Falls Church notes
Freezers in Falls Church kitchens
Two requests listed on this page show how different freezer problems can be. A Samsung in Lincolnia had a freezer that wouldn't get cold enough to freeze food, which usually comes down to an evaporator fan, a defrost fault, a worn door seal or dirty condenser coils. The other was a Sub-Zero built-in freezer column in Old Town Alexandria with a broken ice-level arm, so it stopped making ice and the drawer stuck open.
The second one shows how a freezer problem can start somewhere small. The arm on an ice maker tells it when the bin is full. When the arm breaks, the ice maker can overfill or stop, and on some models the bin or drawer won't close properly. A drawer that doesn't close lets warm, humid air in, and frost builds quickly.
In Falls Church's apartments and condos, the kitchen freezer is usually the only one, so a failure matters more. Keep the door closed and move what you can into a cooler with ice until we get there.
Older houses in Pimmit Hills and the City sometimes have a chest freezer in the basement as well. Those are simpler machines with fewer parts to fail, and many of them are worth fixing.