Fridge drain

JoCorley

Some months ago i was unblocking the drain in my Beko fridge freezer with wooden chopstick and it snapped off! I was told it should rot away eventually, in the meantime I've been tipping a few mls of boiling water down each week, as per a plumbers advice, but it's not going anywhere. I've tried poking a long drill bit down to try and catch it and hoik it out but no joy. Other than that the appliance works fine. Any ideas on how to get it out?

Aylesbury_Duck

Pull the unit out, find the point where the drain emanates onto the compressor (where it should sit in a tray and evaporate from the heat) and see if you can either remove it from there or, if it's too long and there's not enough clearance, use something to push it back up into the fridge (you'll need a helper to grab it from the inside of the fridge.)

lg13mza

Vacuum cleaner?

Norman_Castle

Can you put a long screw into it? Not sure what the plumber expected boiling water to do.

Tom99

Norman_Castle wrote: »

Can you put a long screw into it? Not sure what the plumber expected boiling water to do.

Sterilise the chopstick

troffasky

Send in a panda to eat the chopstick and when wintertime rolls around, the panda will simply freeze to death.


Anyway, on my fridge the drain hose is push-fit on to the tray in the back so it's fairly easy to disconnect if need be. I clean it with a long thin bottle brush [which came with some reusable drinking straws].

z1a

troffasky wrote: »

Send in a panda to eat the chopstick and when wintertime rolls around, the panda will simply freeze to death.


Anyway, on my fridge the drain hose is push-fit on to the tray in the back so it's fairly easy to disconnect if need be. I clean it with a long thin bottle brush [which came with some reusable drinking straws].

Thought pandas ate bamboo shoots, not wood.

JoCorley

Thanks will it be obvious where that is?