Can anyone tell me why water keeps accumulating at the bottom of my refrigertor?
Everything is working fine, the freezer is fine, but I have to towel it out every other day.
Thank you in advance.
Clogged drain. That moisture should be drained out by the fridge for evaporation.
Depending on the model of refridge, the drain port can be located in several places. The most likely location is under the decorative floor of the freezer unit. However, it can also be under the coils behind the false back and/or side walls.
Isn’t that frustrating?! Ours was on every shelf, landlady said it was ‘just condensation’ but in fact it was because the drain line from the freezer had gotten blocked w/ ice inside. It’s supposed to drain into a shallow pan under the fridge where it evaporates.
We emptied the fridge, took it outside where it could drain w/o causing damage and poured hot water into the bottom of the freezer off and on for a few hours until the water ran straight through. It helped to remove the shelf-like part at the bottom of the freezer, went much faster after that.
We did that once and never had to repeat it in the following 3 years we lived in that house.
It’s a self-defrosting or frost free. Coming out the back is a thin clear plastic tube (i bet) meant to feed an 'evaporation pan" on the bottom.
There’s a timer unit, and every so often it switches to “defrost”, heats the cooling coils to melt accumulated frost. This watter is supposed to run down into that drain tube.
Odds are lint or onion skin or some debris has clogged the tube, so the water runs down the inside of the fridge. Pull the tube off the back, clear out the connection into the fridge with a pipe cleaner or something, and see if that does the trick. Worst case, you ahve to disasseble the fridge to get at the cooling coils, and clean it out from that side. In my case, on 2 fridges, it involved unscrewing the floor of the freezer comaprtment above the fridge part, and removing some foam covers. then you’ll see where the cooling coil unit drains into that pipe.
Well, it is “just condensation”, but yeah, in a “frost free” fridge, it is supposed to drain out. My fridge actually has a visible drain hole low down on its back wall, with some angled gutter grooves leading down to it. Sometimes these gutters get shards of ice in them when the water refreezes. I just pull them out with a finger.
I mean that when I told her everything on the fridge shelves was sitting in water she passed it off as the shelf having a thin layer of condensation on it and I was overreacting - hence she refused to have it fixed. For weeks we kept dish towels on the shelves so the stuff in the fridge didn’t get soggy.