Integrated Fridge, ventilation.

[dantm]

Bear with me on this one…

I have an 12 year old Zanussi built in fridge in my house. I’ve always thought it looked badly fitted, and sure enough when I removed one of the plinths over the weekend, I found the motherload of trim pieces shoved under a cabinet, no doubt discarded long ago by some lazy fitter. I put all the trim in place, and, lo, it looks much better.

However… before fitting the trim, it seemed to happily vent fan-assisted hot air over the top of the fridge. This always seemed wrong, because every time I opened the fridge it filled with warm air. That gap is now blocked by trim, and the warm air seems to be being pushed out of a vent underneath the door, in front of the plinth, but at a much reduced rate. (there appears to be a cold air intake here as well, judging by the big lump of fluff I pulled out of it).

This all seems well and good, but now the fan seems to run constantly. I managed to find the manual and it says nothing about adding further ventilation, Any thoughts on this?

I’ve never had a fridge like this before, it seems very effective at warming up the kitchen with it’s effluent.

D.

[cockney steve]

Re: Integrated Fridge, ventilation.

yes, it will warm your kitchen 😀

The fridge is really just a box with a mechanism for pulling the heat from the inside and dumping it on the outside.

The less fluff and clutter underneath and the easier the warm air can escape from round the cabinet, the easier your fridge will work.

I’d suggest you re-open the vent above or arrange good airflow across the back of ajacent cabinets.

When you open the door, the cold air , being more dense than warm air, will “slump” out onto the floor, to be replaced by “warm” ambient air….you’ll get a bit of the heat from the vent, but AFAIK, the fan stops when you open the door, thus minimising the intake of hot air.

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