UseAndCare Tabe of Contents (compete).................. 2 A Note to You................ 2 Refrigerator Safety....... 3 Parts and Features....... 4 Before Using Your Refrigerator... 5 Using Your Refrigerator................... 6 Caring for Your Refrigerator..............,.. 15 Food Storage Guide... 18 Troubeshooting......... 19 Requesting Assistance or Service... 20 Warranty...................... 24 1-800-253-I 301 Ca our Consumer Assistance Center with questions or comments. n-95 22 TO 25 NO-FROST TOP FREEZER REFRIGERATOR PART NO. 2173911
Tabe of Contents Page A Note to You..... 2 Refrigerator Safety....3 Parts and Features....4 Before Using Your Refrigerator... 5 Using Your Refrigerator......6 Setting the contros....6 Changing the contro settings......7 Removing the drop-in door trim......7 Adjusting the door bins....6 Adjusting the cantiever refrigerator sheves... 8 Removing the meat drawer and cover... 8 Removing the crispers and crisper cover..... 9 Removing the freezer shef... 9 Page Using the optiona automatic ice maker... 10 Attaching the ice maker to a water suppy... 11 Removing the base grie... 13 Changing the ight bubs... 13 Understanding the sounds you may hear... 14 Saving energy... 14 Reversing the door swing..... 14 Caring for Your Refrigerator..... 15 Food Storage Guide... 18 Troubeshooting... 19 Requesting Assistance or Service..... 20 Warranty... 24 A Note to You Thank you for buying a WHIRLPOOL@ appiance. Because your ife is getting busier and more compicated, WHIRLPOOL Refrigerators are easy to use, save time, and hep you manage your home better. To ensure you enjoy years of troube-free operation, we deveoped this Use and Care Guide. It contains vauabe information about how to operate and maintain your appiance propery and safey. Pease read it carefuy. Aso, pease compete and mai the Ownership Registration Card provided with your appiance. This card heps us notify you about any new information on your appiance. Pease record your mode s information. Whenever you ca to request service on your appi- Mode Number ante, you need to know your compete mode number and seria number. You can find this information on the Seria Number mode and seria number abe (see diagram on page 4 Purchase Date for ocation of abe). Deaer Name Pease aso record the purchase date of your appiance and your deaer s name, address, and teephone Deaer Address number. Deaer Phone Keep this book and the saes sip together in a safe pace for future reference. I Our Consumer Assistance Center number is tofree from anywhere in the U.S.A. 24 hours a day. I-800-253-1 301 1
Refrigerator Safety Your safety is important to us. This guide contains statements under warning symbos. Pease pay specia attention to these symbos and foow any instructions given. Here is a brief expanation of the use of the warning symbo. This symbo aerts you to dangers such as fire, eectrica shock, burns, and persona injury. IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS Read a instructions before using the refrigerator. Never cean refrigerator parts with fammabe achid entrapment and suffocation are not probems fuids. The fumes can create a fire hazard or of the past. Junked or abandoned refrigerators are exposion. sti dangerous... even if they wi just sit in the. FOR YOUR SAFETY garage a few days. DO NOT STORE OR USE GASOLINE OR OTHER If you are getting rid of your od refrigerator, do FLAMMABLE VAPORS AND LIQUIDS IN THE it safey. Pease read the encosed safety booket VICINITY OF THIS OR ANY OTHER APPLIANCE. from the Association of Home Appiance Manufac- THE FUMES CAN CREATE A FIRE HAZARD OR turers. Hep prevent accidents. EXPLOSION. Never aow chidren to operate, pay with, or craw inside the refrigerator. - SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS - Hep us hep you Pease: Insta and eve the refrigerator on a foor that wi hod the weight and in an area suitabe for its size and use. Do not insta the refrigerator near an oven, radiator, or other heat source. Do not use the refrigerator in an area where the room temperature wi fa beow 55 F (13 C). Keep the refrigerator out of the weather. Connect the refrigerator ony to the proper kind of outet, with the correct eectrica suppy and grounding. (Refer to the Eectrica Requirements and Grounding Instructions Sheet.) Do not oad the refrigerator with food before it has time to get propery cod. Use the refrigerator ony for the uses described in this manua. Propery maintain the refrigerator. Be sure the refrigerator is not used by anyone unabe to operate it propery. 3
