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• Household appliances have average lifetime expectancies. Maintaining your appliances properly can extend their lifetime indefinitely.
• Clean all freezer compartments regularly, even though it may not require defrosting.
• Wipe up any spills in the freezer promptly to avoid staining and odors.
• Defrost your manual defrost freezer about once a year, or when the frost gets about 1/2 inch thick on the inside walls and clean it thoroughly. If you’re going to scrape the ice off, use a plastic or wooden scraper, not a sharp instrument.
• If your freezer is a self-defrost freezer, it will melt its own frost every eight to ten hours, and drain any excess water to the drain pan where it evaporates.
• When storing items in the door, place the heaviest items closest to the hinge side; this will reduce stress on the door and inner door panel when it is opened and closed.
• Once or twice a year slide the freezer out and vacuum around, inside the back, beneath, and behind it. Clean the coils with a condenser coil brush from our website in the accessories section.
• Use baking soda to absorb any odors.