Fridge advice please!

My fridge has gone on the blink! the light still comes on and when i open it it makes a long hissing noise but it doesn't cool anything any more.

Can someone tell me whats wrong with it or someone who can fix it for me not too expensively?

Les

It sounds as if it needs regassing, and you of course will need a refrigeration engineer for that.try Yellow pages and pray..lol

Cheers Owd. What the heck is regassing? . . and is it expensive? The weird thing is, the freezer below it works fine!?

Re-gassing is recharging the coolant circuit with refrigerant gas. It's more expensive than it used to be because for older fridges the gas has to be bled off and stored rather than released in to the atmospehere, as the older refrigerants were greenhouse gases (Freons, etc.)

Gradual leakage of the gas would cause a gradual degradation in efficiency, rather than a sudden failuer. Do the pipes / grill on the back still get warm?

Check that the thermostat is working as well.

Reason why the freezer part might work is that the cooling systems can be isolated form each other.

Joe

Thanks Joe you beat me to it. Oh and by the way I passed through your old home town today Joe .....still the same old place.lol.

Cheers guy's! sounds abit too technical for me to do - will try and find someone for it tmrw.

get a new second hand one, probably cheaper!

I bought one off here Les and saved around £100 on a new fridge freezer.

http://www.clearance-comet.co.uk/

Originally posted by owdlad

Thanks Joe you beat me to it. Oh and by the way I passed through your old home town today Joe .....still the same old place.lol.

Warsop?

Wow! I've not been back there for a while....

I can't say that I miss it, though I used to get a little something stirring inside when I drove towards Warsop down the A60(?) from Worksop, and saw the place spread out below me.

I did lock the car doors though...lol. then came back through Sookholme Lane into Shirebrook.....jeeez I must be getting brave in my old age.

You mean you got out in Warsop?

Jeez..... ;-)

Is 'Sookholme Docks' still there - I used to visit the ponds there when I was a kid on my bike - lots of newts and stuff there. Great fun!

Joe

Hi Joe

I don't know about Sookholme Docks I go occasionally to Joules farm on the corner so I will ask Mick the next time I am down that way.