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.