💦 Freezer Water Leak Guide (Complete Solution) 

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@@PhillipBridgesReviews Mine has leak rn from both freezer and fridge. a drawing is soaked and i saw its coming from the Water fountain for water and ice.

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that's what I did

I hope that works, I have a 25 year old Amana, o videos, and no clue how to get the back panel out..right now, just letting it de ice by unplugging

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Awesome! Glad to help out!

This is my second time around about a year later and it was really filled with ice (so it looks like I have to do this about 2x year to keep the ice from building up too much). Anyway, this time, after melting the ice with a hair dryer, when I put about a cup of hot water down the drain, it cleared but it may have overflowed the drain pan since there's now a pool of water on the garage floor (the floor is not the issue). My question is, if I accidentally poured too much water down the drain and the drain pan got that full that it overflowed, will the condensor eventually evaporate it because if the drain pan is accessed from the back, there no way I can get to the back of our 2008 upright frigidaire freezer. Thanks for you help.@@PhillipBridgesReviews

@@robine.levine9619 if the refrigerator is working correctly. The condenser should slowly evaporate the water from the pan.

@@PhillipBridgesReviews Thanks so much for replying. Yes, freezer is working fine, just think I added too much water down drain hole.

It seems, every once a while I have to do this. Not sure if I pack to much product on lower shelf that causes this.

Yes, most definitely. Usually hair dryers has a GFCI on it. But some may not.

It’s a random thing that can happen to your freezer. It’s good to know how to quickly fix it. 😎

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Usually it’s little food particles or a piece of ice that doesn’t defrost all the way and get clogged in the drain line when the freezer goes through a defrost cycle. It’s seems to be kind of like a roll of the dice. I have had it happen twice in the seven years I have had my freezer. I try to wipe down and clean out my freezer about twice a year. Usually, when the time change happens. So it doesn’t happen. *side note* when I do clean it out, I pour a cup of hot water down the drain just to free up anything. The times it has clogged I neglected to do this. This seems to work for me. Hopefully it helps you out. Thanks for watching 😃

@@PhillipBridgesReviews I did the same repair today. There is a replacement drain tube kit put out by the manufacturer which is better than the original to keep it from clogging up. Hopefully, mine won't be clogging up and having to take the freezer apart to thaw it out again.

Look up (Freezer Heat Probe) it clips directly onto the heating element and keeps the drain hole just warm enough to keep it open. I just used a thick copper wire and haven't had any problems since.

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It might be the condenser fan. Also, just to make sure the drip pan is seated properly. It could be the simple things. 😀. Hope this helps

Glad it helped you out 👍🏻

I just did this tonight with success. You saved me $350.00😎

@@Mukundanghri 😉

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Dixie Odie* They just don’t make things as good as they used to 😕. But I also suspect that this leaking problem may be more common in the freezers made with an automatic defrost system. Seems like they just traded one inconvenience for another one.🙄 Or worse… it created a big expense for some people who may have given up and just replaced their freezer 🙁💸

@@laurice8056 Agreed. And there's the expense resulting from the damage that can occur with leakage and the price for a repairman (if you can find one), both of which I can speak to personally.

We have a very old fridge, probably from the 90's and that think keeps running perfectly. Currently a fairly new Samsung fridge and it's been leaking for quite awhile, now our 2 year old fridge is leaking. New fridges aren't like the old ones. Everything was made so well back in the day!

Possibly. Sometimes there could be a piece of food particle lodged in the drain. The hot water can loosen it up. Just keep that in mind. 👍🏻

Oh no. Hopefully it gets up and running soon.

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Took 20 minutes .

Yes. I would say once you start seeing water on the floor. I actually just did mine again 2 weeks ago. That was the first time it happened since I made the video.

This was the first time in 8 years. So way over due I'm thinking

Try a cup of hot water. Pour it in the bottom of the freezer. It will help you find that drain hole. Ice can sometimes cover up that drain.

@@PhillipBridgesReviews I’ll give that a shot, I just scraped all the ice out and didn’t see anything, I’ll have to give it another go tomorrow. So far I don’t see anymore water dripping, and it was pretty steady before I removed the ice 🤷🏻‍♀️

A freezer running all the time might have a thermostat problem or the condenser fan motor isn’t working , not allowing air to be circulated causing the freezer to run all the time. I would look into that.

@@PhillipBridgesReviews I replaced the defrost timer . My freezer was running all the time ,staying to cold and dripping water on the floor. The new defrost timer resolved all the problems. That part was very easy to change too !!! Thank you !!!!

@@jabneel7 awesome 👍🏻. I’m glad you got it fixed.

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I would check to see if there is anything in the defrost tube that is blocking water being drained down to the condenser. Like maybe a piece of foam from packaging. Also, I know you said it’s new but still check the evaporation pan. It might have a hair line crack that is allowing water to leak onto the floor. How full is the freezer? Sometimes I have found that I put a bulky item in the way and is restricting the circulation of air causing the temperature not cool properly. Move things around if that is the case. Check the coils too. Make sure dust or a piece of packaging from shipping is not stuck around there. Those are my thoughts. Thanks for an awesome question. 😎

My chest freezer did this a while back. I once again used my trusty hair dryer. I used it around the door seals. It took a few minutes then I grabbed a little crowbar and popped it open. Then used the crowbar to break off the ice build up once I got it open.

@@PhillipBridgesReviews I've burned up1 hair dryer and used acrowbar to no avail

Simply let the fridge defrost over night, next a.m problem solved.

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Still what a great helpful video thank you

You don't cook it after? Bacteria dies after you cook it. Unless it's rotting.