Parts and Features This section contains captioned iustrations of your appiance. Use them to become famiiar with where a parts and features are ocated and what they ook ike. Page references are incuded for your convenience. NOTE: The mode you have purchased may have a or some of the parts and features shown and they may not match the iustration exacty. This manua covers severa modes. Ice cube trays Freezer shef (P. 9) L r I I - Freezer ight (P. 13) Contro pane (P. 6) utwy, compartment Mode and seria number abe (on side wa) (P. 2) Meat drawer (P. 8) Crisper cover (P. 9) / Refrigerator sheves (P. 8) Adjustabe door bins (P. 8) Leveng roers (behind base \ \ grie) (P. 5) Base grie (P. 13) Contro pane ERATOR ExER _. AOR MOISTURE CONTROL FREEZER -5- Refrgeraior contro Freeze; contro 4
-. _-.- _- Before Using Your Refrigerator It is important to prepare your refrigerator for use. This section tes you how to cean it, connect it to a power source, insta it, and eve it. Ceaning your refrigerator Removing packaging materias NOTE: Do not remove any permanent instruction Remove tape and any inside abes (except the mode abes inside your refrigerator. Do not remove the Tech and seria number abe) before using the refrigerator. Sheet fastened under the refrigerator at the front. To remove any remaining tape or abe gue: Ceaning it before use Rub brisky with thumb. After removing a packaging materias, cean your refrig- OR erator before using it, if necessary. See Appy iquid hand-dishwashing detergent to area ceaning instructions on page 15. before removing gue as described above. Do not use sharp instruments, rubbing acoho, fammabe fuids, or abrasive ceaners. These can damage the materia. See Important Safety Instructions on page 3. Pugging it in Recommended Grounding Method A 115 Vot, 60 Hz., AC ony 15 or 20 ampere fused and propery grounded eectrica suppy is required. It is recommended that a separate circuit serving ony this appiance be provided. Use a receptace which cannot be turned off with a switch or pu chain. Do not use an extension cord. See Eectrica Requirements and Grounding Instructions Sheet in your Literature Package. Instaing it propery 1. Aow /2 inch (1.25 cm) space on each side and at the top of the refrigerator for ease of instaation. 2. If the hinge side of the refrigerator is to be against a wa, you might want to eave extra space so the door can be opened wider. 3. The refrigerator can be fush against the back wa. Refrigerator power cord 3-prong groundng type wa receptace Leveing it Your refrigerator has two front eveing screws - one on the right and one on the eft. To adjust one or both of these, foow the directions beow. 1. Remove base grie. (See page 13.) 2. To raise front, turn screw cockwise. 3. To ower front, turn screw countercockwise. 4. Check with eve. 5. Repace base grie. (See page 13.) Right to raise; ef to ower Use a screwdrver to adjust 5
Using Your Refrigerator To obtain the best possibe resuts from your refrigerator, it is important that you operate it propery. This section tes you how to set the contros, remove and adjust the features in your refrigerator, and how to save energy. Setting the contros Contros for the refrigerator and freezer are in the refrigerator. When you pug in the refrigerator for the first time: 1. Set the Refrigerator Contro to 4 (Recommended Setting). Refrigerator Contro settings range from 1 (warmest) to 8 (codest). 2. Set the Freezer Contro to C (Recommended Setting). Freezer Contro settings range from A (warmest) to D (codest). Give the refrigerator time to coo down competey before adding food. This may take severa hours. The settings indicated above shoud be correct for norma, househod refrigerator usage. The contros are set correcty when mik or juice is as cod as you ike and when ice cream is firm. If you need to adjust these settings, see Changing the contro settings on page 7. Exterior moisture contro The Exterior Moisture Contro operates eectric heaters around the door openings. These heaters hep keep moisture from forming on the outside of the refrigerator cabinet. Use the OFF setting when humidity is ow. Use the ON setting if moisture forms on the outside of the refrigerator cabinet. I I REFRIGERATOR. WARMER SCOLDER. I I FREEZER EXTERIOR MOISTURE CONTROL -m ON 6
