I put the food from my freezer in my fridge and left the door shut. hopefully because it has only taken about an hour the food should still be frozen. wish me luck
@@phillip5735 Thanks Phil. Please let me know how you get on. I thought of doing the same. Our big fridge went wrong and it took over 2 weeks to get it fixed in the summer, so we bought a small fridge too, so we have plenty of fridge space. Our freezer is pretty badly iced so will take a while to defrost.
Every time I do this, I panic because it takes so long to freeze back up or for the pipes to cool at all in the freezer. I've got mad skills at breaking everything, but the defrost was business as usual, aside from the insane frost buildup in the rapid-freeze compartment. Good lord, the super-freeze thing on some models, with the downwards opening flap cover (which broke off because of a careless closing of the freezer of course) builds up 5mm of ice in the first 3 weeks after a defrost. I honestly despise the design and how it's practically impossible to just replace the hinges for the flap because they attach to the pipes.. My old fridge was fine with 0 maintenance for 15 years, and it was built in a way that the small things were easily user fixable. :( Yay for consumerism-driven design and throwaway products. I wonder how many people have also broken off the horrid flap drawer and are stuck with a slab of ice that looks like it'll kill the freezer any moment or following a monthly defrosting according to 5mm protocol. :(
So the freezer is always on, there's no way to regulate what temp is in it and the only way to defrost is by killing the power for the entire kitchen for a couple of hours? SOUNDS GREAT
I did that the first time because I didn't realize that the power cord on these things (new-ish indesit at least) is a very reasonable length. If it's sunken into a space in your kitchen, just pull he whole fridge out (carefully nonetheless) from the recess and disconnect the wall plug once you can reach it. If it's a different kind of fridge, this might not be the case, my old fridge had a cable so short it would barely make it up to the plug, now that was annoying...
INDESIT IBD5517S 50/50 Fridge Freezer - Silver, Looks great, but regret the perches, 1: Makes a crying sound, We were told its normal 2: Its not normal, ( Iv Developed and managed 600+ apartments over the years) 3: Customer service is just a brick wall to stop any further action. 4: They tell you that if the engineer cannot fix or is not fault they will charge you 58 pounds! 5: This is wrong and probably scares off vulnerable or older couples on a tight budget. 6: 10 year warranty on parts, but was told that 174 pound an hour for labor, Cost 229 New) 7: finish quality is low, joints do not line up. (Like Its Been Dropped) I will do a video review so you can see and heard.
Our 4.5 year old 6ft Indesit fridge died - I'd signed up for the 10 year parts guarantee so phoned Indesit service. Was put through to an insurance company who tried to stitch us up for various maintainance contracts. Best of a bad bunch was the 6 month warranty for £120.01 including the repair. Engineer turned up as promised - compressor had shorted out due to water landing on it from the drain tube, as the tray to catch the water had not been fixed in place from new. Since it had ran OK for over 4 years, Indesit wouldn't accet responsibility. The engineer didn't have the correct compressor with him, so it had to be ordered. A week later, engineer turned up again (on time, with the parts), it took him 1.5 hours to fit the new unit & test, but he was a nice guy and did a good job. Having done some research since, the basic compressor is £97.00, without the fitting kit & electrical bits that the engineer had in his compressor box, so I reckon we didn't do too bad. Two call outs, 2.5 hours of labour, £97 worth of compressor + what ever the extra electrical & plumbing parts, and the gas to recharge the system, for £120. It's a shame I can't relate the same story for our 24 month old Hoover oven which recently went wrong. Again, Hoover use Domestic & Geneal insurance, the same as Indesit, and the cost of the insurance to get an engineer out was quoted as more than the new cost of the oven.
And now for the $64 dollar question - if your freezer is full of food & badly needs defrosting, what do you do with the food in the meantime?
I put the food from my freezer in my fridge and left the door shut. hopefully because it has only taken about an hour the food should still be frozen. wish me luck
@@phillip5735 Thanks Phil. Please let me know how you get on. I thought of doing the same. Our big fridge went wrong and it took over 2 weeks to get it fixed in the summer, so we bought a small fridge too, so we have plenty of fridge space. Our freezer is pretty badly iced so will take a while to defrost.
