One cause of icing up in a fridge or freezer can be a poorly fitting or damaged door seal. If the door seal becomes distorted the seal will start to allow warm moist air into the freezer or fridge. This will cause snowy ice to deposit around the point of entry which will eventually cause the compartment to completely ice up.
Frost free freezers and automatic defrosting fridges, how do they work?
June 8, 2009 By
Frost free fridge freezers are very popular and auto defrosting fridges are a great convenience. In a frost free appliance the cold air is blown round the freezer using a fan. On modern refrigeration the evaporator (which is the plate that gets cold) is hidden behind the plastic wall inside at the back of the food shelves. When working correctly you can usually see small beads of ice randomly scattered on the back wall unless it’s in a defrost cycle when you may see water.
Hotpoint Quadrio FF4DX claim to “save up to 50% energy” ad is misleading
May 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint regarding the Indesit company’s new “revolutionary new four-door fridge freezer” under the Hotpoint brand Hotpoint Quadrio FF4DX (product advertised on Sainsbury’s Appliances site). The complainant challenged whether the claim “save up to 50% energy” misleadingly implied that the product could save up to 50% of the total energy used by a fridge freezer, rather than (merely) a saving in the energy required to restore the internal temperature of a compartment once the door had been opened.
How are fridges and freezers affected by the room temperature?
April 1, 2009 By 6 Comments
Refrigeration appliances can be affected by the environment they are placed in if the temperature moves outside the climate rating specified by the manufacturer ( Climate Classes for fridges, freezers and fridge-freezers ). They will cope with most of the UK weather but if the temperature drops below maybe 2 to 4 degrees Celsius a fridge may stop working.
