Fridge freezer.................

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cheeses of nazereth

cheeses of nazereth

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Bit of a weird one this.......well i think so.
Would wake up some mornings and my sausage(ooooer missus) would be soft in the freezer.
Then hard in the afternoons,with no settings changed to the freezer.
This went on for a week or so and was sending me mental,not knowing what was causing it.
Tried defrosting then turning back on chanign fuse wall socket etc.
Only had it just over two month so with it beign in warrenty i rang for someone to come out.
told him what was happening and he didnt even open his toolbox.
Said"it's ambient air"
Because i don't have a radiator in the kitchen,it gets pretty cold.
So at night the air is cold enough to fool the fridge into thinking it doesn't need to start up.
I asked so what do all the other people do who have this kind of problem.
He said i could put it in another room,I said i cant have the freezer in the sitting room when im watchign the telly.
He shrugged said nowt he could do and left.
Which means every time it's cold my sausages go soft and theres nowt i can do about i.
Has this happened to anyone else and did you manage to fool the temperature sensor.
So that your food didn't defrost.
He said my problem was very common but didn't give any suggestions other than a different room.
But what other room could you put it in other than a kitchen and not look mental?
Maybe i should just use the fridge and not freeze owt until the summer.
Bit of a long post this.......................but it really did send me a bit mental trying to figure it out.
 


PTR said:
Freezers have a minimum room temperature. But I doubt your kitchen reaches it.
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I think he said 8 anything lower would fool the fridge into not starting up.
But it does get really cold in there at night with no radiator,not that i'd leave a radiator on just for my fridge.
Upto now the only thought i've had is.....................leave the fridge door open a few times before bed so the freezer works until the morning.
The reason i bought a new one was...this happened to the previous one so i thought it was knackerd.
I bet he wasn't even an engineer he's been a chancer who's seen the door open and wanted a look about.
 
Sounds weird like, the only solution offered was to put it in a different room?!

How about a portable oil radiator in the kitchen? Send your electric bill up a bit buy hey, your freezer might actually do it's only job.
 
silas80 said:
Sounds weird like, the only solution offered was to put it in a different room?!

How about a portable oil radiator in the kitchen? Send your electric bill up a bit buy hey, your freezer might actually do it's only job.
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Yeah i've never heard of anything like this before either.
Maybe it was because we've had that cold snap that it made me more aware stuff was defrsoting.
But exactly the same thing happened with my previous freezer aswell.
So i wasted a few hundred quid getting a new one for nowt.
I just thought there may of been a way to fool the sensor in the fridge to thinking it was above 8 degrees.
I could buy an outdoor fridge freezer but they're more expensive and i'm not buying another when this ones only a few month old.
 
Guessing therell be a temperature probe for the ambient somewhere. Find that and cover it in insulation might help, or smash it with a hammer/disconnect it and hope the freezer defaults to on which it should.
 
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cheeses of nazereth said:
Bit of a weird one this.......well i think so.
Would wake up some mornings and my sausage(ooooer missus) would be soft in the freezer.
Then hard in the afternoons,with no settings changed to the freezer.
This went on for a week or so and was sending me mental,not knowing what was causing it.
Tried defrosting then turning back on chanign fuse wall socket etc.
Only had it just over two month so with it beign in warrenty i rang for someone to come out.
told him what was happening and he didnt even open his toolbox.
Said"it's ambient air"
Because i don't have a radiator in the kitchen,it gets pretty cold.
So at night the air is cold enough to fool the fridge into thinking it doesn't need to start up.
I asked so what do all the other people do who have this kind of problem.
He said i could put it in another room,I said i cant have the freezer in the sitting room when im watchign the telly.
He shrugged said nowt he could do and left.
Which means every time it's cold my sausages go soft and theres nowt i can do about i.
Has this happened to anyone else and did you manage to fool the temperature sensor.
So that your food didn't defrost.
He said my problem was very common but didn't give any suggestions other than a different room.
But what other room could you put it in other than a kitchen and not look mental?
Maybe i should just use the fridge and not freeze owt until the summer.
Bit of a long post this.......................but it really did send me a bit mental trying to figure it out.
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I was expecting an animated gif of Rodwell being locked up in a fridge freezer.... 1/10 :(
 
cheeses of nazereth said:
Yeah i've never heard of anything like this before either.
Maybe it was because we've had that cold snap that it made me more aware stuff was defrsoting.
But exactly the same thing happened with my previous freezer aswell.
So i wasted a few hundred quid getting a new one for nowt.
I just thought there may of been a way to fool the sensor in the fridge to thinking it was above 8 degrees.
I could buy an outdoor fridge freezer but they're more expensive and i'm not buying another when this ones only a few month old.
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If it's any consolation I replaced my fridge freezer in that cold snap and it sounds like it was the same thing.
If had a new kitchen fitted round my old fridge freezer too and the new one is narrower so I have an annoying gap.
 
cheeses of nazereth said:
Bit of a weird one this.......well i think so.
Would wake up some mornings and my sausage(ooooer missus) would be soft in the freezer.
Then hard in the afternoons,with no settings changed to the freezer.
This went on for a week or so and was sending me mental,not knowing what was causing it.
Tried defrosting then turning back on chanign fuse wall socket etc.
Only had it just over two month so with it beign in warrenty i rang for someone to come out.
told him what was happening and he didnt even open his toolbox.
Said"it's ambient air"
Because i don't have a radiator in the kitchen,it gets pretty cold.
So at night the air is cold enough to fool the fridge into thinking it doesn't need to start up.
I asked so what do all the other people do who have this kind of problem.
He said i could put it in another room,I said i cant have the freezer in the sitting room when im watchign the telly.
He shrugged said nowt he could do and left.
Which means every time it's cold my sausages go soft and theres nowt i can do about i.
Has this happened to anyone else and did you manage to fool the temperature sensor.
So that your food didn't defrost.
He said my problem was very common but didn't give any suggestions other than a different room.
But what other room could you put it in other than a kitchen and not look mental?
Maybe i should just use the fridge and not freeze owt until the summer.
Bit of a long post this.......................but it really did send me a bit mental trying to figure it out.
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Covert sausage botherers, tiny and undetectable to the human eye.

good luck.
 
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