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Why does my fridge leak onto the floor?

My fridge pees occasionally. I think it happens after a period when the fridge/freezer doors are open for longer than a few seconds. It leaves a puddle on the tile floor of my kitchen. Any idea why, or what I can do to fix it? It's a GE fridge, roughly 15 years old.

In a weird way, I'm sort of hoping it's a costly fix so the landlord will just replace it.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    self defrosting refrigerators have a drain tube in them that drains excess moisture out of them. This tube may have been damaged or rotted off and may need replacing. Next, this drain tube drains down under the fridge into a drain pan where a fan blows on the tray to help evaporate the collected water. The fan may have seized up and may not be working and may need replacing. So you have a few things that you can check.

    The drain tube and the fan underneath.

  • 1 decade ago

    The cold of the refrigerator condenses moisture out of the air which drains from the fridge to a pan under it. It should be sized so that the water evaporating from the pan lowers the water level as fast as the fridge makes the condensate in the first place.

    Sounds like one of two things. You live in a humid area and open the fridge frequently allowing moist air to enter (frequently) overwhelming the capacity of the pan....or, the pan has rusted out and the condensate water is just pouring out onto the floor.

    Getting a new pan for an old fridge may be problematic, but caulk might well fix the "no pressure" leakage.

    Source(s): Landlord for 42 years.
  • Joan H
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Check the tube the the water drains through when defrosting. Some older ones, drain down the back of the fridge, in a little channel, under the crisper drawers, through a little tube there and into the pan below. That little tube hole can get clogged with a tiny piece of food, and causes it to drip. If your is like that, check under the crisper pans and see if there is water laying there, if so, take a drinking straw and poke down in the hole. While you are at it, take the pan below, or sometimes they are located on the back, out and wash it and replace. We had a GE that had that problem. It was an easy fix, and I made it a part of my cleaning of the fridge.

    Source(s): I hope that is all that it is.
  • 1 decade ago

    Well it's not a costly fix!

    I'll bet you have a frost free freezer. If so its got a heaters in the walls of your freezer that melts the frost that forms on the sides and bottom of your freezer. The water drains down to the bottom of you fridge.

    Under your fridge there is a evaporator pan that catches the water.

    Then the water is lift to evaporate.

    I think the pan has got a hole it. Or it has move on you

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  • 1 decade ago

    This happened to my ten year old GE Profile fridge. Cleaning out the freezer of ice on the walls seemed to help, but I never found out a solution and recently got a new fridge. By the way, it wasn't connected to a water line (for ice maker), so it wasn't that.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You got some good answerer's. Regardless, its the landlords responsibility to repair or replace it. Report the problem to them.

  • 1 decade ago

    That sounds delicious.

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