For those of you with side-by-side refrigerators.
I was putting some stuff away and had both doors open.
I leaned forward to get something to the back of the bottom shelf and put my hand on the face of the center wall and was surprised to find it quite warm. I went downstairs to see if that one was the same. It was.
I imagine it is warm to keep the magnety-rubbery seal pliable. 48 years and I never noticed that. Something new every day!
Is yours warm?
Apologies in advance for making you get up to check!
Takes heat to make cold. All freezers and refrierators work that way.
We noticed that, and it got so bad we thought there would be a fire.
Then I read an article that you need to clean the dust out of the coils under the unit.
My goodness, we had 5 pounds of dog hair/dust bunnies under there! Vacuumed it up and problem solved!
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We're vacuuming our fridge out right now. thanks for the tip guys. this new site is rocking already. It has solved two problems of mine in the last 12 hours already.
Check at a hardware store for a rat tail brush made for cleaning the coils of refrigerator and freezers.
Thank Rich for the answer and JB for starting the thread.
I checked mine and it's a bit warm. Afternoon project coming up to check that out.
Even it is not a real fire hazard then I would think that it causes the frig to be less than efficient and waste a lot of energy.
Deral
