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Cleaning and Maintenance
5.4 What to do if...
The appliance does not work:
• Make sure that the appliance is
plugged in and that the main switch
is turned on.
The compressor starts to function too
often or functions continuously:
• The room temperature is too high.
• The door is being opened too often
or for too long.
• The door is not closing/sealing prop-
erly.
• The freezer is loaded with too many
fresh foods.
• Check that sufficient air can circulate
around the sensor on the right-hand
side of the refrigerator compartment.
• Check that the back of the freezer
is properly ventilated and that the
condenser is not too dirty.
Excessive ice or condensation has built
up inside the refrigerator compart-
ment:
• The door is being opened too often
or for too long.
• Hot foods have been placed inside
the refrigerator compartment.
• The foodstuffs or containers are in
contact with the rear wall.
• The door seal is damaged or dirty.
Clean or replace it.
The refrigerator compartment is not
sufficiently cold:
• The thermostat is set at too high a
temperature.
• The door is being opened too often
or for too long.
• The door is not closing/sealing prop-
erly.
• The room temperature is too high.
The temperature inside the refrigera-
tor compartment is too cold and the
foodstuffs are freezing:
• The thermostat is set at too low a
temperature.
• Food not contained in suitable con-
tainers or bags.
• Fruit and vegetables might be too
wet.
• Foodstuffs placed against the rear
wall of the refrigerator compartment.
Temperature inside freezer compart-
ment not low enough to freeze foods
properly:
• The thermostat is set at too high a
temperature.
• The door is being opened too often
or for too long.
• The door is not closing/sealing prop-
erly.
• The door seal is damaged or dirty.
Clean or replace it.
• The food to be frozen contains large
quantities of sugar.
Excessive ice has built up inside the
freezer compartment:
• The thermostat is set at too low a
temperature.
• The room temperature is too high.
• The door is being opened too often
or for too long.
• The door is not closing/sealing prop-
erly.
• The door seal is damaged or dirty.
Clean or replace it.
• Hot foods have been placed inside
the freezer compartment.
Doors are hard to open just after
closing:
• If you attempt to open the door again
just after closing it (especially the
freezer door), considerable strength
is required. This is due to the vacuum
created by the cooling of the warm
