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silly question but how do you defrost a fridge freezer?

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leanne_1987 | 12:22 Wed 20th Jul 2011 | Home & Garden
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my freezer has been making a loud buzzing noise for about a week now so thought i'd try defrosting it, but what have you actually got to do other than take the food out and opening the door? do i turn the whole thing off? if so wont the food in fridge go off? and roughly how long will it take?
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Have you got some cold bags? that will keep it frozen for a couple of hours while you defrost it.
Being a helpless male, defrosting the fridge freezer ranks second in the tasks from Hell, surpassed only by having to change the duvet cover.
When I used to defrost a freezer,I used hairdryer and pans of hot water,did the trick quite quick so there was no need to panic about the contents.My last 2 fridge freezers have been those frost free ones,brilliant.
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ive put all my frozen stuf into my other freezer, ust wondered if i turned it off at wall will my fridge stuff be ok?
if you have room stack everything tight in Fridge & don't open door 'till freezer running again ( leave milk out for cups of tea)
Ron.
Keep your fridge door closed and don't open it unless necessary and the food should maintain a reasonably cold temperature.
I use the steam cleaner on mine, melts away in no time. If it's going to take longer maybe wait until you can run down the contents a bit, or use cold bags as cupid says. then yes switch it all off while it defrosts.
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thanks all, wasnt as bad as i thought, it is actually a frost free one turned out if was a big block ice stopping the fan from working properly so ust chipped that away although its still making a slight noise
Actually, I suspect your problems are just starting rather than being solved...
A "frost-free" freezer/fridge combo (at least here in the U.S.) is, in reality, an automatic defrost type. It goes through a cycle every so often wherein a heating device installed in the freezer section (you can't see it, it's behind a panel) comes on and melts any ice accumulated on it. The melted water runs down to a drain in the bottom and out into a catch pan. From there it simply evaporates, and cycle starts all over again.
Thing is, if you truly have a "frost-free" model and you had to chip away ice, then the auto defrost function has gone t.u. I could explain how to fix it, but it would exceed the 4,000 word limit here... call a repairman... it shouldn't cost much. Often the "heating devices" are nothing more than small (about an inch in diameter, longish (5 inches) tubes that look like the skinny desk light bulbs... sometimes they just wear out...
Clanad got there before me. If it IS frost-free, there shouldn't be chunks of ice in it!
Do they say "t.u." in the States? We're not as different as we thought!
It's descriptive enough to get the point (no pun intended) across...
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it does say frost free fridge freezer so obviously something is wrong with it, best get saving for a new one then
get it checked first it might not be a terminal condition

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