Category: House

07/03/2019

How To:

1. Remove crisper drawers
2. Place both hands under glass and lift upwards equally
3. It will pop up so then ease it out towards you from the back corner slots (try gentle wiggling)
4. Pull up at an angle to get out of fridge
5. Clean but DO NOT run cold glass under warm water!!
6. Wipe plastic clean
7. Dry all areas and wait a little until it’s dry before replacing
8. Put glass into the little slots in the back and slide backwards
9. Ease the front glass into place (mine was very a tight fit and needed more firm pressure)
10. Replace drawers!

The long piece of glass above the crisper drawers had all this gunk underneath so I went to try to remove and clean it, but it’s glass and I was afraid to break any part of the fridge. The glass would not lift easily, and I wasn’t sure if it was just sitting or held on by anything else. After much online searching with unsatisfactory results (mostly Samsung vids) I decided to try again and lo and behold: a little bit more pressure did the trick!

The gunk was so sticky that it acted like glue. The 30in LG French-door has little notches in the back corners that hold it in place.

I wriggled it free because it is nice and snug in there, still hyper aware that this is glass. Then pulled out and up. Thank goodness I’d seen the LG caveat about cold glass under warm water because I would definitely have cracked it. Then it was cleaning and drying because water bonds.

When it was time to replace it, I just did it backwards, wiggled it back into the notches. Then I came upon my last hurdle:

One corner fit flush, but the other…

…didn’t. Some pushing, shoving, wriggling resulted in nothing, so I made sure it was as far back as possible and put firm but careful pressure downwards in the corner. *POP* right into place. LG really doesn’t want that glass moving around, that’s for sure! There is a lip that holds the glass in place.

Similar to Drew Scott of the property brothers, I greatly dislike pedestal sinks. It’s wasted space!! You can’t put things on it, if you put things around it, well it just looks messy. Especially in a small townhouse, every bit of storage space is important! The half bath had been bothering me forever. With all the stuff strewn about in there, no one wanted to use it…what an eyesore. It has toilet weirdness too, and yes, it’d be smarter to replace the toilet before the sink for space reasons, but monies, and the vanity was on sale.

This isn’t a normal DIY step by step because I ran into obnoxious issues given that the house is 30 years old and plumbing standards have changed. You’d think I’d remember from the other projects, but alas. Instead, this is just some pictures of what I did and the end result. There is a massive gap in pictures because I got reallllllly frustrated. This was possibly the most sloppy install I’ve done yet. At least it looks so much nicer!! Haven’t permanent-ed anything as of yet. Waiting to make sure there are no leaks. And the caulk I used to secure the top is all wrong. Got loose within the day.