezing it for days, but it would spoil overnight in the fridge. It was an older (-10 years) side by side that was purchased refurbished and had already gone out twice, so we just thought it was the fridge. So on Black Friday, we bought ourselves a brand spanking new fridge, plugged it in to the same adapter but different outlet, and basked in the glory that was our shiny new french door beauty. Groceries were cold and delicious.
This afternoon I noticed the freezer wasn't freezing my husband's lunchbox ice pack. Mind you, that little ice pack is the only thing that has been in the freezer since we have turned it on. I just hadn't moved anything into the freezer from the deep freeze yet. So I tossed some stuff in there thinking (perhaps incredibly stupidly) that it wasn't freezing because there wasn't more stuff in it. The ice cube trays I put in there at 5:00 have now completely thawed out. What the heck is going on?
I feel like the fan is being a little noisier than normal, but that could just be me imagining that now that I'm aware the thing isn't working properly. I turned it off and turned it back on, and switched it to the three prong plug via an extension cord (which itself is only a two prong, so I don't know that that did any good - I don't have a three prong one at the moment), and then to the three prong plug in the bathroom across the hall in case it was the room's wiring and not the plug. It still isn't freezing properly, and I feel like the fridge is getting warmer, too. Is all of this because we used a three prong adapter? Did we ruin our brand new (nauseatingly expensive) fridge? It stormed this afternoon, but I dont think we got any power surges because the clocks on the stove and toaster oven aren't flashing Please help?
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Submitted December 06, 2017 at 10:34AM by moonoak20698 http://ift.tt/2jWLPM8 electricians
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