The plastic drawers inside a freezer or fridge freezer often break. It doesn’t help that they are made of fairly thin plastic, which is extra brittle due to the extreme cold temperatures. However, there’s no reason for them to break at all if you know how to look after them.. This article shows how to
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CAPLE fridges safety notice
Here is another safety notice. Issued by the manufacturer of Caple fridges. From what I can see this safety notice was originally issued in 2015. The manufacturers are reissuing the notice in a fresh attempt to ensure all affected models still around are modified. These fridges were apparently made between 2007 and 2008 so they
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Hotpoint have reacted to reports that the Grenfell fire was caused by one of their fridge freezers. However, since writing this article there is an important update. It is still too early to know exactly what caused the fridge freezer to catch fire. Reports are that there was an explosion. Unfortunately modern refrigerators do contain
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Finding ice in the base of a freezer is a common fault. I’ve recently had to repair my own freezer with this problem and this article documents what I did to fix the fault. This issue can affect stand alone freezers, or the freezer section of a fridge-freezer. Sometimes a build up of ice may
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Sometimes water may appear in the bottom of the fridge. This is usually caused when water created by automatic defrosting cannot run away through the hole in the channel at the back. So it runs into the base of the fridge instead. If you open the door, at the back of many fridges and fridge
read the full article..American-style fridge freezers delivery warnings
American-style fridge freezers are popular due to their storage capacity. But they are very large appliances to have delivered to our homes. This article highlights potential delivery problems that you may be unaware of, or which may not have crossed your mind. Read before buying one .. .. I recently came across this important small
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