I bought a used fridge a couple of days ago. It seems to work and cool just fine. It also runs nice and quietly.
The problem is there seems to be a chemical smell to it, which doesn't appear to be dissipating. It's detectable outside the unit, but it seems to be a tad more concentrated in the fridge itself. I'm only putting sealed items like bottles/cans/jars in it at the moment, and when I remove them the chemical smell lingers on them too.
The unit is about 10 years old. Unfortunately I don't have a particularly wide palette when it comes to identifying chemical smells. Closest I could say is its like a much more subtle but evil version of a chlorine smell, so probably nothing like chlorine technically. The previous owner kept it in a shed rather than a kitchen, if that could have something to do with it...
The problem is there seems to be a chemical smell to it, which doesn't appear to be dissipating. It's detectable outside the unit, but it seems to be a tad more concentrated in the fridge itself. I'm only putting sealed items like bottles/cans/jars in it at the moment, and when I remove them the chemical smell lingers on them too.
The unit is about 10 years old. Unfortunately I don't have a particularly wide palette when it comes to identifying chemical smells. Closest I could say is its like a much more subtle but evil version of a chlorine smell, so probably nothing like chlorine technically. The previous owner kept it in a shed rather than a kitchen, if that could have something to do with it...
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