Changing the contro settings If you need to adjust temperatures in refrigerator or freezer, use the settings isted in the chart beow as a guide. If you have any questions, ca our Consumer Assistance Center number, -800-253-1301. from anywhere in the U.S.A. Adjust the Refrigerator Contro first. Wait at east 24 hours between adjustments. Then adjust the Freezer Contro if needed. CONDITION: REASON: RECOMMENDED Refrigerator SETTINGS: Freezer Refrigerator section too warm Door opened often Large amount of food added Room temperature too warm 6 A Freezer section too warm Door opened often Large amount of food added Very cod room temperature (can t cyce often enough) 4 D Refrigerator section too cod Contros not set correcty for your conditions 2 D Ice not made fast enough Heavy ice usage Very cod room temperature (can t cyce often enough) 4 D Both sections too warm Door opened often Large amount of food added Very warm or very cod room temperatures 6 6 Removing the drop-in door trim (on some modes) To remove the trim piece: 1. Remove a items from the shef. 2. Pu straight up on the trim piece at each end. To repace the trim piece: I \ 1. Locate each end of the trim piece above the trim pocket opening. 2. Push the trim piece straight down unti it stops. 3. Repace items on the shef. 7
Adjusting To remove door bins: 1. Lift bin up. 2. Pu bin straight out. the door bins To repace door bins: 1. Side bin in above desired support button. 2. Push down unti it stops., Support button Adjusting the cantiever refrigerator sheves Adjust the sheves to match the way you use your refrigerator. Gass sheves are strong enough to hod bottes, mik, and other heavy food items. To remove a shef: 1. Remove items from shef. 2. Tit shef up at front. 3. Lift shef at back. 4. Pu shef straight out. To repace a shef: 1. Guide the rear shef hooks into the sots in the shef supports on the back iner wa. 2. Tit front of shef up unti hooks drop into sots. 3. Lower front of shef to a eve position. Removing the meat drawer and cover To remove the meat drawer: 1. Side meat drawer out to the stop. 2. Lift front of meat drawer and side meat drawer out the rest of the way. 3. Repace in reverse order. To adjust the cover position: 1. Tit front of cover up. 2. Lift back of cover. 3. Pu cover straight out. To repace the cover: 1. Guide the cover s rear hooks into the sots in the shef supports on cabinet wa. 2. Tit cover up at front unti the hooks drop into sots. 3. Lower front of cover to a eve position. NOTE: Gass sheves are heavy. Hande them carefuy. Pu out to the stop, Ift the front, and pu again. 8
Removing the crispers and crisper cover To remove the crispers: 1. Side crisper straight out to the stop. 2. Lift the front and side out the rest of the way. 3. Repace in reverse order. Pu out to the stop, Ift the front, and pu again. To remove the cover: 1. Push up the gass insert from the bottom, then side out with both hands. 2. Lift front of cover frame. 3. Lift cover frame up and out. To repace the cover: 1. Fit back of cover frame into notch supports on back wa of refrigerator, then ower the front into pace. 2. Make sure the front cover meta support is in the notches in the sides of the iner. NOTE: If the support is not positioned propery, the doors may not cose a the way. 3. Side back of gass insert into pace, then ower front. Removing the freezer shef Remove the freezer shef for easier ceaning. To remove the shef: 1. Lift front of shef sighty. 2. Lift back of shef off supports. 3. Repace in reverse order. Remove the gass Insert. Lft the cover front, then the back. NOTE: Gass Insert Is heavy. Hande It carefuy.
Using the optiona automatic ice maker If your refrigerator has an automatic ice maker, or if you pan to add one ater (contact the deaer for ice maker kit number), here are a few things you shoud know. The ON/OFF ever is a wire signa arm. DOWN to make ice automaticay UP to shut off the ice maker IMPORTANT: Do not turn ice maker on unti you connect it to the water suppy. If you remove the ice bin, raise the signa arm to shut off the ice maker. When you repace the bin, push it in a the way and ower the ice maker signa arm to the ON position. Good water quaity is important for good ice quaity. Try to avoid connecting the ice maker to a softened water suppy. Water softener chemicas (such as sat from a mafunctioning softener) can damage the ice maker mod and ead to poor ice quaity. If you cannot avoid a softened water suppy, make sure the water softener is operating propery and is we maintained. UP to stop Ice maker. DOWN to start Ice maker. Soving common ice maker probems PROBLEM POSSIBLE CAUSE/SOLUTION Ice crescents attached This is norma. They break apart easiy. Shake bin occasionay to keep cubes at corners separated. Ice maker wi not ON/OFF ever is in the OFF (up) position. Lower ever to the ON (down) position. operate or ice is not Freezer is not cod enough. Adjust temperature contros and wait 24 hours. made fast enough (See Changing the contro settings on page 7.) Off-taste or odor in ice New pumbing connections can cause discoored or off-favored ice. Discard the first few batches of ice. Cubes are stored too ong. Throw them away and make a new suppy. Food is not wrapped propery. See page 18. Freezer and ice bin need to be ceaned. See page 15. Water may contain mineras (such as sufur). A fiter may be required to remove them. 10
