When your refrigerator breaks down, you need top rated fridge repairs across Melbourne to come and help you out. Your home can’t do very long without a fridge now, can it? Plus, when it’s on the blink, the freezer unit will melt and potentially get water all over your kitchen floor. All the more reason to get it fixed, but in fact all the more reason to not let it break in the first place!
Also, commercial upright freezers are now a trend that makes your food fresh and safe.
If you want to keep your fridge in good order, here are some helpful tips on fridge care.
Tip 1: Regular Cleaning
At least once or twice a month, you’ll need to take everything out of the fridge so that you can give it a really good clean. Be sure to throw away or compost food items that you can’t put back because they’re expired or otherwise showing signs of turning. Wipe down all the surfaces, paying special attention to any caked-on mess or gunk. Use soap by all means, but avoid anything with harsh chemicals. You’re cleaning your food storage area. Everything needs to be food safe.
Here’s another pro tip to keep your fridge smelling fresh, which is to place some baking soda in a bowl or just in its box left open and sit that somewhere in the fridge. Baking soda has the rather useful property of absorbing odours. You can switch it out every month or so, or whenever you think the odour-eating effect has worn off.
Tip 2: Check and Reset the Temperatures
Dials and buttons regulating the temperature of the fridge can easily get knocked and moved in the normal course of taking things in and out of the fridge. That being so, make sure that your fridge and freezer compartments are at the right temperature according to the manufacturer’s own recommendations — see the manual. If you let the temperatures get out of whack, then it starts immediately to impact how effectively the fridge can keep food fresh.
Tip 3: Clean the Drip Pan and Door Gaskets
Another cleaning job to do is to clean the drip pan and door gaskets, but this one doesn’t need to be as frequent as cleaning the interior shelves. Every 2-3 months, you remove the drip pan carefully according to the instructions provided in your manual and wash it in warm soapy water. See if there are any signs of debris in the drainage hole and if you see any, remove it and clean the drainage hole thoroughly.
For the gaskets, vacuum them first to remove any signs of crumbs, pet hair and other debris. You can then do a close cleaning in every groove with a spare toothbrush dipped in warm soapy water. After a proper clean, you can rub petroleum jelly into the seals to give them a longer life.
Tip 4: Clean the Refrigerator Coils
A typical fridge has 2 sets of coils, one on the back and one on the interior. Their job collectively is to keep the interior of the fridge cool. The exterior coils expel heat, while the internal coils absorb interior heat. They only need cleaning about once every 6 months or so.
To clean them, unplug the fridge, move it out from the wall or cavity so you can locate the rear coils (condenser coils). You can use a coil brush to clean the exterior coils, as well as any grates or vents that are there. Accessing the interior ones may require a look at the manual, but the cleaning process is the same. Cleaning the coils will ensure your fridge works efficiently because when the coils get gunked up, the fridge has to use more energy and work harder to compensate.
