Our fridge temp. will not drop below 43 degrees.

I've been struggling trying to keep our 2 goldens dog hair from the coils of our 8 year old Kenmore side by side with "W" compressor coils, but like everyone else was unable to clean past the first set of coils.

I came up with this solution that worked to get much of the big stuff, hair and bunnies, off of the further back coils. Not perfect but much better than nothing.

Removing the back lower panel I was able to snake a crevice attachment from our vacuum down the right side of the coils (left side looking from back)

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The compressed air dislodged the hair/dust enough that the vacuum was able to **** it away. Again, not perfectly but certainly much better than I was able to clean the coils in the past.

I suppose you could use a can of compressed air and add some sort of deflector if you don't have a compressor.

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Picture taken before making the filter thinner.

For years I had my calendar remind me monthly to vacuum the coils but now hopefully I'll be able to simply change the air filter.

One easy thing to check is for obstruction to condenser coils below the machine. Clean the kickplate and get the dust off those coils to provide optimum flow of air over coils.

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