Attaching the ice maker to a water suppy Read a directions carefuy before you begin. Eectrica b#j w Shock Hazard Unpug refrigerator before instaing ice maker. Faiure to do so can resut in death or eectrica shock. IMPORTANT: Use copper tubing ony and check for eaks, Insta ice maker tubing in areas where temperatures are above freezing. Toos required: Standard screwdriver &-inch and X-inch open-end wrenches or two adjustabe wrenches Winch nut driver X-inch dri bit Hand dri or eectric dri (propery grounded) Connecting to water ine 1. Find a M-inch to 1 X-inch vertica COLD water pipe near the refrigerator. NOTE: Horizonta pipe wi work, but the foowing precaution must be taken: Dri on the top side of the pipe, not the bottom. This wi hep keep water away from the dri. This aso keeps norma sediment from coecting in the vave. 2. Measure from connection on rear of refrigerator to water pipe. Add 7 feet (2.1 m) to aow for moving refrigerator for ceaning. This is the ength of X-inch O.D. copper tubing you wi need for the job (ength from connection to water pipe PLUS 7 feet [2.1 m]). Be sure both ends of copper tubing are cut square. 3. Turn OFF main water suppy. Turn ON nearest faucet ong enough to cear ine of water. 4. Using a grounded dri, dri a X-inch hoe on the cod water pipe you have seected. NOTE: Your appiance deaer has a kit avaiabe with a %-inch sadde type shut-off vave, a union, and copper tubing. Before purchasing, make sure a sadde type vave compies with your oca pumbing codes. Do not use piercing type or G-inch sadde vave which reduces water fow and cogs more easiy. Cod water suppy The ice maker water vave contains a fow washer which is used as a water pressure reguator. The ice maker needs to be connected to a cod water ine with water pressure imitations of 20-20 psi. If a probem occurs, ca your utiity company. IMPORTANT: It may take up to 24 hours for your ice maker to begin producing ice. If operating the refrigerator before instaing the water connection, turn ice maker to the OFF position to prevent operation without water. A instaations must be in accordance with oca pumbing code requirements. INSTALLATION Vertica cod water pipe, Washer \! IS NOT WARRANTED Some modes may not feature this second compression nut and seeve. %-inch O.D. copper tubing (ength from Inet on rear of refrigerator to water ppe pus 7 feet [2.1 m]) TO REFRIGERATOR + continued on next page 11
5. Fasten shut-off vave to cod water pipe with pipe camp. Be sure outet end is soidy in the %-inch dried hoe in the water pipe and that washer is under the pipe camp. Tighten packing nut. Tighten the pipe camp screws carefuy and eveny so washer makes a watertight sea. Do not overtighten or you may crush the copper tubing, especiay if soft (coied) copper tubing is used. Now you are ready to connect the copper tubing. 6. Sip compression seeve and compression nut on copper tubing as shown in diagram. Insert end of tubing into outet end squarey as far as it wi go. Screw compression nut onto outet end with adjustabe wrench. Do not overtighten. Turn ON main water suppy and fush out tubing unti water is cear. Turn OFF shut-off vave on the water pipe. Coi copper tubing. Connecting to refrigerator NOTE: The first step for connecting the water ine to your refrigerator is different depending on the type of water vave provided with your refrigerator. See the diagrams at right to determine the stye of vave you have. (On kit modes, assembe water vave to refrigerator per kit instructions.) 1. For stye #, disconnect the tube camp on the back of the product and insert the copper tubing through the camp, as shown at the right. Remove the tape abe from the vave inet and insert copper tubing unti it bottoms out (approximatey %-inch). Tighten nut by hand as much as possibe; then turn the nut an additiona /2 turn using a wrench. Do not overtighten. Re-attach the tube camp and tube to the back of the cabinet. Skip to step 2. For stye #2, disconnect the tube camp on the back of the product and insert copper tubing through the camp as shown at the right. Attach the copper tube to the vave inet using a compression nut and seeve as shown. Tighten the compression nut. Do not overtighten. Re-attach the tube camp and tube to the back of the cabinet. Move to step 2. 2. Turn shut-off vave ON. CHECK FOR LEAKS. TIGHTEN ANY CONNECTIONS (INCLUDING CONNECTIONS AT THE VALVE) OR NUTS THAT LEAK. 3. The ice maker is equipped with a buit-in water strainer. If oca water conditions require periodic ceaning or a we is your source of water suppy, a second water strainer shoud be instaed in the M-inch water ine. Obtain a water strainer from your nearest appiance deaer. Insta at either tube connection. 4. Reconnect eectrica suppy to refrigerator. Stye # vave Stye #2 vave a ; Water Copper Mountng screw tubing. I Inet fitting Use ony %-inch cod water ine Vi-Inch compresson nut and seeve 12
