The door is difficult to open.
Chest freezer door hard to open.
Opening your freezer door allows warm air to enter and cold air to escape.
The solution is to create a tiny air gap in the door gasket.
The freezer should totally do this especially a new one with clean tight door seals.
When the freezer door is opened warm air rushes in side.
When you close the door the air is cooled and its specific volume is reduced.
It may seem like your freezer door is sticking or the fridge door seal sticking when it is really just the vacuum system doing its job.
Hello donna and thanks for the inquiry about the freezer lid being hard to open.
Posted by namlit at 10 38 pm on october 13 2019.
This will cause the door to be hard to open for about 10 to 15 seconds after closing.
When the door is closed the warm air mixing with the cold air creates a vacuum causing the doors to be harder to re open.
This additional heat will expand the air inside somewhat which should increase the pressure to the point where the door can.
Sometimes a good rough opening the door move is enough to unblock the duct.
This can be done by placing a very small object on the lid surface so.
Ok so if it is in fact defrosted and the door will still not open then you may have something that has fallen and is jamming the door baskets which means you will need to force the door open.
This is not uncommon when the warm air that enters the freezer with door open cools down the air molecules contract causing the lock.
If not anything else the warm air gets chilled down rapidly and shrinks pulling the door tight.
But i suspect that the freezer still had not fully defrosted and that is why the door will not open.
When you close the door the warm air is se.
If your refrigerator or freezer door is hard to open due to a vacuum there are a couple of ways to get the freezer to open itself.
Press your finger into the inside of a corner of the door seal to release some suction and make it easier to open the door soon after closing it.
One minute before opening the door again if it has just been.
The easiest way is to turn the temperature up inside the freezer by a couple of degrees.
When you close the door all the warm air rushes to the evaporator which causes a vacuum.
When you open the door of a vertical freezer all the cold air flows out onto the floor of the room remember cold air is denser than warm air.
The door must be pulled hard before it opens.
The cold air that flows out is replaced by warm room air.
Was the door just opened.
Allow the internal pressure to equalize before re opening the door this should take less than a 1 minute.