RV Refrigerator Safety and Preventative Maintenance

Recreational Vehicle refrigerators take a lot of abuse and consider if your refrigerator at home was moved to a new location each day or had Earthquake jarring every couple of days? Well, I say to you that this is indeed a good analogy because some of the roads in this country are in a state of disrepair in some places.

It is for this reason that you need to consider some facts about; RV Refrigerator Safety and Preventative Maintenance. First, most RVs use a combination of gas and electricity and those can be a somewhat dangerous combination when problems occur. A spark or short could cause a fire and the gas would keep feeding it until there was an explosion. Therefore it is recommended by most RV Refrigerator Manufacturers for your safety that if you smell gas;

• Open the windows for ventilation
• Do Not touch electrical switches
• Turn off stoves or any open flames
• Do Not Smoke
• Call an RV repair or LP-Gas supplier

For preventative maintenance play it smart and take an air hose and blow out the dust behind your refrigerator and clean up the debris on a routine basis. I do mine about every 4 months on a checklist. If your refrigerator stops working it is best to have it looked at because the main electrical brain could be bad or there could be a short, which is dangerous. Please consider all this in 2006.