When was the last time you cleaned

[ThePhoenixRises]

Under and behind the fridge/freezer?

I just looked under mine, with a torch, as part of my "find the ants mission"

Its going to take me a while to clean it all tomorrow

Thats if I can even managed to pull it out from the tight gap it's squeezed in.

It was on the 12th.

12th of never.

Soola I recommend not looking under it.

Yeah definitely never

My chest freezer lives in the garage. Last time I went behind it was to check mouse traps/remove bodies. Urgh.

Was just thinking the same. The gap. Between mine and the dishwasher is revolting. Bluergh.

The last time I cleaned the space was before it went in.

The time before that the day we moved in.

Genuine question, what bad thing would happen if you never cleaned it? Is there a reason to pull it out? Or would a quick hoover every 10 years or so, in fact be fine?

Never... They're built into my kitchen cupboards, so I have no access to underneath or behind.

30th of February

One of us cleans it whenever we get a new fridge freezer.

30th of February 😂😂

TahaniAlJamil actually, or are you in character?

Ahhh. Ok. I blame the wine

Once since the new fridge went in last year. Due a clean I guess.

The day it was installed.

The day before it was delivered.

I might actually get away, with using a dry duster under it, to get all the crap out first, then using the duster wet to clean the floor under it, minimising the need to actually move it out.

Once a month to two months. It literally takes only 5-10 minutes. I didn't realize this was such an impossible task.

Ours was delivered just before Christmas so we last cleaned behind it just before Christmas

Never. Good knows what's under there but I'm in no hurry to have a look.

I did clean under the cooker a few weeks ago because I dropped a pen behind it, had to move it, noticed the crap, cleaned it and knocked the pipe. We had to call the gas man out!

January, when we got home from holiday.

Probably should do it again soon.

Fairly frequently, but only because it’s easy to pull out, easier than cleaning around it. In other houses where the fridge hasn’t been easy to pull out - only if it needed to be moved for another reason.

Someone asked what’s the worst that can happen...attracting mice I guess, depending on your house...no so likely in a penthouse apartment as a house backing onto fields.

I did move the fridge out and cleaned under/behind it earlier this year, just on a whim! The freezer is in the storeroom and immoveable.

@Aquamarine1029 pulling the fridge out enough to get the Hoover/ a mop in the space involves taking the radiator off the wall. It is not an easy job.

Of course, a duster or vaccuum cleaner nozzle can be wafted about in the spaces, but it's not exactly cleaning, more removing the worst of the debris.

@SunshineSpring

My refrigerator isn't configured like that. It's self-contained.

When we move house, get a new fridge or have a kitchen extension built, so 3, 13 and 20 years ago.

20 years ago was in response to a mysterious puddle appearing from under the knackered old second hand fridge we started out with and us using that as an excuse to go out and get a new one on interest free credit that we couldn't really afford.

We dragged out said crappy old fridge to release a giant rat that had clearly been living under there for quite a while, judging by the pile of excrement. Rat ran through into the utility room followed by the cat who had probably been responsible for bringing it into the house in the first place and had probably been trying to recatch it since.

We still have that fridge and we might even replace it in the next year or two whether it breaks or not but I'm quite curious as to how long it will last and of course it's far more sensible to let it break suddenly at what is almost certainly going to be an inconvenient moment like the day before we go on holiday or Christmas Eve just after I have filled it with expensive perishables and just after the shops have closed for the holiday.