Removing the base grie To remove the grie: 1. Open both doors. 2. Pu base grie forward to reease the support tabs from the meta cips. 3. Do not remove Tech Sheet fastened behind the grie. To repace the grie: 1. Line up grie support tabs with meta cips. 2. Push firmy to snap into pace. 3. Cose the doors. See ceaning instructions for defrost pan and condenser cois on pages 15 and 16. Changing the ight bubs Condenser tos Eectrica Shock Hazard Unpug the refrigerator before removing a ight bub. Faiure to do so can resut in death or eectrica shock. To change the refrigerator ight: 1. Unpug the refrigerator. 2. Reach behind the Contro Pane to remove bub. 3. Repace with a 60-watt appiance bub. 4. Pug in the refrigerator. To repace the freezer ight: 1. Unpug the refrigerator. 2. Grasp the top and bottom of the ight shied. 3. Squeeze and pu ight shied out. 4. Repace with a 25-watt appiance bub. 5. Snap ight shied into pace. 6. Pug in the refrigerator. NOTE: Not a commercia appiance bubs wi fit your refrigerator. Be sure to repace a bub with one of the same size and shape.
Understanding the sounds you may hear Your new refrigerator may make sounds that your od Water sounds one didn t. Because the sounds are new to you, you When the refrigerator stops running, you may hear might be concerned about them. Don t be. Most of the gurging in the tubing for a few minutes after it stops. new sounds are norma. Hard surfaces ike the foor, You may aso hear defrost water running into the was, and cabinets can make the sounds seem ouder. defrost water pan. The foowing describes the kinds of sounds that might be new to you, and what may be making them. Ice maker sounds tricking water Sight hum, soft hiss thud (catter of ice) You may hear the refrigerator s fan motor and moving air. You may hear buzzing (from the water vave), tricking water, and the catter of ice dumped into the bin. Cicking or snapping sounds The thermostat makes a definite cick when the refrigerator stops running. It aso makes a sound when the refrigerator starts. The defrost timer wi cick when the defrost cyce starts. Saving energy You can hep your refrigerator use ess eectricity. Check door gaskets for a tight sea. Leve the cabinet to be sure of a good sea. Cean the condenser cois reguary. Open the door as few times as possibe. Think about what you need before you open the door. Get everything out at one time. Keep food organized so you won t have to search for what you want. Cose door as soon as food is removed. Reversing the door swing The doors on your refrigerator are reversibe. If you need to reverse the door swing, refer to the instruction sheet incuded with your refrigerator. Running sounds Your refrigerator has a high-efficiency compressor and motor. It wi run onger than oder designs. It may even seem to run most of the time. Go ahead and fi up the refrigerator, but don t overcrowd it so air movement is bocked. It is a waste of eectricity to set the refrigerator and freezer to temperatures coder than they need to be. If ice cream is firm in the freezer and drinks are as cod as your famiy ikes them, that s cod enough. Make sure your refrigerator is not next to a heat source such as a range, water heater, furnace, radiator, or in direct sunight. 14
Caring for Your Refrigerator Your refrigerator is buit to give you many years of dependabe service. However, there are a few things you can do to hep extend its product ife. This section tes you how to cean your refrigerator and what to do when going on vacation, moving, or during a power outage. Ceaning your refrigerator Both the refrigerator and freezer sections defrost automaticay. However, cean both about once a month to hep prevent odors from buiding up. Wipe up spis right away. To cean your refrigerator, unpug it, take out a removabe parts, and cean the refrigerator according to the foowing directions. Burn Hazard Refrigeration system tubes are near the defrost pan and can become hot. Remove and insta defrost pan carefuy. Faiure to do so can resut in burns. PART WHAT TO USE HOW TO CLEAN Removabe parts Sponge or coth with mid