Learned a lesson on a fridge call in Phoenix last week

I was working on an older Samsung fridge in Phoenix and the compressor was cycling weird. Turns out the condenser coils were caked with dust from being outside on a patio. Has anyone else seen units get wrecked faster in dusty climates like that?

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the_henry15d ago

...and that's exactly why I tell people to pull those fridges out from under the counter at least twice a year. I had a neighbor with a similar setup, same heat and dust out in the suburbs of Phoenix, and his compressor died completely after about three years. The coils were so clogged you could barely see the copper underneath. He ended up just buying a new fridge because the repair was almost half the cost. So yeah, that patio life is rough on appliances for sure.

tyler36814d ago

Add a yearly coil cleaning to that too lol. I lived in Arizona for a few years and the dust is just insane. You could wipe down a shelf and have a layer of fine dirt back on it within a few days. Those fridge coils act like a filter for all that junk floating around. So even if you pull it out twice a year, you gotta hit the coils with a brush or compressed air to actually get the dust out. Otherwise it just cakes on and traps the heat. Out in that dry heat, a fridge basically works twice as hard just to stay cool. Its honestly a wonder any of them last more than a couple years out there.