How To Clean Refrigerator Condenser Coils Fast & Easy! -Jonny DIY 

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I like to tackle this job once every pandemic or so.😂

Just bought my first home and finally have my own fridge. Didn’t know this needed to be done. Thanks!

I just purchased a home 2 days ago and now the refrigerator has a loud humm. A quick search suggested cleaning the coils. I found this video and followed your instructions. Now the fridge is almost whisper quiet. Great video.

Just want to thank Jonny for helping me and my son tackle this job. I was going to grab a fridge dolly and take it outside and blow it down with the air compressor but we ended up using the shop vac along with some brushes for cleaning hummingbird feeders and it worked great. My fridge is now running so much cooler that I had to turn it down a notch and still have ice cold beer. Thanks again.

Ah. A no bullshit DIY with no frills. Thanks Jonny

My refrigerator used to be my aunts, that she kept OUTDOORS for years. I never knew I have to clean the coils, and it has been working fabulous until recently I noticed it’s not cooling as it usually does. I just opened the back and saw so much dust and debris that I was pouring out of the cardboard cover… leaves dust hair you name it! After using a swiffer duster, butter knife wrapped with a microfiber towel, vaccuum hose with a straw taped to it, and a tooth brush, im proud to say it almost looks brand new again. Now we wait a few hours and see if this did justice :) thank you!

Thanks - my fridge seems to tell me by getting noisier when it’s too dusty - amazing how much it suck into the coils - nice channel 👍👍

Thanks. You just save me a lot of money, time and trouble.

My refrigerator was humming like crazy this cleaning brought it back to normal.

Came for the advice, stayed for the Metallica muscle shirt and laid back voice. 🤘Easy sub, bud!

Little ashamed to say this but I bought my house almost three years ago and didn’t even think about cleaning my refrigerator coils until tonight. Thanks for the straight forward tutorial, though I definitely need to buy a brush to finish cleaning mine this week.

Its currently 1:23am 😆 yup ... getting all things needed to do it right now lol. Short and straight to the point Thanks 👍

Our energy company had this as a tip on how to save energy so i looked it up and it brought me here. Looks very simple, and the benefits will be well worth it! Thanks alot

We have a Frigidaire from the 80's that was maintained first by my dad who was a handyman who dabbled in appliance repair as a way to make extra money, and now by me. I'm 52 years old and have had the thing running almost constantly for about 20 years. No one I know has a better fridge/freezer than me. This thing keeps things COLD like it was... well, like it was the 80's! I will never in my life move to one of these new pieces of crap.

Just wanted to interact with your channel while also saying many thanks from Florida! 😊

This is a very important tip, I do it at least once per year. If you have pets i would do it way more often. Great tip video.

needed a quick DIY, this is perfect, thanks for making!!!

Its Sunday morning at 430 AM and by chance I got up 45 minutes ago, and opened the fridge door. It was open 2 minutes "MAYBE" and it started beeping. I took a look inside and could see condensation on the side walls. I closed the door and waited about 5 minutes and opened the door again and same thing, This time I noticed the temp was flashing "H". Since I had just food shopped yesterday- the fridge was fairly full. So I could not go back to sleep . I googled the model on line and in 5 minutes- located top 5 reasons- its beeping and it mentioned the coils and that you should clean them at least once per year. I've lived her 7 and have never cleaned them. I found this video and popped off the kick panel- and was like- OMG. I cleaned out some of the gunk with my brush. But will follow all your instructions when I get up this AM and should be good to go!! Thank you so much. Im 66 and just had my hot water heater repaired 2 days ago- and cant afford another service call. And this clean up- I can handle on my own

Damn I'm 28 and I havent cleaned my fridge since I was born.

Going to tackle this job this weekend! Thanks for the video.

Thank you so much to this straight to the point video. Helped me learn to clean my coils.

Just did this just now and the weird noise went away. *subscribed*

Well done and straight forward!

Quick video & straight to the point, awesome! Liked & subscribed

Yep ! All good. Thanks !

I will give it a try tonight!!

Great concise video. Thank you!

