I’d also add, you get $35 from Commonwealth Edison as an efficiency bonus if you let them haul away your old fridge.
The program is available on the ComEd website or via some google-fu.
good luck.
I hope I don’t have to wait until the 17th, at a minimum, to have a new working fridge (if we need a new one!) But that’s the earliest pickup available in my zip code, and for $35 I’m not using vacation time to wait around for them anyway. I’d just as soon let the delivery guys haul away the old one. But for someone with a more flexible schedule it could be a good idea. Link.
Like I said - if it’s leaking water continuously, if the cooling works but not well, it’s simply that the drainhole is plugged and the cooling coils and fins are plugged with ice so they don’t cool the air that well. Compressor is fine. Odds are the timer is also fine.
If the compressor had died, there’s be no cooling, no water.
If the timer had died, the coils would never defrost, no water, eventually ineffective cooling; big gush of water when you unplug and let it sit.
Best thing to speed the process and make it cheap, unplug the fridge and open the doors so it can defrost before the guy gets there.
Good luck.
My personal refrigerator response is to fix the sick one, but also get a new one and move the repaired one to the basement for beer use.
If we had a basement we might consider that sort of thing 
Actually, not really - I don’t have the urge at the moment to lay out north of $1k for appliances.
Anyway, fridge update: the repair guy’s theory is that the compressor overheated and shut itself off, in part because it was dusty back there (and you would not believe the number of bottle caps our girl kitty had kicked under there! they are her favorite toy).
It seems OK for now, although the compressor was still running warm - the repair guy’s advice was
a) not to do a major grocery shop for 24 - 48 hours just to be sure;
b) there’s no way to know whether there is also damage to the compressor;
c) they don’t make them like they used to, and 11+ years is getting on the natural life span of a modern fridge; and
d) parts and labor to replace the compressor would be something like $600, at which point it probably makes more sense just to replace it.
I asked him what the most reliable brands are, and he said Subzero - of course, those run around $8k (yeah, nope!). So we hopefully have been given a reprieve, and we need to be better about moving it to vacuum, but we may be living on borrowed time.
I love it when I’m right.
So. . . is it still running?
Also just thought I’d throw in my 2¢:
Mine died and since it wasn’t all that old–but still out of warranty–I called a service tech. This particular company is pretty reputable, and has a flat $89 service call, and if they replace any parts, that service call charge is applied to the labor cost. Of course I would have to pay for the parts.
Anyway, dead compressor–and he told me that that’s an $800 job.
Just got my new fridge today.
Nope, she’s dead, Jim. Died for good a few weeks after the initial resurrection. We lost all our perishables again and had to buy a new fridge, whatever they had in stock. (Got a floor model for $1100 off list because it had a couple of door dings, but buy, that was still pretty damn expensive.) Ah, the joys of homeownership!