The second fridge
Albion Park is a town of family homes, many of them a few decades old, and a lot of those homes have two fridges: the main one in the kitchen and an older one in the garage or the shed for drinks, bait or overflow from the big shop. The garage fridge is usually the one that fails first. It sits in a space that gets far hotter than the kitchen in summer and colder in winter, it collects dust and cobwebs on its coils and its door seal dries out.
When a garage fridge stops keeping things cold, check the coils, the seal and that the vents inside are not blocked by packed shelves. If it is still warm after that, an assessment will tell you whether it is worth fixing.
The kitchen fridge
In the newer homes at Calderwood and Tullimbar the main fridge is often a large French-door or side-by-side model with a water dispenser. The faults we see are an evaporator fan that has failed, a defrost system that has stopped and iced up the coil behind the freezer, water lines that freeze, and control boards that show an error. All are repaired at home.
Hot days
Albion Park sits back from the coast in the valley below the escarpment, and on hot days it can be warmer than the beaches a few kilometres away. That is when tired fridges give out. A fridge that copes in spring but cannot hold temperature in a heatwave usually has dusty coils, a weak condenser fan or a seal that lets warm air in, and all three are worth fixing before the next hot spell.
Booking
The assessment for Albion Park is $125. Fridges are prioritised because of the food inside, so ring in the morning if you can.
