GE Monogram 36 User Manual
Monogram.
Use and Care Guide
for 36,42,48
Built-In
Refrigerators
Introduction
Your new Monogram refrigerator makes an eloquent statement of style,
convenience and kitchen planning flexibility. Whether you chose it for its
purity of design, practical storage arrangements or assiduous attention to
detail—or for all of these reasons—you’ll find that your Monogram
refrigerator’s superior blend of form and function will delight you for
years to come.
The Monogram refrigerator was designed to provide the flexibility to blend
in with your kitchen
match your kitchen cabinets or blend with your kitchen decor. Custom
handles are also available to further personalize your refrigerator. Through a
series of product and trim kit choices, the Monogram refrigerator can be
beautifully integrated into the kitchen.
Since this is designed to be a built-in product, custom panels are required
on the front of the Monogram refrigerator. Consult your kitchen designer or
cabinetmaker for your customized look.
The information on the following pages will help you operate and maintain
your refrigerator properly.
For more information, please refer to the following publications:
Product Planning and
Installation Information
Installation Instructions
Trim Options and Instructions 49-6458
These can be obtained from a GE Monogram dealer. For a listing of
dealers—or if you have other questions—please call the GE Answer
Center” (800.626.2000).
cabinetry.
Decorative door insert panels allow it to
24-MO02
36 49-6473
42 49-6462
48 49-6457
Contenti
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Appliance Registration .................3
Care and Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Condenser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Drawer/Cover Removal .......16
Light Bulb Replacement ......15
Vacation Tips .......................16
Consumer Services .....................22
Food Storage Suggestions ..........10
Storage Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ice and Water Dispenser ...........6–9
Installation .................................17
Adapter Plug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Clearances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Electrical Requirements .......17
Grounding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Leveling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
13–16
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10
17
17
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Model and Serial Numbers ...........3
Power Saver Switch ......................5
Problem Solver .....................18–20
Safety Instructions ........................4
Shelves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...........12
Storage Drawers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Temperature Controls ...................5
Water Filter Accessory .................9
Warranty .....................................23
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Read this book carefully.
It is intended to help you operate and maintain your new refrigerator properly.
Keep it handy for answers to your questions.
If you don’t understand something or need more help, write (include your
phone number):
Consumer Affairs
GE Appliances
Appliance Park
Louisville, KY 40225
Write down the model and serial number.
You’ll see them on a label on the right side, near the bottom of the fresh
food compartment.
These numbers are also on the Consumer Product Ownership Registration
Card that came with your refrigerator. Before sending in this card, please
write these numbers here:
Model Number
Serial Number
Use these numbers in any
correspondence or service calls
concerning your refrigerator.
If you received a damaged refrigerator...
Immediately contact the dealer (or builder) that sold you the refrigerator.
Save time and money. Before you request service...
Check the Problem Solver in the back of this book. It lists causes of minor
operating problems that you can correct yourself.
If you need service...
To obtain service, see the
Consumer Services page in the
back of this book.
We’re proud of our service and
want you to be pleased. If for some
reason you are not happy with the
service you receive, here are 3
steps to follow for further help.
FIRST, contact the people who
serviced your appliance. Explain
why you are not pleased. In most
cases, this will solve the problem.
NEXT, if you are still not pleased,
write all the details—including
your phone number—to:
Manager, Consumer Relations
GE Appliances
Appliance Park
Louisville, KY 40225
FINALLY, if your problem is still
not resolved, write:
Major Appliance Consumer
Action Panel
20 North
Chicago, IL 60606
Wacker
Drive
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Set Temperature Controls
YOUR
REFNGEMTOR
Your refrigerator has two controls
that let you regulate the temperature
in the fresh food and freezer
compartments.
They have settings from 1 through
9, and are located at the top of the
fresh food compartment.
The freezer control also has
an OFF setting.
9 is the coldest setting, 1 is the warmest.
How to Test Temperatures
Use the milk test for the fresh
food compartment. Place a
container of milk on the top shelf
in the fresh food compartment.
