My fridge is starting to freeze food!

WantToBeSE

I have a fridge freezer and the fridge section has started to freeze stuff!
I have turned the control button down to just under 'medium' (was between med and max) but it's still doing it.

How can i fix it, or does it need replacing? I'd hate to get rid of it unless i had to.

Its an Indesit (not sure of the model number) and is about 6 years old.

DigForVictory

In the short term, move everything you were thinking of chopping up to the back & let it freeze. After an accident with a inadvertently frozen cabbage, it became the unacknowledged secret ingredient in my tomato & onion pasta sauce.
Medium term, what happens when you turn it to the least cool ("min"?)? As if it's still freezing things then, you may need to source an alternative fridge.

WantToBeSE

I am not sure what happens when i turn it down to min..thats my next move

DigForVictory

All the best! (Try atomised cabbage in a pasta sauce some time. It's a great way to sneak greens into the family diet!)

toffifee

Our fridge-freezer started freezing everything a few years ago. We had an insurance policy so someone came out to fix it - apparently some electronic bit needed to be replaced. The repairer said the part cost about £50. Might be worth calling a local engineer to see if it might be cost-effective to repair?
(Our repaired fridge-freezer is still working.)

MickMack

You could always try leaving the door open :-)

malc_b

Is this stuff in contact with the back? Is it frozen water?

Typically a fridge has a cold back panel. These frost up but the fridge runs a defrost cycle which melts the frost to water. This runs down the panel to troughs at the bottom then out a small hole to a dish on top of the compressor where it gets hot and evaporates. The little hole inside to outside often gets blocked the water over flows. Now you have water connecting food to the cold back panel so the food freezes where the water is.

If you have water or ice then the fix is to clear the hole with something blunt like a knitting needle.

Alternately is the freezer section iced up or does it have a bad seal? Maybe the fridge it really trying to keep the freezer cold but it is bleeding off into the fridge. Fridge-freezers usually have a single motor for both fridge and freezer these days.

WantToBeSE

No it's not just stuff that comes into contact with the back.

I have noticed for the last few months that in the freezer section the bottom drawer shelf has a lot of frozen water that i scrape out every few weeks. It's a no frost freezer, so this shouldnt happen, so could this be related?

Edwardia

My mother's fridge freezes but it's because she shoves everything but the kitchen sink in it and doesn't let the air circulate. Frozen Diet Coke anyone ?

Myser

Have you cleared the drain hole at the bottom of the fridge and checked at the back under the drain hole?

Try going through the troubleshooting on this website:

http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/help/fix-it-yourself/refrigeration-self-help/3713-fridge-freezer-fault-diagnosis-tool.html

ohreally

Single stat? Try a new one.