My refrigerator keeps on running. it is about 5 years old. is something wrong?

Question

one night it ran from 4 pm until midnight. today it was from 7 pm and still going. help someone. I did call the landlord and he was no help.

Answer 1

I will give you one answer.......have you cleaned out under....... and also the back...........use a vaccum cleaner and suck all the dust off of both..............hope it works

Answer 2

you better go catch it..... sorry

Answer 3

call to proffesionals

Answer 4

There are a few reasons why refrigerators run for extended periods. 1) Ambient temperature. In high temp/high humidity conditions (summer), every time you open the doors, you exchange cold conditions for hot in the ref, in addition to drawing humidity in which causes condensation which puts more load on the unit to cool, and keep running. 2) Seals could be worn, do the dollar bill test on the door seals, especially on the hinge side. If the doors seals stick spray them with silicone to free them up. The seals have to be pretty bad to make the ref run too long. 3) The ref could be enclosed too tightly in its opening. You need some space in the rear of the unit for air circulation. If there's no circulation, it will cause poor performance for the unit and it will run a long time. 4) The condenser coils on the bottom of the ref are plugged with dust. Again with the air circulation, dust will insulate the coils and prevent the condenser from cooling This is the most common cause of continuous running. Pull the bottom grill off front of the ref and look in side with a flash light. Don't stick anything in there, like hands, the condenser fan is running and will hurt you, plus the coils are hot. If the coils (long black flat rows of pipes) are dusty you need to get the dust out of there, you can buy a condenser brush just for cleaning coils or try to suck it out with a vacuum. To do a thorough job you need to pull ref away from the wall to get behind it. Remove the service panel in the back and get all the dust and c**p out. You should unplug the unit before doing this of course. Service calls are big $$$ so you everything you can before calling one in. Good luck.

Answer 5

I agree w/chopsaw.  I'd take a look at it and try to clean up/tune up what you can.  That might help.  It depends how old it is.  Maybe the company has some information on that model.