hoover fridge

[marge]

Please help before my hair goes grey. I bought a Hoover larder fridge with drinks dispenser( 🙄 ) in November. I can’t seem to get the thing running right. Its set at 2 and a half but its freezing and really clogging with ice at the back, infact food is getting frozen too I’m having to defrost things when I take things out. Bottles of lemonade that are lying down are freezing if they are touching the back But if you turn the dial just slightly its starts defrosting and water is running on the floor. (laminate not good)
I got an engineer out and he changed the stat and it seemed to help for a few weeks but its now back to normal. What I’m asking is what else could it be or is this normal I had a frost free the last time and had no problems wish I’d stuck to them. Am I in my right to ask for a new fridge just because I don’t think its running right or do I keep having them come out and try and come up with ideas Thanks

[Dave_Conway]

Re: hoover fridge

This doesn’t sound correct to me at all marge, call them back to sort it 😉

Dave.

[jackfrost]

Re: hoover fridge

Hi madge
Dave is right call them back It seems to me that the thermostate range is two cold , and the water problem is because its to cold, and collecting more ice than it should, when defrosting the water is much for the water container to hold and overflows call them back and ask for a warmer setting thermostate
Jackfrost

[kwatt]

Re: hoover fridge

Hi Marge, I don’t know if it’s the same deal but since Hoover is really Candy refrigeration in disguise it likely is…

We used to get this all the time as agents, in fact we got sick of having to explain it and ask that the instruction manuals were changed for the UK.

Basically the Candy and Kelvinator fridge freezers had a thermostat in them that is designed to cope with ambient temperatures ranging from heated homes in Northern Europe to the Med. and North Africa in them, it does make a difference. In the UK when they were set above about “1” on the dial and sometimes less than that you’d get tomatoes like cannonballs as well as solid milk.

Yet the instruction manuals all said to set it between 2 and three! 😕

The thermostat numbering is there as a guide only, it does not generally dictate a set temperature, only an electronicially controlled fridge with a temperature display would do that and they’re a bit more costly.

I’m not saying that you do not have a fault, you may do, but it is worth trying the thermostat turned down lower first and see what happens as it’s often all that’s wrong.

Hope that helps.

K.

[marge]

Re: hoover fridge

Thanks for the replies,sorry Dave for some reason I had left a reply thanking you but it never came up I never thought to check.
Kwatt believe it or not a week ago I defrosted it there was four inches of ice on the back (that was only after 3 weeks since the last defrost)
but I decided this time to turn the dial to 1 to see what would happen, we have always thought it should be set to between 2 and 3 as any other fridge we’ve had and lo and behold touch wood so far no frost at back and the water is not coming past the first tray (there is a smaller tray then a bigger outside one) I have slightly turned it up because my husband thought it was not cool enough so now its at 1 and a half,so cheers guys I think its sorted but most annoying if thats what it is, my laminated floor was beginning to suffer. Marge :wave:

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