Squirt - my Queen has crossed The Bridge

Aw, thanks but we will be ok. I have family/friends who will let me store food stuffs and access to get it when needed. And I have my two friends who know a bit about this sort of stuff who will help me with labor costs if repair is needed and feasible. If it turns out to be too expensive or not worth fixing, I have the winter to save for one of those little dorm room fridges. I'm a tough old broad who has faced much worse and may again...I just like to moan and wail from time to time. :D;) It just makes me so mad that these appliances are so cheap. The dishwasher has never worked right - the top rack gets wet, no soap at all, and doesn't dry and three different repairmen could not figure out why other than it's a GE. But it makes an excellent dish drain! The microwave either overheats or doesn't heat at all about 80% of the time. So far, the stove and oven are working just fine, tho. All are less than 2 years old and have only been in use since last May. ;)

I have a small ice chest and have put a days' worth of Squirt's feed and lunchmeat for two meals in it tonite. Along with the grapes....I may need their comfort again tonite! :p But it will be enough to keep Squirt's food day by day - the rest is stored at a friends' house down the road. Her food is my main concern. ;)

I know exactly what you mean by GE appliances. I have already replaced my dishwasher that was only 6 yrs old and after only 3 yrs the compressor on my fridge went. I could have almost bought a new one for the cost of that repair. My stove has never worked right either.

Not a good day for us here with Keesh. Nothing major just a day that I could have done without.

Glad Squirt is fine... had to laugh about your posture when you woke up. You are a funny lady.

So, the refrigerator/freezer is not working at all Leslie? You said the temperature was dropping this morning, after it had thawed yesterday, so I'm wondering what it's doing now.

How much would a second hand refrigerator cost? Does your landlord supply the appliances or was that left to you?

How very aggravating the whole thing is.

We have a GE side by side, with a water/ice dispenser on it. We've replaced a part in the back of the the thing twice so far, where the line comes into the frig that just breaks, some plastic part, that cost a fortune if you have a guy come out to fix it and about 20 bucks for the part if my husband goes and picks it up and does the work himself. Needless to say, my husband does it himself. But it's aggravating, as there is no good reason that it keeps breaking. We won't even talk about the rigging we did inside to keep the ice bucket from popping out of place, but it involves styrofoam fitted on the inside of the door, attached and that keeps the bucket from popping out every time someone gets ice. Again, no logical reasoning, other than bad design. *sigh* I'll never get another GE appliance either. :mad:

I'm glad you have Squirts food safe in a cooler. Hope you managed to put some for yourself in there too. ;)

It's good to have friends and family to help out.

Hoping for a better tomorrow!
hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin

I didn't thaw it yesterday; after cleaning the coil thing the temps started dropping so I didn't unplug it. It dropped more overnight but as today wore on, the temps started rising again so now it's unplugged. One of the guys helping me said GE has a glitch in the defrost default and they will just decide not to cycle and freeze up. He said every GE freezer he'd seen did this same thing so we're hoping this will reset the default and it will work right. I plan to plug it back in late tonite so tomorrow should tell the tale. If the temps don't stay cool enough, one of them will have to come look and see if the motherboard needs replacing...or if the compressor is not working right. I may have messed it up royally by not knowing to clean that coil thing. :rolleyes: But the fan blades on the coil were working and cool air was blowing inside - it was still starting to warm up, tho.

The house is mine, I don't rent it, just the lot it sits on. The appliances all came with the house except the washer and dryer - and I bought good old Whirlpool machines when I got the house. ;) I've got a call into the landlady just in case this thing is under warranty but I seriously doubt it. The house was bought "as is" which I'm sure includes the appliances that were in it. BTW - the folks I bought the house from have the mobile home venue sown up! They sell houses, have this park for the houses (any house, not just those they sell), they have a mobile home moving service, mobile home leveling service, mobile home repair service, and a mobile home supply store! The whole family is involved, too.

One good thing about all this - this thing will be squeaky clean soon! :p

Wow, they do have the market sown up there. Nothing they can't do with a mobile home.

Well, I'd hoped you were renting and then the lady lady would replace it, but that won't work it you own it.
Good and bad of home ownership in a nutshell there. :)

Hopefully it will recycle and the defrost will kick in and it will all just work again. We'll go with optimistic, after all it's so nice and clean, be a shame if it doesn't start working and waste all that cleanliness. hehehe

hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin

I, too, try to fix what I can as the prices for a repair man is so costly.

Last month my washer stopped agitating, I googled the problem and found that the coupling was probably the problem. I found a video on line that showed me how to replace the coupling, the coupling was only $5.00 from an appliance website!! And it fixed my 17 year old washer!! Made me so happy that I didn't have to buy a new washer as of yet!!

Awesome Lori!! Good job. It's horrible how much the repairmen charge for their time and the parts always seem to be more expensive too than what you can find online.

Today we replaced outside vet covers, that was fun (not) it was rainy, muddy and found 2 wasp nests in one of them but in the end, mission accomplished and all it cost was the price of the vent covers from Home Depot. Needed those to be done though before winter and cleaned out the dryer vent cover so no worries there either.

We are an amazing bunch on here :)

hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin

Leslie:
I am hoping that this morning finds you with a working refrigerator. I look a lot of things up on line like Lori, but sometimes it is way over my head to fix whatever. It is a shame these repairman are so expensive. I saw where some tornado activity was to be going on down south. Have you had any wind, or storms yesterday or today? We got a lot of wind yesterday, and then the rain last nite. Hoping you and Squirt had a good nite, and that you were not holding the grapes this morning! Blessings
Patti

When I dismantled the fridge to clean all the shelves and drawers, I noticed that little Styrofoam thing you were talking about, Sharlene. I don't use the door feature for water or ice, nor the ice maker - I have a hang-up about that; I've seen those tubes come out to be replaced that were solid pink with mold and just can't use the door vendor. :o Plus that increases electricity and water costs. So I never had that hooked up. I have a "thing" about plumbing - I can work right beside you laying new pipe in a new home but once water has touched any of those pipes, I'm done. I'll puke my head off after that if I touch the pipes. :o:rolleyes:

Around midnight I went to plug in back in and noticed more water coming out of it so I left it unplugged overnight with the doors open just to make sure it is all thawed out. I plugged it back in about an hour ago so now we wait and see what happens!

We didn't have any storms here, in fact have had some lovely days and wonderful cool nights in the 50's! Squirt and I both love this kind of weather and always feel energized. She has had good days and restful nights so I am pleased as punch. She's walking and sitting more normally this morning so I guess that itchy stubble phase on her commando cut is better. :p