it has done this once before

but i wake up and it like decided to defrost itself without warning

so there's water all over the floor and everything in the freezer is like thawed and the freezer is dripping lots of water into the regular fridge part which still seems cool but i don't really know since the door has been closed.

what is going on? how do i fix it? this is so annoying.

2/28/2010 1:58:52 PM

let me size this problem up over the internet

2/28/2010 1:59:53 PM

Plug it back in.

2/28/2010 2:00:09 PM

sigh

it obviously isn't unplugged and the doors are closed

ok now what is wrong? help.

i will be cleaning water up off the floor and throwing food away

2/28/2010 2:00:54 PM

my guess is that you left the door cracked and didn't realize it

2/28/2010 2:01:41 PM

does the light come on when you open the lower door? if so your compressor might have failed...if not, check the breaker panel

2/28/2010 2:01:55 PM

^^ i know but last night i noticed it didn't seem very cool in the freezer part so i like moved everything around to make sure the vents or whatever weren't covered (remember that time my icecream kept thawing? i figured i just had too much shit in there) and i made sure the doors were TIGHTLY closed.

^ yes the light comes on. i'm totally fucked aren't i?

[Edited on February 28, 2010 at 2:06 PM. Reason : .]

2/28/2010 2:04:00 PM

based on your tww posts, i'd say you're fucked no matter what the case is with your fridge

[Edited on February 28, 2010 at 2:08 PM. Reason : just marry rich like the other girls like you]

2/28/2010 2:07:48 PM

lol

ughhh. guess i'm going to call my dad to see what he says

but i don't really feel like getting bitched at

marriage = ew

and if i wanted to marry rich i wouldn't go to grad school.

[Edited on February 28, 2010 at 2:09 PM. Reason : .]

2/28/2010 2:08:40 PM

in that case, are you sure all the water it's leaking is coming from the freezer? did you have a lot of ice in it? does the water it's leaking smell/look funny? do you ever hear the fridge "kick on" and humm like it's running (now, that is)?

i'm no fridge mechanic, i'm just working with a conceptual diagnosis here, but sounds like a) burnt-out compressor or electrical malfunction thereof, or b) leak in refrigerant line making it ineffectual

[Edited on February 28, 2010 at 2:10 PM. Reason : asdf]

2/28/2010 2:09:11 PM

It hates you.

2/28/2010 2:10:59 PM

well it just SEEMS like the freezer cause its all dripping down into the fridge part and then there's wet all over the floor.

doesn't seem to smell

and no ice in the freezer at all - i leave my icemaker off cause the ice here tastes funny. and there wasn't like ice building up anywhere else. just looked like a normal freezer. and i only had like 3 things in it this time so i doubt it was overcrowded.

goodbye value club box of taquitos '

oh yea and i haven't heard it hum in a long time. it just seems dead.

[Edited on February 28, 2010 at 2:12 PM. Reason : .]

2/28/2010 2:11:17 PM

fuck you and your fucking fridge

2/28/2010 2:14:04 PM

ah, my amateur opinion is a) then


unless...you just have the thermostat turned way down. look inside the fridge (not freezer) toward the back/top (usually) for a dial and crank it all the way cold. see if you hear anything kick on like a fan or motor

2/28/2010 2:17:17 PM

i already did that and i heard nothing

fuck.

2/28/2010 2:18:42 PM

You never put any baby cow in it. You didn't show it that you appreciate it. Now go, kill a baby cow and put it in the fridge. Reward it.

2/28/2010 2:19:38 PM

Sounds like it's broke. Call and get it fixed.

2/28/2010 2:21:17 PM

probably better off to just get a new one than to try and fix that one unless it's fairly new

2/28/2010 2:23:14 PM

Don't you have a bf? Or is he just useless when it comes to fixing things around the house?

2/28/2010 2:27:11 PM

Also you could have an ice buildup between the freezer and fridge. Do you have a channel that runs from the middle top of the fridge part to the back? Is it dripping out of there?

If yes, then you likely have a clogged drain line. This can cause the water channel to backfill and not run off when the defrost cycle runs. This happened to me a few months ago and the water filled the section under the freezer with ice, killing the effectiveness of the cooling coils. I didn't notice until the damn freezer fan got clogged with ice. Two ways to tell for you. First, look under the fridge in the drain pan and see if it is empty and dry, or if its damp and full. If it has water in it, then this is not the problem. If it is dry, then take that channel off from the top (its usually a single screw) and slide it out from the back of the fridge. If the water doesn't drain, get a turkey baster, boil some water, and shoot it down the drain hole in the back of the fridge. If that doesn't fix it, you may need to remove the plug in the back of the fridge and clean it manually; it can get coated up with shit over the years.

^^Don't listen to NeuseRivrRat. The fridge I have is as old as me and still runs like a top. They just need to be maintained. As long as the compressor doesn't let go, you are okay. If you spin the timer and you hear it click and come on (and maybe the lights blink/dim/surge) then the compressor is coming on. There are multiple other things that could cause this (low on refrigerant, or the timer is dead) but those are also not overly difficult fixes. You'll need a technician to do that shit though.

