Thanks for your video. Done this 3 times in 4 months. Used a hair dryer to defrost ice, then hot water from microwave poured into funnel to melt drain ice (~4 cups). Then used air compressor blowing into drain line to make sure no trash in drain line. Was able to use a piece of 16 ga. wire to wrap over heating element then into drain hole to prevent reoccurrence. Also used air compressor to blow dust out back of frig. after removing 4 screws from cardboard back panel. Don't understand why this began happening after 15 years (2007 model) other than this problem has been a good frig. Thanks again for the wire/heating element idea.😀
This helped us tremendously. My refrigerator looked exactly like this. My son and I were able to follow this video step by step and solved our problem! This video was easy to understand. Thanks.
I bought a steamer, and it was a good idea, got rid of the ice in no time. I had the rubber boot on the bottom of the drain line, it was plugged up, so I took it off. Thanks so much, your video is a gem.
I was able to do this myself and I now feel very accomplished. I’m hoping that was the fix I needed. I’ll be monitoring the next couple days. Thanks so much for the tutorial!
Awesome video. I’ve done this repair many times on whirlpools but never thought to use the steamer. Is it possible for you to provide a link for the steamer and extension? Thanks for another great tip! Wait.. just saw it in the description. My bad 🤦♂️
I don’t have a brazing rod and don’t feel like buying the other part. So the paper clip does work? I just did this 3 weeks ago and it’s leaking and frozen again.
Is there a way to reasonably get warm water up the return from the back or bottom? I know it sounds ridiculous but I am trying to avoid ruining my food while I'm taking it all apart. It's a garage fridge so all of our meat and ice cream is in there. I have a cooler I can transfer to but not quite big enough. I have a garment steamer that should make fast work of the problem but if I can melt it out from the back or bottom with some ingenuity, I'm with that too. I'm hypothesizing the drain tube runs all the way to the bottom pan somewhere and was thinking if I squirt some warm water up there and then blow air thru it, maybe it'd melt. But maybe it would just freeze the tube more 😂 Edit: forgot to mention, I'm in Phoenix. There is no "just set it down for a few, it only takes 10 mins". Assuming the process went perfectly, 10 mins here is enough to melt ice cream. Although maybe I could throw that in the cooler and put the meat in the house for a few 🤔
This has been very helpful in helping me diagnose what is wrong with a Whirlpool ER2CHMXPL00 Fridge we just got a few weeks ago. Cools and freezes great until the coils freeze over. I defrosted it once, and it happened again. Found your video. Defrosted it again and cleared the drain line. Then it did it again, Now I am looking into the defrost components. The Defrost element has continuity. I was watching another video about what to check next, but it's a different kind of fridge. It says check the thermistor and bi-metal defrost. I see the bi-metal, but I do not see a thermistor. I did find a connector that has nothing coming out of it that is plugged into a connector receiver that has a black and a white wire coming from it. Is that where the thermistor is supposed to be? the part that is coming up when I look up this model and the word thermistor looks like it has a different connection. Any help would be very appreciated.
The brazing rod is connected to the defroster and will keep it the drain hole from freezing in the future? I have a roll of 16AWG copper wire from an old alarm panel that I might try first since I have that laying around. And I'll be getting a steamer. Thank you.
Great video. Unfortunately for me, there was no ice or blockage. I was able to pour warm water into the drain and it made it to the refrigerator pan. I did notice some rust under the freezer drain pan which makes me think some of the water is going under the pan rather than into the drain pipe. Not really sure how I can fix that.
Most people still need to keep their foods cold but if you don't have that need then that'd work and be much easier. You might still need to check his other video for unplugging the boot at the end of the drain line though if you see a bunch of water in your freezer after you let it thaw.
I have a 2021 Whirlpool 11.6 Cu. Ft. top Freezer Refrigerator. I went thru the artic freeze (-36) this last winter. The drain was frozen and kept spilling water into the refrigerator. The weather finally got into the upper 80's. I left my refrigerator outside for 6 hours. All the ice melted away. The drain tube cleared and now water was in the evaporation pan. I plugged the fridge back in. Seams to be working better. No ice built up so far.
Thank you for this video. This is not my model of fridge, but I'm betting the same dumb design of hiding the drain is causing water to back up into the refrigerator and leak out the top. I'll look at your other videos for model WRF535smbw00
We recently moved to another place. We never had this problem at our old residence. The amount of water on the floor alseems excessive. The bottom of our fridge becomes flooded as well as our kitchem floor. How is it collecting so much moisture? And why does it make a whistle noise when you close it? It looks like its sucking the door closed.
on your video, you talked about a rubber boot at the end of the drain line and said to watch the video of it, but I do not see that viede. We have a newer model whirlpool and the water is pooling under the crisper trays (side by side w/ bottom freezer). There is no water in the freezer, just the fridge. Is there a link to that video?
Mine is from 2004 and just started with the water coming in the top shelf of fridge. Could I just use a hairdryer or a steamer without taking everything apart? Do I need to put that rod? What is that for?
Refer to 2:29, check if you have one of those pieces, if not then get one. It will conduct heat directly to the drain and melt any ice at the opening. Otherwise you might have something other than ice clogging it like food or it is somehow freezing later down in the line but I doubt that
Ok not even quite 3 weeks ago I found your video because my fridge did the same thing and took it apart like you said but didn’t do the rod and I’ll be damn it’s doing it again! This fridge is from 2004 I think, it was my parents and I took theirs when we sold their house because theirs was better and my mom never had these issues. What’s causing this all of a sudden? Do I need that rod? And yes I do realize it’s getting old. I don’t understand why it’s building up the ice so much. 😩
The drain line is freezing over. Got to make sure it's fully thawed out. The rod transfers heat down the drain line 'helping' it not to freeze over again. The drain line could have some blockage in it as well
@@ApartmentMaintenanceProyeah I did thaw everything with my hair dryer as that was all I had to do quickly. I even ran water and it went thru so now I guess I’ll get that brazing rod and try that. Right now I just have a bowl in the fridge catching everything and what’s weird is the bowl that’s in my fridge catching the water is frozen. Not sure why it does that either. But thanks for the response!
Sooooo I've seen that done 100's of times and it always fails, because I only see copper wire on these when I do call backs. IF you go the wire route go aluminum 10 gauge or more non-strand (if you can find it).