Every time I do this, I panic because it takes so long to freeze back up or for the pipes to cool at all in the freezer. I've got mad skills at breaking everything, but the defrost was business as usual, aside from the insane frost buildup in the rapid-freeze compartment.
Good lord, the super-freeze thing on some models, with the downwards opening flap cover (which broke off because of a careless closing of the freezer of course) builds up 5mm of ice in the first 3 weeks after a defrost. I honestly despise the design and how it's practically impossible to just replace the hinges for the flap because they attach to the pipes.. My old fridge was fine with 0 maintenance for 15 years, and it was built in a way that the small things were easily user fixable. :( Yay for consumerism-driven design and throwaway products. I wonder how many people have also broken off the horrid flap drawer and are stuck with a slab of ice that looks like it'll kill the freezer any moment or following a monthly defrosting according to 5mm protocol. :(
Hi there. Any issue why I have frozen droplets at the back of my new indesit integrated fridge freezer ??
I use a steam cleaner, for my fridges an freezer with a large bowl.
Much quicker an centralised.
my fridge is freezing my food. even though it has a defrost function. please help urgently. ive checked the door, it seems to seal fine.
Indesit is the best .
So the freezer is always on, there's no way to regulate what temp is in it and the only way to defrost is by killing the power for the entire kitchen for a couple of hours? SOUNDS GREAT
where does it say the entire kitchen?
you pull the plug out for the fridge freezer and that's it.
I did that the first time because I didn't realize that the power cord on these things (new-ish indesit at least) is a very reasonable length. If it's sunken into a space in your kitchen, just pull he whole fridge out (carefully nonetheless) from the recess and disconnect the wall plug once you can reach it. If it's a different kind of fridge, this might not be the case, my old fridge had a cable so short it would barely make it up to the plug, now that was annoying...
@@inconspicuous-nobody turns out the dial in the fridge controls both compartments so I just turned it down to zero and out our a bucket.
INDESIT IBD5517S 50/50 Fridge Freezer - Silver, Looks great, but regret the perches,
1: Makes a crying sound, We were told its normal
2: Its not normal, ( Iv Developed and managed 600+ apartments over the years)
3: Customer service is just a brick wall to stop any further action.
4: They tell you that if the engineer cannot fix or is not fault they will charge you 58 pounds!
5: This is wrong and probably scares off vulnerable or older couples on a tight budget.
6: 10 year warranty on parts, but was told that 174 pound an hour for labor, Cost 229 New)
7: finish quality is low, joints do not line up. (Like Its Been Dropped)
I will do a video review so you can see and heard.
Our 4.5 year old 6ft Indesit fridge died - I'd signed up for the 10 year parts guarantee so phoned Indesit service. Was put through to an insurance company who tried to stitch us up for various maintainance contracts. Best of a bad bunch was the 6 month warranty for £120.01 including the repair. Engineer turned up as promised - compressor had shorted out due to water landing on it from the drain tube, as the tray to catch the water had not been fixed in place from new. Since it had ran OK for over 4 years, Indesit wouldn't accet responsibility. The engineer didn't have the correct compressor with him, so it had to be ordered. A week later, engineer turned up again (on time, with the parts), it took him 1.5 hours to fit the new unit & test, but he was a nice guy and did a good job. Having done some research since, the basic compressor is £97.00, without the fitting kit & electrical bits that the engineer had in his compressor box, so I reckon we didn't do too bad. Two call outs, 2.5 hours of labour, £97 worth of compressor + what ever the extra electrical & plumbing parts, and the gas to recharge the system, for £120.
It's a shame I can't relate the same story for our 24 month old Hoover oven which recently went wrong. Again, Hoover use Domestic & Geneal insurance, the same as Indesit, and the cost of the insurance to get an engineer out was quoted as more than the new cost of the oven.
I can’t believe he put boiling water in it I just got a new Indesit freezer and it says not to do that.