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Do you have a Hotpoint, or Whirlpool white No Frost Fridge? The standard 15.6 - 18.7 cu ft, ones you purchase at Home Depot? All of a sudden it has been puddling water on the inside, and the freezer is getting iced? I've run into this time after time for yrs when managing rental property. An appliance repair man, fed up of the constant trips, showed me what to do.

Cause: A simple description: Inside your freezer, behind the plastic back panel, are coils, and a fan that keep the freezer cold. Constantly, there are droplets of water that form, and slowly drop to the bottom of a small gully or tray. The water then goes thought a small hole or drain at the bottom of the tray, that then leads to the back of the fridge, where the heat from coils in back of the fridge then evaporates the water. Many a time the freezer door is open too often, left open too long, or not completely shut. Causing ice to form in the back of the plastic walls. The freezer can't catch up removing the water. This causes the ice to form, and also causes the small hole to clog with ice. No hole = nowhere for the water to go. So the ice buildup can spread all over the coils, and under the bottom part of the freezer floor as well. This in turn screws up the thermostat, can even touch the fan, to prevent it's rotation... and we have a mess.

So here is what you do. Can take only 30 minutes. TURN OFF FRIDGE FIRST!
1.Empty the freezer.
2. In the fridge section, there should be a hole on the ceiling. Place a large bowl, to catch any water
3 Carefully remove the floor cover of the freezer, and the back panel. Be careful not to break the styrofoam floor inserts attached to the freezer panel
4. You will see the coils, and maybe, if not too icy, the small hole on the back floor of the freezer (below the coils).
5. With a small watering can, or glass, pour warm water over the coils. You will have to sponge up the puddles.
6. Continue this for a few minutes.
7. You then, after some of the ice melts, see the small hole. It is most certainly clogged with ice.
8. Pouring water alone will take forever, so
9 Get a blow dryer. And blow dry the coils and the bottom near the hole. (DO NOT LEAVE BLOW DRYER ON IN FREEZER UNATTENDED) IT CAN MELT THE PLASTIC WALLS). After awhile the ice. will melt totally, and the ice in the hole shrink.
10 Pour more water, until the water freely passes through the hole
11. Wipe up all the water.
12 Dry the coils and hole throughly with the blow dryer to be sure it is most dry
13. Put back panels
14. Refill the freezer
15 Turn it on
16 I just did this last night in 30 min. The freezer is now more quiet, and even colder!
17. The appliance repair man can charge over $150+ to repair