Thanx. I didn't know you could pull off that front panel at the bottom. Cheers mate!!

Thank You So Much

I'm a senior citizen, so I had to wear a Black Sabbath tour shirt instead. BEST INTRO EVER!

thanks for a quick and easy video

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Jonny! Going to try doing this. I haven't cleaned out my fridge for years. I don't think the previous owner did either. Holy Cow, I don't want to see what's behind the fridge. Mine is an old school top freezer and bottom fridge. Fingers crossed! Hopefully it goes well. 😀

My man! When i saw RIDE THE LIGHTNING i knew whate we i could see could be trusted!

Thanks mate, that was really helpful, easier than I though 👍

Our freezer was getting up to like 15-20 degrees fahrenheit and someone suggested I clean the coils and yikes. It was a mess back there. Thanks for the guidance. 👍

Thank you, sir.

Thank you

Thank you! Awesome!

Thank you so much!

Thanks for the vid.

Thanks

Thanks bro!

Absolutely going to do this in a few minutes . I remember someone else doing this and this might do the trick . Fridge isn't cooling as much as should be . Milk and other things don't last as long . I always try the cheapest easiest remedy first in everything I do .

So informative

Thanks bro.

Thanks for the video… Nice shirt too btw…🤘🏼My freezer is frosting up and I think it’s running constantly… It’s probably something to do with the thermostat but I figured this would be worth a shot before I start throwing money at it…

Great video.... good information, no stupid sound track, Just the facts. How much electricity could we save if simple thing was done ofter?

These coils are easy to access from the back, mine are on the bottom, and can only be partially access from the back and front. It's a much harder job than is shown in this video. YMMV.

Thanks1

I have an older top-freezer refrigerator and recently ice has started forming in the refrigerator on food and on storage containers. So the first thing I did was declutter the refrigerator to make sure that airflow was circulating. But I still found ice the next day, so I used condensed air to spray out the dust that was in the back panel vent. I may need a brush to clean under the fridge. I hope cleaning it helps stop it from freezing everything.

Has to be done!

You may have just saved my fridge, and my bank account!

They sell a special brush to clean those coils completely. Get on at home depot, lowes, hardware atore, appliance store.

Havent cleaned mine in 16 years this should be fun

Wow! Thanks!

There's a front grid blocking the coils on my Kitchenaid. Will pull the fridge out & attack it again. Thanks for the help.

I used a very strong leaf blower and blew out the dust and used a damp towel on the other side to catch the dust. It works. Just make sure the leaf blower is strong.

Can you just use blower feature on Shop Vac instead of hooking up the vacuum feature -- to blow dust out of there, off the coils? Cheaper in long run than buying cans of Compressed Air.

I just cleaned that thing about a yr ago.. 😅😅😅🤣nice one mate

OMG I had no idea this was a thing and I've had my fridge for almost 20 years! 😳

I have a 20 year old fridge with the coils somewhat accessible from the panel, but best bet is from the bottom. Right now the freezer at the top is about 27°F but nothing is frozen. Just moved into a new apartment. Im gonna need someone to help me out because im gonna clean it while its slightly leaned over. Will update when my brother can come over and help.

Yo that’s the same fridge I have this is a godsend find.

Nice shirt!

Only a week and a half away from release and still no trophy list reveal.

you are super :)

My refrigerator started making this like humming noise and according to google I have to clean the compressor, fridge is about 5 years old and I've never cleaned it before 😐 so thanks for this video it seems alot easier than I was imagining.

Was your fridge getting noisy due to the dust build up? I think it's time for me to do this with mine. Thanks

My fridge hasn’t been as cold as it should and the freezer def not freezing decided to pop the back open and omg a whole lot of dust!!

my fridge does not have the bottom grill any idea where are flow would be?

I feel like my fridge was getting as cool these days and today we were going to buy a new one! But I started trying to see if it could b something else came across this video and so far I’ve only cleaned the front part and omg it was super bad !!!!!! So this can be a reason why the fridge stops cooling ?

