Caring For Your Refrigerator
Vacation and moving care Power interruptions
Short vacations If electricity goes off, call the power company.
Ask how long power will be off.
No need to shut off the refrigerator if you will be
away for less than four weeks. Use up perisha- 1. If service is to be interrupted 24.hours or IeSS.
keep both doors closed. This will help
bles; freeze other items. If your refrigerator is
equipped with an automatic ice maker: frozen food stay frozen.
2. If service is to be interrupted longer than
1. Turn off your ice maker by raising signal arm.
24 hours:
2. Shut off the water supply to the ice maker.
3. Empty the Ice bin. (a) Remove all frozen food and store in a
frozen food locker.
Long vacations OR
Remove all the food if you are going for a month or (b) Place 0.9 kg (2 Ibs.) of dry ice in freezer for
more. If your refrigerator is equipped with an auto- every cu. ft. of freezer space. This will keep
matic ice maker, turn off the water supply to the ice food frozen for 2 to 4 days. Wear gloves to
maker at least a day ahead. When the last ioad of protect your hands from dry ice burns.
ice drops, turn off the ice maker. (c) If neither food locker storage nor dry
Unplug the refrigerator and clean it...rinse well ice is available, use or can perishable
and dry. Tape rubber or wood blocks to the top of food at once.
both doors...keeprng them open far enough
for air to get in. This will keep odor and mold from 3. A full freezer will stay cold longer than a partly
filled one. A freezer full of meat will stay cold
building up. longer than a freezer full of baked goods. If food
contains ice crystals, It may be safely refrozen,
although the quality and flavor may be affected.
If the condition of the food is poor or if you feel it
Personal Injury Hazard is unsafe, drspose of it.
Do not allow children to climb on, play near
or climb inside the refrigerator when the
doors are blocked open. They may become
injured or trapped.
To restart refrigerator, see ?Using Your
Refrigerator? on page 5.
Moving
If your refrigerator is equipped with an automatic
ice maker, shut off the ice maker water supply a
day ahead of time. Drsconnect the water line. After
the last supply of ice drops, lift the signal arm to
turn off the ice maker.
Remove all food. Pack frozen food in dry ice.
Unplug the refrigerator and clean it thoroughly.
Take out all removable parts. Wrap all parts well
and tape them together so they don?t shift and
rattle.
Screw in the leveling rollers. Tape the doors shut
and tape the electric cord to the cabinet.
When you get to your new home, put everything
back and refer to page 4. Don?t forget to reconnect
the water supply line if you have an ice maker. |
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