Vacuuming those dang refrigerator coils

by Badbadivy on July 22, 2007

retrochick.JPGIvy says:

A comment on this post reminded me of something I had been wanting to post about for awhile.  Typically, you should be vacuuming your refrigerator coils twice a year with your spring and fall cleaning. Vacuuming the refrigerator coils not only extends the life of your refrigerator, but it helps save electricity, because a dusty fridge has to work harder.

However, if you have pets, you should vacuum more often- the more pets, the more vacuuming. I have 2 cats and a dog, and I vacuum once every couple of months. It really does save electricity costs- when I started doing this, I noticed a small drop in my electricity bill!

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some refrigerators are impossible to vacuum out!

thanks. I have 3 dog in my house.
please do tutorial too.

Please do a tutorial!!

I bet I can put together a tutorial this evening. Before anyone gets mother hen-ish, I'll make my husband pull the fridge out. I'm definitely overdue with regard to that chore.

OK, uh (feeling embarassed) . . . so, I'm supposed to do this chore on this coil thingy? Would you mind posting pictures and step by step instructions on how to do this? Thanks!

This scares me. Really. It scares me. Under my *fridge*? It's disgusting under there. I assume, because I never look under there because I think it's disgusting.

How on earth do you vacuum a fridge coil? What *is* a fridge coil? Where is it?

(submitting sheepishly now)

Shoot. I was hoping this was a myth, or at least a "once every few years" kind of thing. Time to drag out the vacuum...

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