Just thought I'd share a solution to a problem we've had with the above frost-free freezer...
After a years use, one day we saw the temp start to rise (it has an LED display). Just outside the warranty, we were pretty ****ed so called the company we got it from who were useless. While we were deciding what to do (I hate calling people out to fix things before I've had a bash myself), we moved all the food over to our other freezer and turned it off. Low an behold, when I turned it on a couple of days later, it got down to temp fine and stayed there.
A few months later it happened again so I attacked it with a hairdryer to give it a quick de-frost. Job done...or so I thought....
It started to happen on a regular basis so the other day I decided to take off the panel at the back (on the inside), you'll need a 7mm, thin walled socket, and found why... ice had collected and built up behind the panel in a drainage recess. After an hour or so of hairdryer action (be careful not to melt anything or electrocute yourself!), I could finally see the drainage hole which leads to a little rubber tube at the back of the freezer, above a plastic condenser tray on stop of the compressor. The tube was a little blocked, not massively but obviously enough to cause it to stop draining and start collecting in the freezer.
So to re-cap, remove the inner back panel, defrost, unclog the drainage hole and you should be fine
Warning signs of this issue seem to be ice streaks forming at the lower, back part of the freezer, emanating from behind the inner back panel.
After a years use, one day we saw the temp start to rise (it has an LED display). Just outside the warranty, we were pretty ****ed so called the company we got it from who were useless. While we were deciding what to do (I hate calling people out to fix things before I've had a bash myself), we moved all the food over to our other freezer and turned it off. Low an behold, when I turned it on a couple of days later, it got down to temp fine and stayed there.
A few months later it happened again so I attacked it with a hairdryer to give it a quick de-frost. Job done...or so I thought....
It started to happen on a regular basis so the other day I decided to take off the panel at the back (on the inside), you'll need a 7mm, thin walled socket, and found why... ice had collected and built up behind the panel in a drainage recess. After an hour or so of hairdryer action (be careful not to melt anything or electrocute yourself!), I could finally see the drainage hole which leads to a little rubber tube at the back of the freezer, above a plastic condenser tray on stop of the compressor. The tube was a little blocked, not massively but obviously enough to cause it to stop draining and start collecting in the freezer.
So to re-cap, remove the inner back panel, defrost, unclog the drainage hole and you should be fine
Warning signs of this issue seem to be ice streaks forming at the lower, back part of the freezer, emanating from behind the inner back panel.
