Home repair | Knitting In Flashes

We noticed some frozen veggies in the crisper drawer in our freezer-on-the-bottom refrigerator. They are not suppose to freeze. Frozen romaine lettuce is pretty disgusting.

After several Internet searches, I found a fix to problem. A frozen defrost line in the back of the refrigerator. So you ask: If the freezer is on the bottom, how come the defrost is up there? The ice maker and water dispenser are in the upper part so we can get water and ice through the door. The water from the defrost cycle from the ice maker couldn’t get down to the evaporator pan as it was clogged with ice so it ran into the bottom of the refrigerator, pooled under the crisper drawers and froze. The veggies in the crisper were sitting right on top of ice and froze, too.

I watched a couple of YouTube videos on how to repair the frozen line and keep it from happening again. Only time will tell if the fix worked.

Figured I saved a hundred dollars. Or two. That’s a bundle to me.

Between repairing nine window screens, doctor appointments, hospital tests, a visiting grandchild, a flooded basement, work, and life in general, I finished a couple of things. Nothing knitting related but still creative or challenging.

In a previous post I showed you some pictures of our front porch. I don’t know if you noticed the screen on the bay window. Probably not. Well, it was torn at the bottom. An over zealous power washer was, um, over zealous and several screens were damaged. We don’t take the screens out of our windows in the winter so twenty year-old fiberglass mesh screens are fragile.

I learned how to replace window screens. YouTube is wonderful. I could pick all the components locals except for the plunger pins that hold the screen into the window frame. I found a place on-line and ordered enough to replace all of them in our windows should the need arise. Good thing I did as I ended up having to replace some in our other windows before the job was finished.