I need to know how to fix a sagging refrigerator door. This is looking really bad but I can’t find advice on how to fix it beyond replacing it.
Before you assume the refrigerator door is sagging, make sure the floor isn’t uneven.
That would be an even worse problem.
No, not if the issue is really an uneven set of supports, like the thing you put under the fridge’s right side to even it up on an uneven floor slipped out or is sliding down.
The floor was even when we put it in.
Any chance someone put one of those furniture moving things under it to move it to clean behind it or unplug it for a hard reboot and didn’t remove all of them?
Not at all.
Then you better tell your kids to stop hanging off the door literally, since they’ve bent the hinge.
I don’t think the hinge is bent.
If it is, the hinge can be replaced, though it takes some work. If you’re lucky, it is just loose and needs to be tightened.
That would be an ideal situation, since tightening it is something I could do myself.
Sometimes people think there is a sagging door when it is really dented unevenly, like after an impact. You can fix that by replacing the door panel.
No, it is actually sagging. The seal is uneven.
An uneven seal can happen when it is dirty, coming off the door.
That could be fixed by adding new adhesive.
Or replacing the seal. And you could get air leaks because the seal is hot and detaching -
If cold air is escaping because something is making a seal hot, I have a major problem.
You could mistake a warped and melting seal for a sagging door when the problem is really a defrost heater stuck on.
That would be a major problem.
There is the possibility you have a major problem that is causing a sagging door like loose hinge bolts. But it may be in the frame itself.
Like the bolts on the fridge frame are loose because it is rusting and sliding forward, and while I think the door is sagging due to a problem with the loose bolts, there’s a bigger and badder reason why it is sagging forward.
Yes. And tightening the bolts now doesn’t fix the reason they came loose.
Sure, and it won’t prevent it from coming loose later from the rust. Or, in fact, the rust becoming worse.
You can tighten the hinges now and the bolts that hold the hinges in place, but if the door seems to sag again, you need to call for service.
Or order a new fridge.
Or have someone figure out how to fix the legs that hold the fridge even, assuming you don’t need to fix the water leak warping the floor under the fridge.
If I have a water leak that bad, the fridge is rusting through and leaking too badly to bother with.
Or you need to empty the drain pan under the fridge more often.
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