About two weeks ago our refrigerator started to die. Our fridge has a digital display that shows the temperatures and I noticed that for the freezer it just wasn’t keeping up. Instead of the normal value of 0 it was hovering around 20. The fridge was marginally better but still warmer then it normally was.
After pulling it out and cleaning off all the components which didn’t help I called the repair guys who said that both the control board and the heater was bad. (I have to confess I didn’t realize that there was a heater in there but it’s used for the automatic defroster.) They had to order the parts and scheduled a time to come back and fix it. In between the two visits the fridge totally went out. One morning when we got up Jen found a huge puddle of water on the floor and it was almost at room temperature. All the meats and perishables had to be thrown out and anything we thought we could save went into the cooler.
When they came back to finish the repair they said that since the defroster had been broken for so long that we should leave the fridge off of at least another 48 hours to let the ice melt completely. Apparently it was at least an inch thick behind the freezer wall.
Every day since the repair was finished Andrew desperately asks if we have any milk so he can have “real” cereal for breakfast. Sadly, until this morning the answer was no.
Today he got up and was so excited that he was able to have his Cheerios with milk that he came back for a second bowl.