Check it a day later. If the milk is
too warm or too cold, adjust the
temperature controls.
WHEN YOU FIRST TURN THE
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Use the ice cream test for the
freezer compartment. Place a
center of the freezer compartment.
Check it after a day. If it’s too
Containeroficecreaminthe
hard or too soft, adjust the
temperature controls.
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FRESH
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FREEZER
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ON, SET BOTH CONTROLS AT 5.
For colder or warmer temperatures, adjust the desired
compartment control 1 number at a time.
IMPOR
adjusting them, allow 24 hours for the refrigerator
to get cold.
NOTE:
position stops cooling in BOTH
fresh food AND freezer—but does not shut off
power to the refrigerator.
TANT
When first setting controls, or
:
~rning
the freezer control to the OFF
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REFWGERATOR
compartments—
Power Saver Switch
The power saver switch is located
on the temperature control panel.
To reduce the amount of electricity required
to operate your refrigerator, push switch to
POWER SAVER setting.
This turns off the heater in your refrigerator that
prevents moisture from forming on the outside of the
refrigerator.
With the heater turned off, there is a chance that
moisture may form on the outside of your refrigerator,
especially when the weather is humid.
The humidity is most likely to be high in the summer,
in the early morning hours, and in homes which are
not air conditioned.
No Defrosting
It is not necessary to defrost the freezer or fresh food
compartments. Although your refrigerator is designed
and equipped to defrost itself automatically, some
frost on packages is normal.
Over an extended period of time, moisture that forms
on the refrigerator surface may cause deterioration of
the paint finish. It will be important to protect the
finish by using appliance polish wax as described in
the Care and Cleaning section.
Move the power saver switch from the POWER
SAVER setting and electricity flows through the low
wattage heater which warms the outside of the
refrigerator. Under most conditions, this prevents the
forming of moisture or water droplets.
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ICE &
C~LLED
WATER DISPENSER
(on some models)
Automatic
Some models have an automatic icemaker and a
dispenser that dispenses chilled water, ice cubes and
crashed ice through the freezer compartment door.
Here’s how they work.
Water flows from the
household supply
through a
(1) dual solenoid valve
to the
(2) water reservoir and
to the
(3) automatic icemaker
as needed.
Important
*
Your icemaker
approximately 120
period+epending on
temperature,
openings
*
lntermitt~nt dispensing of ice is normal. If ice
flow
intemption is
may
be
● Avoid over-filling glasses with ice and using
narrow or
chute or
Icemaker
Facts
will
and Ice & Chilled Water Dispenser
About Your
produce 8 cubes per
cubes in a 24-hour
freezer
room
temperature, number of door
and
other use conditions.
more
than brief, ice clump(s)
the cause
cause the
and
extra-bll
door in
should be
glasses.
Ice & Chtiled
cycle
com~artment
removed.
This can
the
chute to freeze shut.
jam
the
Periodically open the freezer compartment door
look down into the
and
chute,
poke it through with a
● Ice
shodd
fine china or
or
chip
pressing them against the cradle and ice dropping
into
not be dispensed into thin glass,
deliate
from
the combi~ed
tie
container.
chute. If
crystal-they can crack
ice
is blocking the
wooden spoon.
pressure of the hand
Water is frozen
(4) cube mold and ejected into the
(5) storage bin where a motor-powered auger moves
cubes forward into the dispensing unit. Cubes or
crushed ice, as selected, dispense through chute in
door when cradle is pressed.
When the switch is moved to CRUSHED, the baffle
in housing channels cubes through the crusher and
crushed
Chilled water from reservoir flows through the
(6) tubing in the door and is dispensed when the
(7)
ice falls through chute into glass.
cradle is pressed.
A. light switch
dispenser on and off.
in the
turns the night light in the
Water Dispenser
~
Ice
should be
soda or other beverage mixes.
splashing which is annoying and
splash
reaches the
could cause it to stick or bind.
*
To help keep bits of ice from being
sprayed beyond the glass,
to ice
chute—but
coming ice.