Right when I saw the Metallica t-shirt, I figured you’d know your s**t👍. Great video!

"Once or Twice a year" LOL

do you unplug refrig. first?????

Just waiting for my repair patch on my vacuum to dry so I can use it . Never ever will buy steel can shop vac again , it rusted thru . Got a air compressor that I'll use too .

I know this was an old video. But ty sir!!! I can't afford to replace a new refridgerator for like $800. When we bought our house two years ago this August 31. It'll stay cool, but won't freeze me meat or ice. If i buy a bag of ice, it'll stay COOL/FROZEN, but will not make new homemade ice, if this makes sense??? thank you!!!

Is there generally any concern if you have a condensate drip tray under the coils. I.e. water getting blown on circuit board? I only see one board to the right for what looks like the ice maker input...

I trust a man in a ride the lighting shirt anyday

nice shirt

can you teach me about magnets please?

After I unplug my fridge, do I have to discharge any electricity like I would with a capacitor? I just want to be extra safe since there would be no one to find me if I got shocked super bad lol

Hi, did you turn the refrigerator off?

I'm able to get the front and back of the coils but how do you get the middle? Btw, cleaned my coils for thr first time in 16 years...couldn't find the front of the coils because it was behind a wall of dust! 😨

metallica!!!!!

Ummmm. I just cleaned the coils and grill on my refrigerator, and then decided to check out You Tube for ideas I might have used. I turned off the refrigerator using the dials rather than pulling the plug. Either method shuts off the fan which will circulate dust while you are cleaning. I think the methods demonstrated are fine. I have and use a refrigerator coil cleaner brush rather than a toothbrush and air compressor.. The refer coils brush does a pretty good and easy job of cleaning coils and I use a vacuum cleaner to suck up dust. When that is completed, I still pull out the refrigerator and vacuum up the loosened dust which simply fell to the floor. There is quite a lot of that, so this step is important. Doing this method twice/year should be adequate in most homes, but you can judge that based on the dust accumulated. Doing that before the hottest part of the year will give your refrigerator the easiest time of keeping things cold. This task took me about ten minutes to do, mainly since I knew where the refrigerator brush was to be found!

How to get water the pan out of this particular fridge

Dude! My fridge is poppin' and so noizy. I've had it for over 16 years and NEVER EVER knew that I was supposed to clean it. It was poppin SO LOUD the other night, I thought someone was breaking in mannnn. Figured that it might break down soon. Now I find your video.

I've not done this in 16 years

What about seniors or disabled who cant pull the refrigerator out?

I cleaned the coil with a hair dryer and eye make up brushes as I didn't have access to a vacuum cleaner. The fridge turned back on fine, made it's usual running noise but after five minutes it went whisper quiet. The light is on. After a while it resumed the running sound. Holy hell, I hope I didn't make it worse. The temperature has crossed 40 degrees Celsius here and fridge wasn't cooling as well, milk was getting spoiled. Hopefully it will be fixed now. There was dust and some fluff here and there on the coil. Im wondering if just cleaning that would make all that difference.

Is there a particular name for the tool you use at 1:35?

There's a handful of knowledge like this that repair men charge 90 x The Actual Repair Cost.

Where are the condenser coils on a chest freezer located? To vacuum clean.Thanks in advance .

I live in the forrest and don't have a fridge. I keep my food down by the crick and let the cool woder run over stuff that i will be eatin. Sux cause the mice and rats keep eatin my food. But at least I don have to clean coils.

Can’t find my coils anywhere not even below the fridge any ideas?

You're sooo cute! Thanks for sharing:)

Mine clicks and the sound is comming from the back middle super annoying

been living in an apartment for 8 years now and had no idea this needed tp be cleaned. it was likely never cleaned and it looks like a 20 year old fridge. what i found under there was truely disgusting. cant even get it all clean. when i lived with my mother we had the same fridge for atleast 16 years with atleast 1 dog and 4 cats consitantly the entire time. i can scarcly imagine the hell thay was under that thing lol

Thanks. Great advice. And thanks for the short video. Some videos are so long and boring. 😃