Page 1 of Eeeewwwww!!!! The Saga Of The Fridge Door.

We`ve had our fridge a good eight or nine years. It`s a Kelvinator we picked up at Iceland, and it`s given us sterling service over the years. Like most fridges, the seals round the door have got mucky, and condensation keeps them wet. There`s a big capacity fridge at the top and a freezer with four drawers underneath.

About an hour ago, I went to get some milk and while I was filling the jug from the carton I happened to look down at the top surface of the freezer door.

Eeeeewwwww!

Dozens of little semi-transparent worms/ critters. About 8mm long, less than a quarter mil in diameter, with clearly visible digestive tracts full of the mould/muck from the door seal. On closer inspection there`s a few been squished by the door seal itself, but they`re coming from the gap between the door and the seal on the freezer door.

I pour salt on them to see if that`ll kill them, but it just p*sses them off. I squirt them with Dettol. That makes them hide back in the door crack.

I spend the next three-quarters of an hour scraping gunge out of the seal and eradicating the little bastards with a knife wrapped in kitchen towel as a scraper and a bowl of hot water to drown them in. At least they do apparently drown.

Too busy to take freak-you-out photos, but I guess next week I`m shopping for a new fridge freezer...

J Mark Oates

To clean it you need sodium bicarb and white vinegar then order a new seal from a local repair shop :D

durty buggers letting your fridge get like that :o ;)

Fire. Lots and lots of fire.

A priest probably wouldn`t go amiss either

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Silverfish?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverfish

This item was edited on Sunday, 28th June 2009, 09:41

We have Silverfish near the kitchen sink and they`re completely different critters. These in the freezer door were tiny, thread-like worm/leech things. The last time I saw anything like them was when we had a waterbutt by the greenhouse. Pond-life sort of thing definitely. I think I`ve eradicated them, but you can never be sure.

This is making our house sound like bug central, but it isn`t. :/

J Mark Oates

We had to bin a 2 year old fridge not so long ago, because the door seal was rank rotten.
Nothing we tried got rid of the smell.
Bleach/bicarb/vinegar/cleaning products.
I could have ordered a new door seal, for £36.00
But I couldn`t be arsed, we just bought a new fridge for £110 instead.

there was a earwig in the door seal the other day! (:¦

This item was edited on Sunday, 28th June 2009, 20:01

I think fridge door seals are one of the most problematic areas of your whole kitchen to keep clean. They collect dirt like a magnet, and are nearly always damp because of condensation. If they don`t grow mildew, they`re full of crumbs and other food particles which drop into them as you`re transferring food in and out of the fridge. You can clean them, but they`re awfully easy to damage, and once they`ve perished you either bin the fridge - or under the new IEEE regulations you pay somebody £40 to take it away and safely dispose of it - or you see about a replacement which will probably be around £50 if they have the one to fit your model.

I think I`ve got rid of the beasties, but I don`t want to be looking for a new fridge-freezer unless I absolutely have to and not before the new Argos catalogue is out.

J Mark Oates