The refrigerator is absolutely necessary in a home unit, because it allows you to store as semi-finished products, there and ready-made food, which greatly facilitates the life of housewives. And the situation when it breaks down and does not freeze the refrigerator, sometimes takes the scale of the disaster, especially if it happened in the summer heat. Before you panic and rush to the phone to call the master, try to determine the cause of the failure yourself. So, why not freeze the refrigerator?
The reasons why the refrigerator does not freeze
- If the refrigerator does not work, the first thing to do is to check whether it is connected to the network. There are situations when the plug falls out of the outlet, and the owner does not even guess about this and runs the risk of getting trapped and calling the master only to turn the refrigerator on.
- The refrigerator works, but does not freeze after defrosting . If the refrigerator is connected to the mains, the light is on, the compressor is buzzing, and you recently defrosted it and washed it, perhaps it's all about freon leakage. If the refrigerant leaks, the compressor will pump normal air, which does not really cool down, but also heats the interior of the refrigerator with the heat of the engine running. The cause of it may be a crack, which appeared as a result of inaccurate handling of the unit.
- The refrigerator is turned on, but not "noisy", that is, the compressor does not work. The causes of compressor failure can be voltage drops, overheating due to leakage of freon, work at maximum thermostat voltage. Most likely, the compressor will have to be changed.
- If you have a refrigerator with a no-frost system , it's possible that the fans responsible for defrosting the cooling radiator out of order and, as a consequence, the radiator has appeared in the ice.
- The thermostat has failed. To check, whether so it can the expert, having replaced on the working thermostat. Sometimes, a failed thermostat can be configured, in which case you can do without replacing it.
- The clogging of the freon transfer system - as a rule, is accompanied by specific, "gurgling" sounds. Such a malfunction is eliminated by pumping the system with a special hydraulic pump.
So, if your refrigerator breaks and does not freeze, make sure that it really failed. It is unlikely that you will be able to solve the malfunctions yourself, therefore, for diagnosis and repair, you should contact the workshop. Due to the size of the refrigerators are rarely transported for repair - specialists come to the house.