While I was preparing my morning Carnation Instant Breakfast, I noticed a strange noise… a drippy noise. At first I thought it might be rain or something. Max noticed it, too, and tracked it to the back of the refrigerator. Now that I was listening, I heard something inside the freezer, too. I opened it and saw water dripping in the bottom and in back.
Since it was time to go to school, I just turned off the water supply to the ice maker and left. So now it sits. I’m afraid to turn the water on again because I don’t know what’s wrong, but now I don’t have any cold water in my kitchen sink. I’ll look at it this weekend and see if I can find any place where a water line is clogged with ice or something. I hope it’s not a big deal.
At least I caught it before the kitchen floor got waterlogged and the refrigerator fell through to the basement.
Your freezer is so clean. Wow.
So, do you have a big puddle of ice on the bottom of the freezer? You could torment some mice by making them figure skate.
I thought the same thing!
Well, about the freezer being clean anyway. I don’t often think anything of mice.
My freezer is clean because the only thing I use it for is ice.
And stinky trash. It doesn’t stink if you freeze it until Trash Day.
And storing a fruitcake I got for my 33.3 birthday
And euthanizing aquarium fish.
And are those pecans in the door?
They are pecans. Every year I buy a bunch from someone at my handbell church, eat some, then put the rest in the freezer. I don’t know how long those have been there, so I’m afraid to eat them. I should just throw them to the rats in the back yard.
Ours has done this twice, I believe, and it was a refrigerator motor issue. In our case, the motor wasn’t working properly, so it wasn’t cooling enough to keep the ice frozen. A few hundred dollars. And it is a relatively new fridge. I say that, because my parents had theirs for 30 years. They just don’t make them like they used to…
Gotta agree with ya’ there. In the ’80′s in Chicago, one of the apartments unstairs had an old white round-topped GE refriegrator with a single digit ID number on the back. Ran like a Swiss watch, even after being dropped on its way from the upstairs apartment to our basement. We currently have a refrig/freezer from the ’70′s – after replacing the freezer motor one year and the refrigerator motor the other, it’s still ticking. (No light in there for over a decade already, but I’m used to groping aorund for victuals now…) As much as I might like a new one, I’m afraid of exactly what you’re describing. If it ain’t broken…
Dang Brad, this is twice in one week you’ve avoided a catastrophic demise. One by fire & one by water…could air be next? I hope you have a carbon monoxide detector thingy.