So we've been having excessive condensation in the fridge. It's the type with the freezer drawer on the bottom and french/double doors. Icing up on the inside back wall, and collecting below the deli tray. Ideas?
So we've been having excessive condensation in the fridge. It's the type with the freezer drawer on the bottom and french/double doors. Icing up on the inside back wall, and collecting below the deli tray. Ideas?
I had the same issue. There's a drain at the bottom of the freezer compartment. It should be visible when you remove the bottom drawer. There's a plastic hose which drains into into a pan mounted on the bottom of the refrigerator. The pan is equipped with an electric fan. When the freezer goes into defrost mode, the water drains through the hose, into the pan, and the electric fan turns on to evaporate the water.
Gunk builds up in the pan over time, and clogs the hose. Then you get an ice wall forming on the back of the freezer compartment. On my Frigidaire, I pulled the back panel off the refrigerator, and finessed the drain tray out for cleaning. Reinstalled, and squirted a little water into the drain opening in the freezer to make sure it was draining.
Hope this helps...
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Sometimes hot water in the pan fixes it. Otherwise snake it with some safety wire or a fish line.
It got so bad on the one in my new house that it would leak out. Don't let that happen...
Um, not sure this applies? The freezer is on the bottom, but not filling with water. The refrigerated part above is. The vents on the inside at the back appear to be iced. Is this the same idea? Do I need to take everything out of the fridge and try to access the inner rear panel?
same prob here with a samsung fridge. Remove back panel (inside fridge). There is a heating/defrost element that runs around the perimeter of the cooling stuff. At the bottom is a drain hole and gutters to the hole. In the samsungs there is a little metal tab connecting the heating element to the gutters - not enough heating to keep the drain clear so ice starts building up. I wrapped a 4" piece of copper wire around the heating element and fed it a little ways down the drain hole. No more issues so far - over a year and a half ago.
As others have said. Time to clean out the drain. I usually just empty the whole fridge and clean the whole thing while I am there.
oldtin wrote: I wrapped a 4" piece of copper wire around the heating element and fed it a little ways down the drain hole. No more issues so far - over a year and a half ago.
Same idea with an upright freezer we have. Wrapped the wire around the coil and fed it up the drain. No problems in 5 years. Just needed a little extra heat to keep the drain open.
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