Your floors, your food, and your wallet will thank you. Have you ever had a "fridge flood" disaster? Drop your horror story in the comments below!
Take a 12-inch piece of thin copper wire (like 12-gauge electrical wire stripped bare). Stick one end of the wire into the drain hole as far as it will go. Wrap the other end around the defrost heater element (the metal rod behind the freezer panel). refrigerator defrost drain
Refrigerators are dark, damp, and occasionally warm during defrost cycles. This is a paradise for mold, mildew, and bacteria. They form a thick, gelatinous slime inside the drain tube. This slime acts like a clogged artery, slowing water until it eventually stops. Your floors, your food, and your wallet will thank you
This is the sneakiest problem. If the drain tube is too close to the freezer cooling lines, the water freezes before it leaves the tube. You get a "Popsicle plug" that stops everything. You’ll have a dry drain pan and a flooded freezer. Take a 12-inch piece of thin copper wire
In this post, we are going to dive deep into what this drain does, why it gets clogged, exactly how to fix it, and how to prevent a swimming pool from forming under your produce ever again. To understand the drain, you first have to understand how your fridge fights ice.
It is a small hole (usually about a half-inch wide) located at the bottom center of the freezer compartment or at the back of the fridge section. This hole leads to a tube that snakes down the back of the appliance and empties into a drip pan near the compressor.
If you’ve ever pulled your fridge out to find a mysterious puddle of water under the crisper drawers, or you’ve noticed a thin layer of ice building up on the back wall of your freezer, you’ve met the culprit.
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