to ask why anything I put at the back of the fridge ends up partially frozen?

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Is it a fault with the fridge or what?

I disagree. I have a Samsung and get frozen lettuce if it's too close to the back.
Learning what will spoil and what can go at the back of the fridge will probably be the best solution.

Instructions should stipulate that items should not be placed within a range of 2cm of back of fridge in that case.
I will adapt as I can't afford not to.

But I'm not happy.

Also, if stuff is against the back wall of the fridge, you will find it gets soggy as well as frozen as it will be forever cycling between freezing and defrosting. The stuff in the rest of the fridge also won't be cold enough if the air doesn't circulate, which is why the back of the fridge is freezing - there will be a sensor somewhere thinking it isn't cold enough.

My Zanussi does this except it does it to stuff that isn't touching the back wall. Anything in the salad drawer gets frozen solid.

Its bloody annoying

Ours freezes anything in the bottom salad drawer

There's a reason for this! Well, there could be.

Your salad drawer is not in fact a salad drawer. It is a cooling drawer, and freezes things. You need a salad drawer as well!

My mum was having this and that's what the was eventually told. What she thought was a salad drawer was supposed to semi-freeze things. The manufacturer sent her a salad drawer.

Alternatively the freezer is leaking into the fridge and you need it fixed or a new one. This is what happened with our last fridge-freezer. We did put something at the bottom of the fridge to try to act like insulation but it only worked for a short time.

I have a £600 Samsung which does this so can dispel the myth about it happening because it's a cheap fridge.

Ours does this.
Is your freezer needing defrosted?
We defrost freezer and it seems to solve problem.

My last two fridges have done the same!

Current fridge doesn't even keep things particularly cool but likes to freeze anything at the back!

Freezer doesn't need to be defrosted. As I have said, it's brand new. I have it 2 weeks. No frost whatsoever in the freezer.

Chandlers This specimen does exactly the same.

Salad belongs on the top shelf where it's warmest. Meat on the bottom where it's coolest. Also prevents cross contamination e.g. from dripping meat juices. I thought it was common knowledge to never allow food to touch the back wall of the fridge or else it freezes.

We have a Samsung too which is about 18 months old which doesn't do it. Though I did recently have to turn the temperature up as things were getting frozen. But it doesn't make a difference if stuff is touching the back wall or not. From last ancient fridge we're already in the habit of avoiding that anyway, so it's only if it happens by accident, but I had some frozen mushrooms last week so I've changed it from 3 degrees to 5 degrees and it seems better.

Ours has an extra-cold drawer and a salad drawer! The extra cold drawer has a picture of meat in it but we have found that we forget meat left in there so we use it to chill drinks instead before they are opened.