*
Beverages wd foods
in the ice storage bin.
packages in the storage
icemaker
●
Ice
other than that produced by your icemaker
should
ma:y
not crush or dispense well.
dispensed before fi~ing
This will prevent
which,
ice and water
selector switch,
place glass close
not
so close that it blocks out-
shotid
not be quick-chilled
Cans,
bottles or food
bin
may cause the
to malfunction.
not
be added to the ice storage bin—it
glass
if
the
with
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Before Using Your
Icemaker
and Dispenser
If you use your refrigerator
before the water connection is
made, raise the ice access door
and make sure the
feeler arm is in the STOP (up)
position as shown below.
When water supply has b
connected to
move feeler arm to ON
(down) position.
Move selector switch to
CHILLED WATER and
depress dispenser cradle
for about 2 minutes to
remove trapped air from t
water line and to fill water reservoir automatically.
Once Your
Throw away the first few batches of ice cubes
(16 or 24 cubes). This will flush away any impurities
in the water line. Do the same thing after vacations or
extended periods when ice isn’t used.
Discard the first 6
This will eliminate the slight “plastic” taste temporarily
imparted to the water by the water reservoir.
icemaker
icemaker,
Icemaker
glassfuls
(up)
n
and Dispenser are in Operation
of water in the kitchen sink.
arm in
Ice cube mold automatic
fills with water after
cooling to freezing
temperatures. First
cubes normally freeze
after several hours.
NOTE: With a
installed refrigerator,
allow about 24 hours for
the freezer compartment to cool down to the proper
ice-making temperature.
Keep ice level to keep icemaker productive.
ejected into an empty storage bin will pile up close to
the icemaker and push the feeler arm up to the STOP
position prematurely when the bin is only partially full.
Open the ice access door, reach in, level the cubes by
hand and
distributed evenly will allow the
enough ice to fill the bin to its maximum capacity.
icemaking
newly-
Cubes
will resume. Keeping cubes
icemaker to produce
in
To Dispense Ice and Water
For ice, set selector
switch to CUBED,
CRUSHED or
CHILLED WATER.
CAUTION: Never put fingers or other objects into the ice crusher discharge opening.
Grip glass or
other container
gently near the
rim and press rim
firmly against
dispenser cradle.
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ICE &
CH~LED
WATER DISPENSER
(continued)
When Dispensing Ice...
Some crushed ice may be dispensed even
though you selected CUBED. This happens
occasionally when
channeled to the crusher.
Sometimes a mound of snow will form on the
door in the ice chute. This condition is normal, and
usually occurs when you have dispensed crushed ice
repeatedly.
The snow will eventually evaporate.
a few cubes accidentally get
To Stop Dispensing
Release pressure from cradle and withdraw S1OW1
to catch
Some slight dripping may occur following dispensing
of crushed ice or chilled water. If excessive, the spill
should be wiped dry immediately.
Do not pour water in spill shelf because it is not
self-draining-pour it in the kitchen sink. The shelf
and its grille should be cleaned regularly according to
the Care and Cleaning section.
~ast
bits of ice or drops of water.
V
‘
When Dispensing Water...
The water system provides approximately 6
successive 6-ounce
hours must be allowed for replenished water reservoir
supply to cool. You probably will not drain all the
chilled water from the reservoir on a single occasion.
The first glass of water dispensed maybe warmer
than the following ones. This is normal.
Dispensed water is chilled, not iced. For colder
water, simply add crushed ice or cubes before
dispensing water.
Ir
glassfuls—after which several
If Ice Clumps Form in Storage Bin...
The icemaker ejects cubes in groups of 8, and it
is normal for several cubes to be joined together.
However, infrequent usage of ice can cause ice
clumps to form in the storage bin, resulting in
temporary malfunction of the dispenser mechanism.
To Remove Ice Cube Storage Bin
Lift the left corner to free the bin from the shelf,
and pull the bin straight out while supporting it at
front and back.
If this happens:
● Remove storage bin from freezer compartment.
● Break up ice clumps with fingertip pressure and
discard remaining clumps.
● Replace bin before remaining cubes melt and
fuse together.
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