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We have the worse leak in the history of fridges, I swear to god.
This thing has been puddling water for a few months, and we're not sure what is causing it. The water puddles underneat the crispers, and roomie is gonna clean it out and make it look good.
What would cause this? We have an ice maker on this fridge, but the water is leakingfrom the middle of the fridge down to the crisper area.
It is a frost free refrigerator, isn't it.
That kind of fridge periodically goes through a defrost cycle. The blower goes off, the compressor goes off, and a heater comes on in the freezer. This melts the frost off the evaporator coil and the resulting water runs down a drain that is located in the back of the freezer under the freezer covers.
Down the drain....
Except that if the freezer hasn't been kept scrupulously clean, stuff can get under the covers and block that drain. In this case, the water backs up and freezes. Then it builds up. Eventually, the ice in the freezer under the cover has reached the point where, when the defrost cycle comes on, the water runs out into the refrigerator portion.
Mid sized Kelvinators and White-Westinghouse refrigerators are particularly susceptible to this problem, although I have seen it in other brands.
To solve the problem you have to take the covers off inside the freezer. Chip out the ice, and clean out the drain.
About the Author: Jim Locker is a technical guy who has done a lot of real estate investing and landlording. The experiences he writes about and advice he gives are either first hand, or in answer to specific questions posed by others. He is commonly known as jiml8 around the internet.
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