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Why have you been eating peanut butter sandwiches all week?
My refrigerator is not cooling! So I’m stuck eating shelf-stable meals, and getting really
sick of spam.
If you have a frost-free fridge, check the freezer’s air flow. If you’ve stuffed
the freezer, it may not have enough air flow to keep things cool.
I don’t think that’s the cause.
Check the thermostat. Your kids might have been messing with it.
Trust me, I verify that and adjust it every time I get a new 24 pack of beer.
If the thermostat is set correctly, the thermostat itself may be broken. In that case, it needs
to be replaced.
I’ll consider that option. What’s another possible cause?
Clean the fridge.
If it isn’t cold, I need to clean it out because the food is going bad.
No, I mean clean the outside of the fridge. You should clean the refrigerator coils on
the back of the fridge, since this is where the fridge vents excess heat.
When my mother made a list of chores that I had to finish to say the house was clean,
dusting the fridge was never on my chore list.
You may want to move the fridge back from the wall so there is enough air flow to keep
the fridge
That’s probably the simplest solution yet. And if there’s enough space?
Clean the coils anyway. Removing the dust and debris will improve their efficiency,
thus the refrigerator’s efficiency.
Could the coils themselves be the cause?
Sure, if there is a coolant leak there. That is especially true if the coils have a crack
or a leak.
Then they’ll need to be replaced.
You need to get back there, first.
Yeah, I’ll have to move it anyway, just to give the repair tech enough space to work.