I'm just so desperate for options because my landlord isn't doing shit to fix this issue and I can't find info on my model to do it myself. What happens if I just unplug it? Does the air stop circulating the gross smell into the fridge or does it make things worse?
[USA-NY] So basically my fridge started smelling bad like 4 months ago. But very subtly. I thought I had rotten food so I cleaned it thoroughly. The smell only got WORSE. Now it's absolutely unusable, I can't open it for even a second without it flooding my entire unit with the most disgusting thing I've ever smelled.
There's no way in hell it's rotten food when I disinfected AND cleared my fridge completely of food like two weeks ago. The maintenance guy came and the only thing he had to say was that it didn't "smell like chemicals", insisted it was just rotted food, and closed my ticket. He said this at the same time that there was zero food in my fridge. I'm baffled.
This isn't a normal smell at all. I have NEVER let food go bad in all the time I've lived here. There's no reason for it to only get worse. It's INSIDE my fridge too, not behind or under it, so I have no clue what the fuck is wrong.
I opened another ticket, but if they just keep dismissing it as rotten food without even checking what the source is, which they don't seem to care to do, then what are my options to get this fixed? I'm not allowed to replace the fridge myself, and I can't afford any legal anything's, btw.
-------Update: maintenance guy came when I had to nap bc I was exhausted from staying awake waiting for this idiot and HE LEFT BEFORE GIVING ME A CHANCE TO PUT ON PANTS. He said it's still rotten food :/ in an empty fridge. That's been deep cleaned.
I'm severely suspecting a filter issue cuz they haven't been changed in 3 years. So now I have a question, if I unplug the fridge is that gonna stop the circulation of that stagnant air or will it make things worse?