Refrigerator Repair or Buy new?

No fries said:
Reviving this thread, im still having problems, RQs guy was a good help and was going to come out to repair but said where are you again, FT Mill, oh that is too far......in our several phone discussions we determined it is most likely not defrosting correctly. Freezer maintains its temp but fridge temps go high due to icing. I've called some smaller repair places, prefer to give business to the small guy not some large box store. But they are so busy or don't return calls.

So I am again looking for a appliance repair guy for Charlotte/Fort Mill area.

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Might try to replace the seal on the freezer. If it’s got a crack it’ll freeze up the coils like that. Had one of mine do the same thing. I’ve got to push the freezer door closed to keep it from freezing up.


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I replaced the defroster in one of ours a few years ago. It worked well at first, but would slowly stop cooling over a period of a few days as the evaporator froze up. Once we confirmed the problem and got the parts, the fix only took 30m or so.
 
Another quick thing to check and change is the evap fan. My bar fridge is the French door, freezer on bottom kinda unit as well. Freezer was still frozen, up top was warm. The evap fan blows the cold air from the ecap coil in the freezer to the fridge up top. My fan motor was turning but so slowly it didn't really move any air. Amazon, $20 and 1 day later it was back to normal.
 
Good info, ill have to check that, ours is French doors with freezer in the bottom. Ice maker fan in the door is freezing up, I had replaced that fan first, it worked but was making noise, then after 30-60 days freezes over, ice starts to melt slowly and drips out the dispenser, turn it off and defrost i get about a month before the fridge temps start to rise.

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Does actual ice back up into the freezer floor? Your problem definitely doesn't sound like evap fan since it takes 30 days to stop working. With the pet hair issue (mine did this) some of these models had a too long of a drain tube into the bottom pan. Animal hair would plug it up. The freezer would defrost, water had nowhere to go, ice backs up. If your drain tube is too close to the bottom of the pan, cut 3/8" or so off. It'll make sense when you look a it.
 
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I'll check out the drain line I think it is the humidity, freezing when we open the door, most of the ice forms on the back side not near the door seal as suggested above. I've seen a couple times when the freezer door wasn't closed.

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No fries said:
freezing when we open the door, most of the ice forms on the back side not near the door seal as suggested above
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This sounds like a bad defroster. Mine is a Whirlpool side by side, but the defroster was behind a panel on the back wall of the freezer. It's basically just a little heating element back there that turns on periodically to thaw the coil. IIRC, there are also a couple of temperature switches back there that control when the defroster comes on and/or when the compressor kicks out.
 
shawn said:
This sounds like a bad defroster. Mine is a Whirlpool side by side, but the defroster was behind a panel on the back wall of the freezer. It's basically just a little heating element back there that turns on periodically to thaw the coil. IIRC, there are also a couple of temperature switches back there that control when the defroster comes on and/or when the compressor kicks out.
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Yep. That's where the defrost heater and all the other stuff lives. Ohm out the defroster element. If its an open circuit there's ya problem.
 
willness33 said:
Yep. That's where the defrost heater and all the other stuff lives. Ohm out the defroster element. If its an open circuit there's ya problem.
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I’ve had a problem for the past couple months of my ice dispenser motor freezing up and all the ice in the ice tray freezing together, so much you can’t get any out and you have to bust it all out or melt it all out with hot water. Think this is a bad defroster? It’s a GE side by side, freezer on one side fridge on other.
 
RoosterRash said:
I’ve had a problem for the past couple months of my ice dispenser motor freezing up and all the ice in the ice tray freezing together, so much you can’t get any out and you have to bust it all out or melt it all out with hot water. Think this is a bad defroster? It’s a GE side by side, freezer on one side fridge on other.
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Probably not. 50% of refrigerators with a thru the door ice dispenser will freeze into a solid block if you don't use them daily, in my experience. I fight mine when it's been a few days since I've used it.
 
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