To feel frustrated with my freezer situation as a renter?

Well unless you were planning on preparing for your interviews in the freezer or cooker that's irrelevant.

How old are you?

have you never defrosted a freezer before?

of course it's not a LL job, it's a perfectly normal household job unless you have a more modern frost free freezer.

you need to defrost them before it stops it closing properly. When you left it off for 10/12 hours what did you actively do to help it defrost.

The safest thing to do is just keep putting bowls of hot water in it and removing chunks of ice by hand when you can. If you can't resist 'helping' it use PLASTIC items, being very careful with the walls of the freezer (it's easy to damage them)

keep the fridge part closed and it'll be fine

cooker. No I wouldn't expect a rent reduction, the LL is getting you a new one as fast as delivery allows.

if you haven't got s separate Hobb, don't want to buy yourself an air fryer etc eat salad or sandwiches, toast, it won't kill uou for a few days.

Do not go sticking a knife in the freezer! You can damage the walls of the freezer!

Thank you but the trays won’t open so there isn’t anywhere to really put a saucepan with hot water

Hair dryer - hot knife or if you can't stand there hot pot of boiling water in immediately in front of freezer doors to at least warm the immediate air in front of the freezer till you can get a bowl/saucepan in there.

If it's that frozen up it will taken time to melt - you might be better off getting an cool box for your fridge items.

Hairdryer then? Just long enough to get the trays open.

Have you tried warming a knife in a cup of hot water and then trying to slide it between where the ice meets the walls of the freezer? I find I can usually gently lever off large pieces of ice this way. You can also use a hairdryer to speed up the melting process, again focus on where the ice is attached to the freezer not on the outside of the ice as then it will fall off the door/ walls etc in chunks. Once you can remove the drawers and the frozen food you will probably find it defrosts quickly from there but it sounds like your freezer is one big ice block right now which is going to take time to defrost - when people say it only takes a few hours to defrost a freezer they probably mean when it is empty, they don’t mean when it is iced over to the extent you can’t open the drawers and empty it.

Sounds like you are doing right thing, but just not long enough. Whack the heating up, hairdryer safely on any bits of drawers you can reach. It will start to melt, so plenty of towels, containers to catch thaw. As you can, ease out drawers, remove food, into fridge area, then when you can, get hot water containers in there. Good luck.

Our oven broke within the first 2 weeks of our tenancy last year. Called landlord at 4.30, he was at ours by 5 - assessed the issue, couldn't fix it, ordered a new oven there and then and offered to buy us a takeaway as it was a huge inconvenience! He's a top landlord and a breath of fresh air after the last dragon we had!!
We didn't accept a takeaway from him BTW, hob still worked and microwave and airfryer so we weren't stuck!
New oven in within 48 hours!

The poster you answered makes a good suggestion about placing something warm in the freezer to speed up the process. I use a couple of saucepans of hot water. Sometimes I use a hairdryer - well obviously I don’t put it IN the freezer but you know what I mean!

I don’t mean to sound like a negative Nancy but appliances aren’t always covered by the landlord. Read over your contract and. See what it says in regards to this.

You've kept it off for 24h with the door open and you still can't chip away enough ice to get the drawers open?

Keep trying. Just focus on that for now. The drawers and food inside will be prolonging the process. Then you can use the frozen food to keep the fridge cool.

Unfortunately there is no effortless way to do it unless you're lucky.

In that case it sounds like you just need to wait longer. If ice is inside a switched off freezer at room temperature then basic science says it will melt, it won’t stay frozen forever but if it is completely frozen over obviously it may take a while for the temperature to drop. If you need to speed it up then turn on the heating so the temperature in the kitchen is warmer.

That’s good. Is the freezer door wide open?

Has it been completely free of ice at any point since you switched it off? If not, you haven’t left it switched off for long enough. If the problem is that you had it completely defrosted, but the ice built up again very quickly, then it’s probably a faulty thermostat (well, that’s what happened to ours) and will most definitely require a phone call to your landlord.

I'd read this reply again - because you just aren't being clear what the issue is.

Either you aren't defrosting properly ( a you issue) or issue is it's frosting up again as soon as it's put on (a landlord issue).

When we defrost the fridge freezer we empty the fridge and the freezer and turn off at plug - so no lights in there no sound clearly off and put hot boiling metal bowl in freezer bit - ice melts make a mess caught with towels. When it goes back on it doesn't immediately ice up unless the door isn't closed properly (teen issue here or could be door seal issue) or as PP said the a malfunction with the thermostat.

my “concern” is for you LL.

Not you! 😆

I am guessing this might be a fridge- freezer? Stacked? A freezer will only fully defrost if it’s turned off. If you are trying to keep the fridge going, then it sounds like the freezer is also still going🤷‍♀️ In which case, store as much of your fridge food as you can in the coldest place, find someone else to store items like meat, fish. Milk bottles can go in a container full of cold water, kept cold. With luck, you might get a FULLY defrosted freezer in a few hours. Help it along with containers of boiling water, and carefully chip away at ice blocks (use to help keep milk cold).

wtf?!

pile on?

Oh i hope what this LL knows he’s got himself into