Mid-dau informed me a few days ago my overpriced refrigerator was acting stooopid!
Being smart, as I am🤨(and due a previous incident with a certain red Washing machine) I always purchase an extra warranty on appliances.
I called and set a service call. I told the computer voice it was acting stooopid. Hey it worked. Guy called back and said they would be out today.
Yesterday there was water standing in the bottom. First elemental.
This morning when you opened the door you felt air blowing. Second elemental.
Me and the girls cleaned it out. (If you can lean, you can clean, hear that Lil’wrekker?)
I smelled smoke. Oops. Fire. Third elemental. (Mid-dau thinks that might be old smoked chicken she found in the back🤔)
Now I’m waiting on the spirit demon, fourth elemental?
While drinking a kinda cool protein drink and also waiting on the service person.
Yeah. I just misremembered or something. When you said you’d be here bright and early Friday.
What? You live in a different time zone?
Elemental, my ass.
A piece of junk. Do they have elves in sweat shops building these things in god-knows-where?
Many of them get frozen over/up behind the ‘panel’ that is the back wall. Then, the place where the defrost water is supposed to drain (to a pan underneath the fridge) … well … that gets frozen over/up, too, and … a rather bucolic pond develops at the bottom of the fridge.
Quality control is lacking in many of these foreign imports. A while back I decided to buy one of those cylinder water tanks with the rainbow lighting and mild circulation that gave a very lifelike look to the plastic tropical fish within. They shipped it without a bottom! Apparently, they didn’t notice that fish tanks need a bottom. So, I feel your pain.
Mine’s a different brand. Here’s an LG web page to help troubleshoot:
In some of these units – mine included – there’s a ‘nipple’ at the verrrrry end (bottom) of the defrost drain tube, right as the tube sits over the aforementioned pan.
The nipple is designed to prevent ambient humidity from getting into your fridge (via the drain tube).
That nipple can get stuck closed. If it does, then the water backs up and … freezes.
The defrost cycle can actually be working properly in this scenario, but the defrost water can’t drain.
ETA: IF this is your problem, then unplugging your fridge to manually defrost it is essential, but it won’t solve the problem. If your unit has a nipple that has failed, then that nipple needs to be replaced in addition to unplugging the fridge and letting it thoroughly defrost.
Gaak. Within the past couple years we bought three LG appliances because they were highly rated by CR. Fridge, washer, dryer. Replacements for garbage GE. So far, so good. In the good old days a fridge would go for 25 years with no service.
This is the second of these fridges. They replaced the first one after a month and 3 service calls.
This has been 5 years. Hard use. So maybe it’ll be ok.
Still sitting on my egg waiting on the people to get here.
Harshing my nap time.
I have an LG made in 2008 that was purchased used in 2013. It lasted 5 years. First it had water in the bottom of the freezer but then the compressor went out which solved that problem. It’s now a cabinet.
The filters were all blocked. Things were frozen.
He changed the filters and some little part thingy
He said it was from well water.
Well.
Now I suppose the water filtration stuff on the well pump are next. And the stand alone ice maker. The washing machine. The dishwashers. And the shower heads. What else?
I’m not a fan of LG mainly because an expensive front-load washer’s main bearing failed after the warranty expired. Someone at LG told me that the machine’s relative newness qualified it for repair at a low flat rate, which after some investigation I found to be a very good deal for a major problem like that. When I called them back, a different CSR told me no, the machine was too old to qualify, even if it was just a month or so too old, sorry, sucks to be you. So I junked it and bought a top-loading high-efficiency Maytag that I’m very happy with. The LG dryer still works, though.
I also have an LG refrigerator (not my choice, came with the house). Seems to work OK though I briefly had a problem similar to yours. Water was dripping into the fridge section from the freezer. I figured it was water accumulation during the defrost cycle due to a frozen drain hole. I put a plastic tray in the fridge to collect the drips and rearranged the items in the freezer, and eventually the frozen drain thawed out and it’s been fine for years now.
No, I didn’t. I bought a smallish red refrigerator. Bigger than a dormitory size. It has a freezer and 2 doors and is tall and narrow. By a company called Galanz. I got it in the scratch and dent at Home Depot at a deep discount. It has a scratch on the left side along the bottom about a foot up.
I put it in my bathroom.
Don’t ask why.
But it’s been real handy.
I’ve read many bad reviews on it since then. But this one seems ok. For now.
wonder who I can coerce into that?