Caring For Your Refrigerator
Vacation and moving care Power intermptions
Short vacations If electricity goes off, call the power company. Ask
No need to shut off the refrigerator if you will be how long power will be off.
away for less than four weeks. Use up perisha-
bles; freeze other items. If your refrigerator is 1. If service is to be interrupted 24 hours or less,
equipped with an automatic ice maker: keep both doors closed. This will help
1. Turn it off. frozen food stay frozen.
2. Shut off the water supply to the ice maker. 2. If service is to be interrupted longer than
24 hours:
3. Empty the ice bin.
(a) Remove all frozen food and store in a frozen
Long vacations food locker.
Remove all the food if you are going for a month or OR
more. If your refrigerator is equipped with an auto- (b) Place 2 Ibs. (0.9 kg) of dry ice in freezer for
matic ice maker, turn off the water supply to the ice every cu. ft. of freezer space. This will keep
maker at least a day ahead. When the last load of food frozen for 2 to 4 days. Wear gloves to
ice drops, turn off the ice maker. protect your hands from dry ice burns.
Unplug the refrigerator and clean it.. .rinse well (c) If neither food locker storage nor dry ice
and dry. Tape rubber or wood blocks to the top of is available, use or can perishable food
both doors.. . keeping them open far enough at once.
for air to get in. This will keep odor and mold from
building up. 3. A full freezer will stay cold longer than a partly
filled one. A freezer full of meat will stay cold
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, dispose of it.
Do not allow children near the refrigerator
when the doors are blocked open. They may Questions?
become injured or trapped.
Call your COOL-LINE@ service assistance
telephone number. (See page 11.)
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. Disconnect 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 legs (for model ET14LC);
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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