Hand wash, rinse, and dry thoroughy. (sheves, crisper, etc.) detergent and warm water Outside Sponge, coth, or paper Wash outside of cabinet. Do not use abrasive or towe with mid detergent, harsh ceaners. warm water, and a good Wipe and dry thoroughy. appiance wax (or good Wax painted meta surfaces at east twice a year. auto paste wax) Appy wax with a cean, soft coth. Waxing painted meta surfaces provides rust protection. Do not wax pastic parts. Inside was (aow freezer to warm up so coth won t stick) Door iners and gaskets Pastic parts (covers and panes) Sponge, soft coth, or paper Wash with mixture of warm water and: towe with baking soda or - mid detergent, or mid detergent and warm - baking soda (2 tbs to 1 qt [26 g to.95 L] of water). water. Wipe and dry thoroughy. Sponge, soft coth, or paper Wash, wipe, and dry thoroughy. towe with mid detergent DO NOT USE ceaning waxes, concentrated and warm water detergents, beaches, or ceaners containing petroeum on pastic parts. Soft, cean sponge or soft, cean coth with mid detergent and warm water Defrost pan Sponge or coth with mid detergent and warm water Wash, wipe, and dry thoroughy. DO NOT USE paper towes, window sprays, scouring ceansers, or fammabe fuids. These can scratch or damage materia. See Important Safety Instructions on page 3. Remove base grie. (See page 13.) Reach into sma opening at right edge and remove the defrost pan. Wash, rinse, and dry thoroughy. Repace defrost pan. Make sure to push it competey into the opening. Repace base grie. continued on next page 1
PART Condenser cois WHAT TO USE Vacuum ceaner with extended narrow attachment HOW TO CLEAN Remove base grie. Vacuum cois when dusty or dirty. Cois may need to be ceaned as often as every other month. Repace base grie. Vacation and moving care Short vacations No need to shut off the refrigerator if you wi be away for ess than four weeks. 1. Use up any perishabes. 2. Freeze other items. 3. If your refrigerator has an automatic ice maker: Raise signa arm to OFF (up) position. Shut off water suppy to the ice maker. Long vacations If you wi be gone a month or more: 1. Remove a food from the refrigerator. 2. If your refrigerator has an automatic ice maker: Turn off the water suppy to the ice maker at east one day ahead of time. When the ast oad of ice drops, turn off the ice maker. Make sure a ice is dispensed out of the ice maker mechanism. 3. Unpug the refrigerator. 4. Cean it, wipe, and dry thoroughy. 5. Tape rubber or wood bocks to the tops of both doors to prop them open far enough for air to get in. This stops odor and mod from buiding up. To restart refrigerator, see page 5. Moving When you are moving the refrigerator to a new home: 1. If your refrigerator has an automatic ice maker: Turn off the water suppy to the ice maker at east one day ahead of time. Disconnect the water ine. After the ast oad of ice drops, ift the signa arm to the OFF (up) position. 2. Remove a food from the refrigerator. 3. Pack a frozen food in dry ice. 4. Unpug the refrigerator. 5. Cean it thoroughy. Wipe and dry thoroughy. 6. Take out a removabe parts, wrap them we, and tape them together so they don t shift and ratte. 7. Screw in the eveing roers. 8. Tape the doors shut and tape the power suppy cord to the cabinet. When you get to your new home, put everything back and refer to page 5. Aso, if your refrigerator has an automatic ice maker, remember to reconnect the water suppy ine (see page 11). 16
Power interruptions If eectricity goes off, ca the power company. Ask how ong power wi be off. 1. n service wi be interrupted 24 hours or ess, keep both doors cosed. This heps foods stay frozen. 2. If service wi be interrupted onger than 24 hours: (a) Remove a frozen food and store in a frozen food ocker. OR (b) Pace 2 Ibs (907 g) of dry ice in freezer for every cubic foot (iter) of freezer space. This wi keep food frozen for two to four days. Wear goves to protect your hands from dry ice burns. OR (c) If neither a food ocker nor dry ice is avaiabe, use or can perishabe food at once. 3. A fu freezer stays cod onger than a party fied one. A freezer fu of meat stays cod onger than a freezer fu of baked goods. If food contains ice crystas, it may be safey refrozen, athough the quaity and favor may be affected. If the condition of the food is poor, or if you fee it is unsafe, dispose of it. Questions? Ca our Consumer Assistance Center teephone number, -800-253-1301, from anywhere in the U.S.A. 17
