You've finally installed your fridge, and you're using extensively, stocking up on food to unleash the creative cook in you, but at some point you realise that actually you could have installed it somewhere else.
That is not a problem, of course, you gather some help and you move your fridge into its new, perfect postion; at this point you realise that to use it properly, you should be able to open it in the opposite direction as before.
Well rest assured in a couple of easy steps you will be able to turn the situation around, and reinstall the door in the most comfortable way for you to use.
The tools you will need are:
- A flat heat driver
- A Phillips head driver
- 11mm wrench
- 8mm socket wrench
- 5mm allen wrench
+ A hinge cover, and a cap space door
Let's see the process in detail!
- Remove the power and check the inside. Make sure the fridge is disconnected from the electrical socket, and that is completely empty before you start working on it
- Using the flat head driver, remove the cover hinge to push a hook
- Remove the cover wire and cap door L
- Disconnect the cables that go from the fridge body to the door
- Remove two phillips screws from the upper hinge (be careful not to damage the wire during operation)
- Have someone to support the door for you, as it can be heavy!
- Remove the fridge door from the middle hinge as well
- Disassemble the middle hinge using the allen wrench and the phillips driver
- Remove the freezer door from the bottom hinge
- Switch the position of the cap on the doors
- Switch side of the bottom hinge inside the door and put the screws back in
- Lay the fridge down on its back
- Remove the feet and the bottom hinge attached to the refrigerator
- Switch the position of cap screw between the fridge and the freezer
- Reinstall the middle hinge on the opposite side of the fridge
- Install the freezer door in the middle hinge
- Reinstall the bottom hinge on the opposite side, securing the freezer door, being careful of switching the screws properly
- Reinstall the feet
- Switch the door wire direction to the opposite side
- Put the fridge back in vertical position
- Assemble the cap space door
- Change the positon of the fridge and freezer door gasket
- Insert the cover wire door
- Put the door back in place, and insert the top hinge
- Have someone to support the door for you, as it can be heavy!
- Connect the cables back together
- Assemble the cap control
- Do not plug in the refrigerator as soon as finished, but wait for at leas an hour!
It might look challenging, but following the steps carefully, and taking a look at the video below, will help you sort this matter out in no time.
