- Completed
- September 2026
- Where
- Santa Monica
- Model
- KF 1813 Vi, built-in bottom-freezer
- Booking to finish
- About two weeks
- Invoice
- About $1,075
A loud noise, then no cooling. The freezer coil was a block of ice.
The owner’s words at booking: the refrigerator made a loud noise and stopped cooling after it. With the freezer emptied and its back cover off, the evaporator coil was packed solid with frost and ice. A coil in that state cannot pass air, so the cold has nowhere to go.
The parts list in our notes is all on the defrost side: the defrost heater, a 115-volt, 30-inch heater bank, the bottom insulating piece and the temperature limiter, with the drain line cleaned at the same time. The job was booked in late August and completed on 11 September. Our notes do not say what made the noise, so we are not going to guess here.













