--- title: "Refrigerator error code CF" description: "LG refrigerator error code CF: The condenser is the coil that throws the heat away, and it needs air moving across it to do that." url: "https://lgmiami.support/error-codes/refrigerator-condenser-fan/" date_modified: "2026-09-05" Appliance type: "Freezers, Refrigerators" --- # Refrigerator error code CF ### What CF means on this make The condenser is the coil that throws the heat away, and it needs air moving across it to do that. LG puts a fan there and a sensor on the fan, so when the blade stops — a bearing, a blockage, or something that fell into the machine room — the refrigerator says so rather than quietly getting warmer. What follows if it is left is predictable: the compressor runs longer and longer trying to hold a temperature it cannot reach, the cabinet drifts up a degree at a time, and the electricity bill goes up before the food goes off. In this city the ordinary cause is not the fan. It is what has built up around it, because a machine-room fan in a coastal kitchen pulls in dust, hair and salt air for years. ### The other ways LG prints this one CF · Er CF · E CF LG publishes a condition and then every string that can stand for it, and which one your machine shows depends on the panel it was built with — OE, E03 and E21 are one condition on a washer, and Er dS, F dS and r dS are one sensor on different evaporators. They are one page here, so whichever of them you searched for, this is the right page. ### Where this appears, and why not to clear it On the appliance’s own display. LG reports errors two ways: machines with a digital display show a code, and the laundry machines without one blink their indicator lights instead. Both are published by the maker and both are on this site. Photograph what the panel shows before cutting the power. On a refrigerator you can also force the last code back onto the display by holding Freezer Temperature and Express Frz together for three seconds — LG documents that, and it is the one thing that makes a first visit more useful. A code that has been reset is information a technician no longer has. ### What to do about it - Pull the refrigerator out and take the lower back panel off. Most of these are visible from there — a blade jammed on a wire, or a mat of dust across the coil. - Vacuum the condenser coil and the fan housing properly. Do not just brush the front of it. - Cut the power for five minutes and restore it. A code that clears and stays clear was a blockage; one that comes back is the motor or the board. - If it returns, stop opening the doors more than you must and book the visit — a cabinet running without condenser air is a cabinet losing food. ### Where this goes next The job this usually becomes is [diagnostic visit](/services/diagnostic-visit/), and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 419-0291](tel:+13054190291) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything. Condenser fan What this one means What CF means on this make The condenser is the coil that throws the heat away, and it needs air moving across it to do that. LG puts a fan there and a sensor on the fan, so when the blade stops — a bearing, a blockage, or something that fell into the machine room — the refrigerator says so rather than quietly getting warmer. What follows if it is left is predictable: the compressor runs longer and longer trying to hold a temperature it cannot reach, the cabinet drifts up a degree at a time, and the electricity bill goes up before the food goes off. In this city the ordinary cause is not the fan. It is what has built up around it, because a machine-room fan in a coastal kitchen pulls in dust, hair and salt air for years. The other ways LG prints this one CF · Er CF · E CF LG publishes a condition and then every string that can stand for it, and which one your machine shows depends on the panel it was built with — OE, E03 and E21 are one condition on a washer, and Er dS, F dS and r dS are one sensor on different evaporators. They are one page here, so whichever of them you searched for, this is the right page. Where this appears, and why not to clear it On the appliance’s own display. LG reports errors two ways: machines with a digital display show a code, and the laundry machines without one blink their indicator lights instead. Both are published by the maker and both are on this site. Photograph what the panel shows before cutting the power. On a refrigerator you can also force the last code back onto the display by holding Freezer Temperature and Express Frz together for three seconds — LG documents that, and it is the one thing that makes a first visit more useful. A code that has been reset is information a technician no longer has. What to do about it Pull the refrigerator out and take the lower back panel off. Most of these are visible from there — a blade jammed on a wire, or a mat of dust across the coil. Vacuum the condenser coil and the fan housing properly. Do not just brush the front of it. Cut the power for five minutes and restore it. A code that clears and stays clear was a blockage; one that comes back is the motor or the board. If it returns, stop opening the doors more than you must and book the visit — a cabinet running without condenser air is a cabinet losing food. Where this goes next The job this usually becomes is diagnostic visit, and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 419-0291](tel:+13054190291) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything. --- **[Read full article: Refrigerator error code CF](https://lgmiami.support/error-codes/refrigerator-condenser-fan/)**