The DIY thread - DIYourself

gmb3 said:
Would like to do the same with mine but wifey won't let me. My ice maker hasn't worked in years (i think because it's frozen solid) but wifey keeps going to the supermarket and Costco 3x per week and loading up the freezer and i don't want to waste food. Maybe during the holidays i can convince her to have a "feast" (aka a freezer cleanout meal).
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Our ice maker didn't work for years. I'm sure I spent more than the cost of a new refrigerator on buying bags of ice to use. Finally got a new refrigerator and forgot how practical that is.
 
Santapez said:
Between the overlaps happening on the studs along with paint afterwards in the tight seems, it's surprising how sealed they are. If anything I could put some rubber weatherstripping or something similar on the studs that the edge of the paneling nails to.

I thought about drywall for a hot minute but the window and door casing is setup right now for the thickness of wood paneling. Plus wood paneling is 10x easier to work with.

I'm looking to tear off one wall this weekend, just want to make sure there isn't any gotchas I haven't thought about.
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Late to this, but sometimes it's required to install drywall under wood paneling for fire resistance. Depends on local code and flame spread rating of the paneling. Padding out trim to accommodate the different wall thickness is a bit of a pain, but not that hard to do. Rip a bunch of 3/4 pine. You can pre-paint it before you nail it up.
 
Red Mosquito said:
View attachment 273472The freezer has been struggling to keep up lately. I noticed this week that the bottom drawer wasn’t sealing all the way. Been there with this unit, I figured there was ice built up along the seal somewhere.

This morning when I started looking, I realized some bread that was in the bottom of the drawer was totally soft. So, wound up tossing pretty much everything in the freezer including a bunch of meat which is really disappointing. Decided to let it defrost and see how that goes.

Turns out that the entire bottom of the freezer was a solid sheet of ice. I’m hoping it’s not from the ice maker/ water dispenser…

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Like literally the same fridge.

Got this one during covid after a windstorm surged the power and fried the Viking branded fridge we had which I wasn’t so sad to see that one go. Lucky for me homeowners insurance covered it.

Haven’t had that issue with it the only complaint really is the water dispenser button broke like 3 weeks after we got it so if you’re not careful it gets stuck.


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iman29 said:
Like literally the same fridge.
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It’s been trouble-free until now. Got ours January 2017 during an unplanned kitchen tear-down. Posts are tin this thread somewhere, I’ll dig them up later if I get bored.

Turns out @qclabrat was right, it was a clogged drain. Thanks Walter! So, a bit of scope creep on this project lol first YouTube result was exactly what I needed thankfully. You can’t tell from the 3rd pic but that whole tray was filled with water, too bad I did t get to it while it was still ice. That little fuzzball in the bottom of the soup container was the root of it all, barely a clog it seemed!

Now all that’s left is a deep clean of the shelves since it’s empty.
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Here’s the YouTube link for Ian when the day comes. Alternatively, pull it out every now and again and vacuum the dust off the back cover and hopefully avoid the whole issue.


 
Red Mosquito said:
It’s been trouble-free until now. Got ours January 2017 during an unplanned kitchen tear-down. Posts are tin this thread somewhere, I’ll dig them up later if I get bored.

Turns out @qclabrat was right, it was a clogged drain. Thanks Walter! So, a bit of scope creep on this project lol first YouTube result was exactly what I needed thankfully. You can’t tell from the 3rd pic but that whole tray was filled with water, too bad I did t get to it while it was still ice. That little fuzzball in the bottom of the soup container was the root of it all, barely a clog it seemed!

Now all that’s left is a deep clean of the shelves since it’s empty.
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Here’s the YouTube link for Ian when the day comes. Alternatively, pull it out every now and again and vacuum the dust off the back cover and hopefully avoid the whole issue.


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Video saved in my YT favorites thx
 
Pulled the rear cover off the fridge again to make sure the condenser fan was spinning (it was). I also did an extra thorough vacuuming of the coils, and spotted some additional vents I missed yesterday that were clogged with dust.

One other possibility is that one of the evaporator fans is shot, or maybe a wire got caught up in one of the blades. I noticed a bit of extra slack in them as I put it back together and almost did something about it. I’ll check on that tomorrow if there’s no more improvement.

Otherwise, it’s probably a failing compressor.
 
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