{"id":37,"date":"2009-03-18T11:57:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T11:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cotsweb.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2009-03-18T11:57:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T11:57:05","slug":"whirlpool-no-frost-freezer-fails-to-maintain-temperature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/whirlpool-no-frost-freezer-fails-to-maintain-temperature-37.html","title":{"rendered":"Whirlpool No Frost freezer fails to maintain temperature"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a bit off topic for what is normally a blog devoted to life with computers and the internet but I thought it might be useful to somebody.<\/p>\n

We have a Whirlpool No Frost freezer which we bought a little over 1 year ago, so just out of warranty of course.\u00a0 We have been pretty happy with it so far but a few days ago it began to warm up.\u00a0 Normally it maintains the set temperature of -18\u00b0C quite well, but lately the temperature has started to slowly drift upwards, even with the Fast Freeze function on it wouldn’t go below -14\u00b0C and then -12\u00b0C.<\/p>\n

Now this is obviously a pretty serious problem for a freezer, a freezer that doesn’t freeze is not a good thing.\u00a0 So I rang our local refrigeration engineer. John Mazur in Moreton in Marsh<\/a> has been very helpful in the past and proved to be very helpful this time too.\u00a0 He was able to solve the problem over the phone.<\/p>\n

It seems that there is a known problem with Whirlpool No Frost Freezers (or at least with some models).\u00a0 Although they are supposedly frost free and so should not require defrosting, they do clog up over a period (in our case about 14 months).\u00a0 The solution is simple, empty the freezer, leave the door open and then switch it off for a minimum of 24 hours.\u00a0 During this period it will defrost a little so leave a towel or drip tray under the spout at the bottom of the door.<\/p>\n

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Whirlpool No Frost Freezer temperature display<\/p><\/div>\n

After about 30 hours I switched the freezer back on and it came back down to the required temperature in another couple of hours, result! Thanks John!<\/p>\n

I hope that this information enables somebody else to save the call out charge for a refrigeration engineer too.\u00a0 But it does raise the question, if you have to defrost your Whirlpool No Frost freezer every year is it really a No Frost freezer? There isn’t a lot of ice to get rid of but you still have to go through the defrosting process.\u00a0 We paid a premium for a frost free freezer but now it seems we have to defrost it anyway,\u00a0 I think Whirlpool need to do a little work on this product range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a bit off topic for what is normally a blog devoted to life with computers and the internet but I thought it might be useful to somebody. We have a Whirlpool No Frost freezer which we bought a little over 1 year ago, so just out of warranty of course.\u00a0 We have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47,3,48],"tags":[140,50,52,141,53,49,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}