My freezer thawed and refroze should I replace it or am I doing something wrong.?!
My freezer thawed and refroze should I replace it or am I doing something wrong.?
I have a Fridgeidare chest freezer that is approx 10yrs old. I noticed a few weeks ago my ice cream had liquefied but every thing else was frozen solid. Now every thing on the top partially thawed and then all the ice and water froze solid in the bottom of the freezer. The unit is still freezing ice along the inside of the walls.Is the unit bad or is there a common problem here? Also I defrosted the unit approx 12 mths ago.
Answers:
sounds like there's a problem with the defrost system.
Call in a service tech. most likely the defrost timer is running slow and keeping the freezer in defrost mode too long. While in defrost mode... (even after the thermostat meant to prevent what you have happening trips to turn off the heater) the compressor is disabled.
Shouldn't be too bad... service call fee ($60) and a defrost timer ($30)
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Could also be a bad thermostat... about the same price.