Food Storage Guide There is a correct way to package and store refrigerated or frozen food. To keep food fresher, onger, take the time to study these recommended steps. Storing fresh food Wrap or store food in the refrigerator in airtight and moisture-proof materia. This prevents food odor and taste transfer throughout the refrigerator. For dated products, check code date to ensure freshness. Butter or margarine Keep opened butter in covered dish or cosed compartment. When storing an extra suppy, wrap in freezer packaging and freeze. Leafy vegetabes Remove store wrapping and remove bruised and discoored areas. Wash in cod water and drain. Pace in pastic bag or pastic container and store in crisper. Vegetabes with skins (carrots, peppers) Store in crisper, pastic bags, or pastic container. Fruit Wash, et dry, and store in refrigerator in pastic bags or crisper. Do not wash or hu berries unti they are ready to use. Sort and keep berries in origina container in a crisper, or store in a oosey cosed paper bag on a refrigerator shef. Eggs Store without washing in origina carton on interior shef. On some modes, an egg storage container is provided for your convenience. Mik Wipe mik cartons. For best storage, pace mik on interior shef. Storing frozen food The freezer section is designed for storage of commerciay frozen food and for freezing food at home. NOTE: For further information about preparing food for freezing or food storage times, check a freezer guide or reiabe cookbook. Packaging The secret to successfu freezing is in the packaging. The way you cose and sea the package must not aow air or moisture in or out. Packaging done in any other way coud cause food odor and taste transfer throughout the refrigerator and drying of frozen food. Packaging recommended for use: Rigid pastic containers with tight-fitting ids Straight-sided canning/freezing jars Heavy-duty auminum foi Pastic-coated paper Non-permeabe pastic wraps (made from Saran fim) Foow package or container instructions for proper freezing methods. 18 Cheese Store in the origina wrapping unti you are ready to use it. Once opened, rewrap tighty in pastic wrap or auminum foi. Leftovers Cover eftovers with pastic wrap or auminum foi. Pastic containers with tight ids can aso be used. Meat Store most meat in origina wrapping as ong as it is airtight and moisture-proof. Rewrap if necessary. See the foowing for storage times. When storing meat onger than the times given, freeze the meat. Chicken............ -2 days Bacon.................. 5-7 days Ground beef..... -2 days Cod cuts............. 3-5 days Steaks/roasts.... 3-5 days Variety meats...... -2 days Cured meats... 7-0 days NOTE: Use fresh fish and shefish the same day as purchased. Do not use: Bread wrappers Non-poyethyene pastic containers Containers without tight ids Wax paper Wax-coated freezer wrap Thin, semi-permeabe wrap The use of these wrappings coud cause food odor, taste transfer, and drying of frozen food. Questions? Ca our Consumer Assistance Center teephone number from anywhere in the U.S.A., -800-253-1301.
Troubeshooting Performance probems often resut from itte things you can fix without toos. Pease read through Before caing for assistance... beow before caing for service on your appiance. Before caing for assistance... Listed in this chart are the most common probems consumers run into with their appiances. Pease read through this and see if it can sove your probem. PROBLEM Your refrigerator wi not operate The ights do not work The optiona ice maker does not work CHECK THE FOLLOWING Is the power suppy cord firmy pugged into a ive circuit with proper votage? Has a househod fuse or circuit breaker bown/tripped? Is the Refrigerator Contro set to the OFF position? Is the power suppy cord firmy pugged into a ive circuit with proper votage? Has a househod fuse or circuit breaker bown/tripped? Is a bub burned out? Is the freezer cod enough to make ice? It coud take overnight for the freezer to reach the proper temperature. Is the ON/OFF ever in the ON (down) position? (See page 10.) Is the water vave turned on? Does the water ine have a cog or eak? Unfamiiar sounds Is something on top of or behind the refrigerator? or a ratting/ jinging noise Some new sounds are norma. See Understanding the sounds you may hear on page 14. There is water in This is norma on hot, muggy days. Make sure the refrigerator is eve so the pan does the defrost pan not overfow. The motor seems to run too much Are the condenser cois dirty? Has the door been opened often? Has a arge amount of food been added at one time? The motor naturay runs onger if these things happen. Is the room hot? If the room is too warm, the motor runs onger to keep the unit coo. 19 I
