How the heck does one take the door off a fridge?

[conuly]

Seriously, how am I gonna do this?

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Comments

[adrian_turtle]

Refrigerators may differ, but mine has the door hinges held on by nuts you can remove with a socket wrench. If you need to take the door off with the refrigerator standing upright, it helps to have a second person to support the door, so it's never hanging from a single hinge. The hardest part is the bottom hinge, because you can't see the nut...you just have to grope for it with the wrench. My fridge has a little cap that snaps over the top hinge. You don't have to push hard to take it off, it's like opening a rubbermaid container. It's easiest to do it with the refrigerator laying on its side, but hardly any kitchens have room for that.

[conuly]

This is the fridge we're throwing out, it's sitting in our hallway until tomorrow afternoon.

[ancarett]

Every time we've moved, we've had to reverse fridge doors so we're old pros. Fridge hinges have little decorative caps. Pop those off and it becomes a lot easier to manage. But this family handyman site has illustrations to help even more: http://www.familyhandyman.com/appliance-repair/refrigerator-repair/how-to-reverse-a-refrigerator-door/view-all

[conuly]

Thankies :)

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Here's what Google has to say. (https://www.google.com/search?q=remove+refrigerator+door) If that doesn't suffice, call a handyman. Good luck!

[conuly]

You know, if you're gonna link to google, you could at least link to lmgtfy. (What can I say? I like to watch the animation!)

_{not a word of this is sarcasm, btw}

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Here iz me Googling "lmgtfy"....

... ??? I don't see any animation.

[conuly]

Allow me to demonstrate.... See? When you do it, it produces a snarky little animation. Which I like to watch.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

When I came home for Christmas in my first year of uni, my parents had just bought a new fridge to live in the coal hole (pantry). As supplied, the door was on the wrong side. So my first day home was spent helping Dad reverse the door. More specifically, sitting on the floor in the coal hole, wedged between the fridge and the wall, taking the fridge's weight whilst Dad tipped it back and struggled to remove and reattach the door. For hours.

Happy times.

I hope your door reversal proceeds/ed more smoothly.

[conuly]

Oh, we're not reversing it, we're throwing it out. The law is that doors have to be removed prior to disposal, so... yeah.

[eofs.livejournal.com]

Oh, right. Stops people getting trapped inside is the reason I presume?

[conuly]

Pretty much, except new fridges are designed so you pretty much can't get trapped inside unless you are literally an infant (in which case somebody would have to have deliberately put you in....), so the law's a bit of an artifact. Regardless, the city takes it very seriously.