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They aren't. There are side by sides and bottom freezer sections

2006-10-29 08:05:17 · answer #1 · answered by miamac49616 4 · 0 1

Most I've seen in appliance stores in the USA are on the top, but some are available on the side or on the bottom. I prefer the freezer on the bottom because the refrigerator section gets used far more than the freezer section and one doesn't need to bend down to get things from the refrigerator. I've been told by salesmen in the stores that most are built with the freezer at the top for convenience of families with children so the children can easily reach into the refrigerator to get cold drinks and not need to disturb the parents to get a drink for them every time the children are thirsty.

2006-11-01 10:24:13 · answer #2 · answered by Ray 4 · 0 0

There is one of three reasons why your fridge section is freezing food. You didnt mention whether you had a side by side or freezer on top or bottom model, so the following checks may not apply to your unit. One reason food might be freezing is your cold control has failed, and will not turn the unit off when the physical temps are correct. When this occurrs food normally freezes throughout fridge section, top, bottom, middle, front and back. BOTH controls, though you may only have one, should be at the middle setting. Adjust your controls, place a plastic cup of water at the top, the middle, and bottom shelf of your fridge. Check all three AFTER 24 hours. if all three are ice, you COULD have a bad cold control. It is possible you might also have a door damper that is stuck open. A door damper is a swinging or sliding door that opens / closes either when temp control settings are adjusted, or on some fridges, when either door is opened, the damper closes. Please note, door dampers are USUALLY only present on side by side refrigerators. They can have a motor, or thermostat open the door automatically,which can break, and others will simply have a lever of some sort, which usually wont. If after 24 hours, only the middle and bottom cups are ice, your evaporator fan motor, in the freezer, is likely not operating. Not knowing the BRAND you own, it could be the motor itself, a thermostat located on the evaporator, your defrost heater, or a main computer control board that controls the fan motor. Sorry I cant be as specific as id like, but i had to cover all possible bases.

2016-05-22 05:47:50 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Not always, some have the freezer section at the bottom; some have them on the side.

Why was it put on the top? Convenience. Cold air is denser and would drift down, so if the freezer is on top, the bottom portion of the freezer compartment would diffuse the cold for the fridge section below. When the compressor is not working, this stabilizes the refrigerator temperature. Advanced, high performance insulation makes the need less on recent models.

Historically, before compressor driven fridges appeared, ice would be kept in the upper section of an "icebox", to have the cold air circulate down by convection. Evidently, anything that required freezing would have to be kept next to the ice, at the top.
So there is an element of tradition in the old design.

2006-10-29 08:09:04 · answer #4 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 1 1

Don't know where you are - I'm in England and I've only ever seen them with freezer sections at the bottom.

Addition: just realised, with a fridge that has a small freezer section inside it the compartment will be at the top - the 'walls' that separate it from the 'fridge itself aren't too thick, so I guess that if it were at the bottom things on the floor of the 'fridge would freeze to it?

2006-10-29 07:59:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

They're not - or not in the UK at least - we've been looking for a new one and the freezer is always at the bottom. I suppose it is because you don't use it as much as the fridge.

What gets me is that the freezer bits are so small - surely (I've told you before, don't call me Shirley) you need a big freezer and small fridge?

A thought - the OP isn't on about the little freezer compartment in "non-larder" fridges?

2006-10-29 08:07:24 · answer #6 · answered by Stephen L 7 · 0 1

Do you mean the ice-box of a refrigerator coz the last two fridge/freezers that I have owned have both had the freezer dept on the bottom?

2006-10-29 08:02:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

Freezer sections aren't always at the top. They have them at the bottom nowadays in a slide-out drawer (more convenient to reach), and they've been making side-by-side refrigerators for years. I love(d) my side-by-side.

2006-10-30 02:03:04 · answer #8 · answered by Shayna 5 · 0 1

Convenience. The freezer section is usually small so if it was at floor level, it would be hard to find things unless you got on your knees.

2006-10-29 07:59:06 · answer #9 · answered by Gene 7 · 0 2

I've had many freezers and they have all been at the bottom

2006-10-30 02:38:19 · answer #10 · answered by Scotty 7 · 0 1

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