Gotta Clean Those Refrigerator Coils

So I have established a little ritual that I do with every new customer lately, I do it for free as a signup bonus of sorts . . . I check people’s refrigerators.

There are essentially 2 kinds of refrigerators– those that have the coils in the back, and those that have them at the bottom.  if your frij is the latter design, there is a 90% chance that you never knew that you needed to clean those bottom mounted coils now and then.

Once I see that louvre cover at the base of a door on a frij, I pull it off and this is typically what I find:

 Gross, is it not?  Not only is this completely blocking the flow of air over the coils, thus making the frij waste power, AND wear out the compressor prematurely . . . it is also blowing this garbage into the air of the house.  Another pic:

And at last, below, you see the SAME SHOT with the crud removed and the coils at last getting some cooling air.


Dust bunny?  This is a dust hippo!  🙂

This frij dust blanket problem is TYPICAL.  The stuff I see!  🙂