Fridge not cold but freezer working

Repair Experts With Solutions For All Budgets. The evaporator fan motor draws cold air over the evaporator coils and circulates it throughout the freezer. If the evaporator fan is not working , the freezer or refrigerator will not cool adequately. Freezer very cold (compressor working hard), Fridge warm.

Cause: Water not draining away from internal drip tray after defrost cycle due to blockage. There are several variables to a warm fridge and a cold freezer scenario, but these are some of the more common problems you may encounter with yours.

How to fix a warm fridge cold freezer. Why Your Freezer is Cold but Fridge is Warm 1. The Evaporator Coils have too much frost on them. When the evaporator coils frost over, air can not easily pass through and get cold. First manually defrost the coils by applying hot air to them with a hair dryer.

Afterwards, let your fridge continue to run normally. If the refrigerator freezer is cold but the refrigerator is warm, the defrost thermostat might be defective. Several times a day the defrost heater turns on for a few minutes to melt away any frost that may have accumulated on the evaporator coils.

In order for this to work , the defrost thermostat has to sense that the coils are cold enough. If I unplug my refrigerator and plug it back in, the fan in the freezer comes on but then immediately goes back off. Refrigerator is warm but Freezer is working. We will list the parts that are most likely causing your fridge is warm but freezer is cold working issue. When the refrigerator freezer is cold but the refrigerator is warm, you will need to check or test each part listed in the order from first part being most likely the cause.

My Amana fridge is not staying cold , but the freezer is fine. Fan in freezer is working and some airflow is making it to the fridge , but only slightly. When I open the freezer door, the airflow into the fridge improves to a level where I would expect it to be.

My amana freezer and fridge stop getting cold. Then, IF the fan is working , check the duct work which allows the fan to blow the cold freezer air into the fridge part. I had a small pack of meat get into my duct work once causing this same problem with a top freezer unit.

If the condenser fan is not working , both the refrigerator and freezer will not cool properly. The Freezer side seems to work fine- goes to whatever I set it at (usually about -to degrees F). If your freezer is too warm to keep the ice cream firmly frozen and you see lots of frost inside the entire freezer compartment, then warm, moist air may be. Wherever You Bought Your Fridge , We’ll Fix It. There is a fan that moves the cold air aroun you normally hear.

I see frost in the back of the freezer at the vents, but no air.

This problem is usually a result of a freon issue. Basically what is happening here is the evaporator inside the freezer is not completely frosted over. When a refrigerator unit seems to still be cold in the freezer , but not cold enough or not cold at all in the FFC, its ALWAYS going to be caused by lack of air flow.

But as you can see, there are a few things that can cause that lack of air flow. You can usually check this by removing an access panel in the back of the freezer to inspect the coils. If ice is built up on the coils, a hairdryer can assist in defrosting them.

All of the cooling in refrigerators is normally done in the freezer compartment. A fan circulates cold air from the freezer into the refrigerator compartment to cool it. If it’s the former, then not enough cold air is getting to the refrigerator box from the freezer compartment. There’s a baffle in these types of units that can be adjusted to change the amount of cold air that enters that part, so that could be broken.

Directions to help you find the fault and replacing a fridge freezer defrost heater. This video can be used on all these makes. AEG SANTO Fridge Freezer with the fridge not cold. The refrigerator is degrees and will not get any colder. The freezer is working good.

The vents between the freezer and refrigerating section blow cold air from the freezer across to the refrigerator. Why is my Kenmore refrigerator not making ice? If these vents are clogged with ice, the air is blocked and the refrigerator does not cool down.

If this is the case, you can unplug the refrigerator , wait for the ice to melt and then connect it back to the power supply. The cooling fins in the fridge are not cold at all. He did a cleaning and should be OK now, but it is not.

I have a Kenmore fridge with the bottom freezer. It has been working just fine. Again, back in February, fridge stopped working again, and I took off the freezer section which blows cold air into the fridge , completely took off the fridge section exposing the thermostat in the fridge , it was left for couple of days (i think), and it started geting cold again, but then again, it gets too cold in the fridge and things.

And yet, everything appears to be working as usual. Or, you turn down the temperature all the way, then you wait. Something happened like this to us when we rented a condo during the summer. We called the owners of the condo and they sent a repair man out.

It needed a new thermostat. It was fine last night, but this morning we noticed the leaky water from the freezer thawing. Then eventually the freezer will start to not get cold. Start out with the easy stuff first.

Check to make sure the evaporator fan in the freezer is working , this fan blows the. If not the damper or the thermostats are bad.