Call me Handy Corrina!

Okay, one of the worst things that can happen to you (well me) just before the holiday season is having your freezer break down. For some reason over the past week the alarm on our freezer kept going off and it got harder and harder to keep things as cold as they should be. Since we owned this freezer (it didn't come with the house), we had a couple of options. I tried calling around to a few repair places and all I got was an earful of we don't work with frost free freezers. We tried looking up ideas on the internet to what we could do since we couldn't find any service manual in the house. That was a dead end as well. Well my husband who must be superman actually got hold of a guy who told us to call another guy who told us that the type of freezer we had sometimes can build up ice. He said that you can't get into where it will be but if you unplug it for 3 days and put lots of towels down to sop up the water, we should be able to plug it back in and it will work again. Are you serious???? Well, I used up what I could in the freezer and then brought the rest over to Simon and Sarah's house to store for a bit.

That night I opened the door and lined the floor with towels. The next morning we noticed a little bit of water on the outside but then I looked inside. Under a little vent there was quite a bit and then I noticed some screws on a panel inside the freezer. I ran out to the garage, grab a screwdriver and went to work on this panel.

To my pleasant surprise (I guess), I found a huge block of ice built up that was blocking where the cold air circulated through the freezer. I ran upstairs and grabbed my blow dryer and let her rip. It took me about 5 minutes but I got the ice free, but then Kevin helped me get boiling water from the kettle to pour down the drain to unfreeze the coil. This was a horrible mess but after about an hour total of fidgeting, I had my freezer plugged back in and cooling back down...just in time for Thanksgiving!!!!