My Wonder Spouse is great at fixing and assembling and installing things around the house, especially things electrical like televisions and soundbars. He is an Electrical Engineer after all. Today he rose to the occasion once again. For the last few weeks we've noticed that the refrigerator was not keeping food as cold as it should be. After several adjustments to the thermostat and having two different gallons of milk go bad well before their expiration dates, he decided it was time to look into the problem more deeply and that today was the day to tackle the job. The refrigerator is only eight years old so he assumed it was fixable. First he did his internet research, printed out everything he needed to know for trouble shooting, then went to work. I wisely stayed out of his way. He pulled a grill off the bottom of the refrigerator, cleaned and vacuumed it and found a copy of the same information that he had downloaded sealed in a zip lock bag behind the grill. and, now armed with two copies of the same information, got to work on the trouble shooting. He followed the directions carefully for the nine steps involved. As he carefully looked at every suggested trouble spot he finally discovered that the vent that allowed cold air to come into the refrigerator from the evaporator coil was blocked. As soon as he removed the offending bag of almond flour that had gotten shoved up into that corner the problem was solved. Hooray for my WSEE.
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