If this was true, then you need to check in the cooling part of your fridge as well for ice buildup. Where you took the channel off at the top of the refrigerator section, look up with a flashlight and see if ice is built up. If so, you need to take everything out of the freezer, pop the freezer floor up (just held down by screws) and try and break that ice loose. You can't just chisel it though because your cooling lines are located here. What I did was took a very small drill bit and drilled through the top of the fridge through the ice. Then I took a hairdryer and melted the ice off the cooling coils and dried it all up with towels. Then I put that shit back together and its been running fine ever since.

[Edited on February 28, 2010 at 2:30 PM. Reason : ]

2/28/2010 2:28:23 PM

OK

i called my dad. this happened once before. it clearly isn't new. its supposed to be a frost free freezer but it doesn't ALWAYS work

so he said to unscrew the bottom part of the freezer (that is where all the water is) and he said it probably froze last night and then once it was clogged or whatever it started melting so i have to get all the water and ice (i didn't see any ice) out. and then i don't know what to do after that

and i don't live in the same city as my bf!

^ YES THANK YOU! and paerabol for helping. it looks like there WAS ice buildup and it just melted. there's a LITTLE still left in the very back. so i'm unscrewing it now and getting it out.


[Edited on February 28, 2010 at 2:33 PM. Reason : .]

2/28/2010 2:28:51 PM

ugh one of the screws i can't get out. this sucksssss

2/28/2010 2:41:22 PM

hate. my. life.

what do i need to buy to get a stripped screw to come out? cause one of the screws is stripped and i cannot get it out and i don't know what i need to use

2/28/2010 2:57:15 PM

Pliers, or I've seen commercials for that Grabit thing made for getting out screwed up screws.

2/28/2010 3:20:18 PM

2/28/2010 3:23:20 PM

or a drill.

which is what i'm going to try tomorrow except my dad says i might not be strong enough to drill the hole myself

UGH

tried pliers and i went to lowe's to see if they had a thing like the grabit thing but they didn't and the guy was a total douche to me so fuck him and fuck lowe's. will never go there again!

anyway i'm borrowing a drill from a friend tomorrow (i didn't really wanna buy one if i could borrow) and i have the like screw extractor thing for the drill so...yay! power tools!

2/28/2010 5:03:56 PM

First world problems itt.

2/28/2010 5:05:52 PM

i know right

i was about to show the lowe's man a first world kick in the balls

but

i have to be eligible to sit for the bar exam so no assault until after july.

2/28/2010 5:07:27 PM

well, end of july.


but who's counting

2/28/2010 5:08:56 PM

man, did you buy a lemon condo or what??

2/28/2010 5:12:00 PM

no, she just posts about little stuff that most folks don't break a sweat over

2/28/2010 5:12:41 PM

^ They call that a drama queen.

2/28/2010 5:13:47 PM

you meant to type "woman" right?

2/28/2010 5:15:20 PM

ok you can laugh at women all you want but i was explaining to not one but TWO lowe's people what i needed and the first one said "i don't know" and the second one was just a douche and tried to tell me all this other shit and i was like, i know what i need asshole. calm the fuck down.

at least i'm not a 45 year old sexist lowe's workers who doesn't know what a stripped screw is or a screw extractor

HMPH

[Edited on February 28, 2010 at 5:17 PM. Reason : .]

2/28/2010 5:15:48 PM

i'm just playin around.

wish i could help, but i'm not a fridge guru and helping over the internet just isn't possible. i'd have to actually look at it.

2/28/2010 5:18:54 PM

Kat, is your man not dicking you down properly? You've been real bitchy lately.

2/28/2010 5:19:37 PM

i know what is wrong with it now

everything is fine

i just have to get a screw out of this tray thing. but i don't have a drill. which i MAY have purchased at lowe's if some dude wasn't a huge douche

^ haha how have i been bitchy? just cause i hate the lowe's man doesn't make me a bitch.

2/28/2010 5:20:35 PM

i have a cordless drill you're welcome to borrow

2/28/2010 5:23:01 PM

thanks. i'm in gboro. and i'm getting one from a friend at school tomorrow. hopefully then prob will be solved.

and just so everyone knows my sex life is fine, THANKS!

2/28/2010 5:27:02 PM

FLOODING AGAINNNNNNNNN/DEFROSTING WHEN IT ISN'T SUPPOSED TO

i'm not even dealing with it though. since my freezer is still pretty cold, like the fridge SHOULD be, but not cold enough to freeze shit, I just moved all my stuff up there for now (I didn't have much food anyway)

and i'm just not dealing with it. i'm calling an appliance man tomorrow. my dad said he would help me pay to fix it (thank god).

5/9/2010 4:02:10 PM

notice how interest in this thread plummeted with this line:

Quote :

"and just so everyone knows my sex life is fine, THANKS! "

5/9/2010 4:11:51 PM

you can get a government rebate if you buy a new appliance 2 weeks ago, you should look into it

5/9/2010 4:13:45 PM

my guess is bad thermostat

5/9/2010 5:56:41 PM