Reauestina - Assistance or Service I u Before caing for assistance or service, pease check Troubeshooting on page 19. It may save you the cost of a service ca. If you sti need hep, foow the instructions beow. For assistance or service: 1. If you need assistance*... Ca the Whirpoo Consumer Assistance Center t&ephone number. Dia to-free from anywhere in the U.S.A.: 1-800-253-301 and tak with one of our trained consutants. The consutant can instruct you in how to obtain satisfactory operation from your appiance or, if service is necessary, recommend a quaified service company in your area. If you prefer, write to: Mr. Wiiam Cark Consumer Assistance Representative Whirpoo Corporation 2000 North M-63 Benton Harbor, M 49022-2692 Pease incude a daytime phone number in your correspondence. 2. If you need service*... Whirpoo has a nationwide network of authorized 1-1 Whirpoo service companies. Whirpoo service technicians are trained to fufi the product warranty and provide afterwarranty service, anywhere in the United u States. To ocate the authorized Whirpoo service company in your area, ca our Consumer Assistance Center teephone number (see Step 1) or ook in your teephone directory Yeow Pages under: 3. If you need FSP@ repacement parts... FSP is a registered-trademark of Whirpoo Corporation for quaity parts. Look for this symbo of quaity whenever you need a repacement part for your WHIRLPOOL@ appiance. FSP repacement parts wi fit right and work right, because they are made to the same exacting specifications used to buid every new WHIRLPOOL appiance. To ocate FSP repacement parts in your area, refer to Step 2 or ca the Whirpoo Consumer Assistance Center number in Step 1. 4. If you are not satisfied with how the probem was soved... Contact the Major Appiance Consumer Action Program (MACAP). MACAP is a group of independent consumer experts that voices consumer views at the highest eves of the major appiance industry. Contact MACAP ony when the deaer, authorized servicer, and Whirpoo have faied to resove your probem. Major Appiance Consumer Action Program 20 North Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 MACAP wi in turn inform us of your action. *APPLIANCE-HOUSEHOLD *WASHING MACHINES 6 MAJOR, SERVICE 6 REPAIR DRYERS, SERVICE A REPAIR - See: Whirpoo Appiances or - See: Whirpoo Appiances or Authorized Wh+oo Service Auhorized Whirpoo Service (Exampe: XYZ Service Co.) (Examp/e:xYz!hvice CO.) When asking for hep or service: Pease provide a detaied description of the probem, your appiance s compete mode and seria numbers, and the purchase date. (See page 2.) This information wi hep us respond propery to your request. 20
Warranty WHIRLPOOL@ Refrigerator Warranty LENGTH OF WARRANTY FULL ONE-YEAR WARRANTY From Date of Purchase FULL FIVE-YEAR WARRANTY From Date of Purchase WHIRLPOOL WILL PAY FOR FSP@ repacement parts and repair abor to correct defects in materias or workmanship. Service must be provided by an authorized Whirpoo service company. FSP repacement parts and repair abor to correct defects in materias or workmanship in the seaed refrigeration system. These parts are: 1. Compressor 2. Evaporator 3. Condenser 4. Drier 5. Connecting tubing Service must be provided by an authorized Whirpoo service company. WHIRLPOOL WILL NOT PAY FOR A. Service cas to: 1. Correct the instaation of your refrigerator. 2. Instruct you how to use your refrigerator. 3. Repace house fuses or correct house wiring or pumbing. 4. Repace ight bubs. B. Repairs when your refrigerator is used in other than norma, singe-famiy househod use. C. Pickup and deivery. Your refrigerator is designed to be repaired in the home. D. Damage to your refrigerator caused by accident, misuse, fire, food, acts of God, or use of products not approved by Whirpoo. E. Any food oss due to product faiure. F. Repairs to parts or systems caused by unauthorized modifications made to the appiance. WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. Some states do not aow the excusion or imitation of incidenta or consequentia damages, so this excusion or imitation may not appy to you. This warranty gives you specific ega rights, and you may aso have other rights which vary from state to state. Outside the United States, a different warranty may appy. For detais, pease contact your authorized Whirpoo deaer. If you need service, first see the Troubeshooting section of this book. After checking Troubeshooting, additiona hep can be found by checking the Requesting Assistance or Service section, or by caing our Consumer Assistance Center teephone number, -800-253-1301, from anywhere in the U.S.A. PART NO. 2173911 0 1995 Whirpoo, U.S.A. @ Reg~sered TrademaruM Trademak oi Whirpoo, U.S.A. 1 o/95 Printed in U.S.A.