Puddle in the fridge! Help.

georgiac

We have an integral fridge and seperate freezer.

The fridge has the usual shelves and a salad container at the bottom.

For some reason we end up with a small lake, well a large cupfull of water underneath the salad container every few days.

I'm not sure what is causing it and how concerned I should be by it?

Any advice please?

WestonDave

Somewhere at the back - maybe a bit above the bottom you'll probably find a channel and a hole - this is designed to take away the water that condenses on the cooling plate at the back. It runs down a pipe to a tray just above the condensor out the back where it evaporates. Chances are the pipe is either blocked or frozen. Firstly locate the hole, then try poking something flexible (drinking straw is a good bet for the first try) that won't damage the tube down it. You may end up having to turn the fridge off for a while to let it defrost. It may also be bits of food etc that have dropped down the hole. Ours was doing that a few weeks back albeit on a fridge freezer where the tube runs down the back of the freezer. Eventually after much poking and defrosting we managed to get a tube shaped lump of ice out and its been fine since.

I ended up using flexible garden wire with some tape over the end to stop it scratching a hole in the tube.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

I get this too now and again,I just do what WestonDave says and stick something down the drainage hole.
Turn the fridge off for half an hour and use a skewer or a toothpick and it should be fine.