Thank you James! I have been saved by your video! Without you video I was reluctant to take off the panel with the fan attached and saw that you had removed it. I was not certain where the drain was and honestly could not see it until I watched your video. I am retired single mom with no extra income to pay others to solve my problems so I rely on the wisdom of people like you who show me what to do to repair things that have to be dealt with ASAP. I appreciate that you shared this video and join the list of the grateful!
Wow. You just saved me big time. I couldn't believe the amount of ice that had built up. I thought my model was different and didn't have the drain hole because it was so obscured. I stuck with a heat gun rather than using the boiling water until I could pry the sheet (block) of ice up with a table knife. I then used a long zip tie to clear the blockage. Working wonderfully now :-)
Thank you James that was a great help My husband had found that the hole was blocked with hair and algae. He went to the back of the outside of the fridge and undone 2 screws which allowed the evaporation tray to be partially slid out. This gave access to the bottom of the hole where he could pull the muck out clearing it.
thanks also James but as Katrina mentioned its a lot easier to fix this problem from the back, you would need to turn off the fridge and let it defrost first. If you have the time it would be good to update this video and let people know to go to the back of the fridge first as getting to the hole from inside the freezer was a lot more time consuming and you risk damaging certain components. Cheers Steve
Thanks for this video. I just sorted mine. My model had a wire down the hole which you are meant to jiggle to break up ice. I found after defrosting with hair dryer and boiling water as you did, I still needed to remove this “jiggler” and then the water cleared and I’m back in business. Thanks again for posting - real life saver.
Thankyou James, just done your fix. Couldn't get the drawer out so went round back, undid a couple of screws and found drain semi blocked. Cleaned it with a pipe cleaner and melted ice gushed out. Thankyou for sharing, you have saved us a couple of hundred $$
Thank you for the great video. This is the second time this has happened to me. Another option without removing all the side and back panels is to remove the small panel in the freezer section. There are 2 screws. You will be able to see the rubber hose going down. Use a hair dryer to melt the ice. Go to the back of the fridge and undo the tray where the heating elements are. Put a towel on the compressor and put a wire into the hose to unplug it. Water will come out .Thank you for the great video. This is the second time this has happened to me. Another option without removing all the side and back panels is to remove the small panel in the freezer section. There are 2 screws. You will be able to see the rubber hose going down. Use a hair dryer to melt the ice. Go to the back of the fridge and undo the tray where the heating elements are. Put a towel on the compressor and put a wire into the hose to unplug it. Water will come out .
Thanks James. I've just done my fridge for the second time, and passed this video to my young son, who can do it next time! Seems like a job every 15 months or so!! My fridge is not under warranty, so no heat coupler device for me!!
Thanks for putting this together mate. It saved me from having to get out the repair guy. I managed to get past the drawers without removing them - awkward though but doable. I used a hair dryer to melt the ice enough to remove it then a cable tie to clean out the drain hole. Cheers.
Thanks James, this was perfect! My fridge is a F&P RF610ADUX3. To further help and simplify it for others... the drain hole on mine was exactly where you showed it to be and mine was covered in a layer of ice. There was no need to pull the fridge out to access the back. I emptied the freezer drawer and took out the trays but didn't take the drawer off and had plenty of access. I took the small cover off the bottom at the back of the freezer held on by 2 screws but didn't need to take off the back panel. I used a measuring cup to pour boiling water against and along the bottom of the back panel which then slid into the tray thereby melting the ice quickly. I poured 2 cups to start with and as more melted I sucked it out with a baster. I poured 2 more sets of 2 boiling cups and left it to melt the water in the pipe and finally sucked the remainder of the water in the tray. Screwed tray back on, returned drawers and food, done in 20 mins.
Thanks for the tips James! .. got it .. removing the plastic covers was the hardest part. Refrigeration technicians were not prepared to touch Fisher & Paykel so had to do it ourselves. Defrosted the ice which was covering the drainage hole with hot water, running it through then jiggling the little metal jiggler. Used a flexible tube to make sure it was all clear, found some funky gunk. Put it all back together. Good use of the wet/dry vac. Saved buying a new fridge hopefully.
@@aloknagpal4606 hello that was a while ago and it was while visiting my son, it was his fridge. I remember it was a struggle but he persevered. I’ll ask him when I get a chance.
Thank you for posting this video. I watched a few that were different than my fridge and then this one was exactly what I needed. All fixed up. Much appreciated.
Thank you so much for your upload, i fixed my freezer.... it was blocked in the drain hole... A service technician came out ( under warranty ) and installed a heat coupler ( fancy name for a bit of metal wire) that clips on to the defrost radiator and is inserted IN the drain hole... so when the fridge defrosts the heat is coupled to that wire and will melt any frost building up in the drain hole. if your fridge is under warranty DEMAND FOR THIS MOD TO BE DONE UNDER WARRANTY!!!
Thanks lakisbouz. I noticed my fridge also had the same wire running down through the drain hole. Is the wire meant to connect to the coils in the drip tray? Was wondering whether this had possibly rusted so was no longer attached to the coils in the drip tray and thus causing the drain hole to ice up.
Yes, many thanks here as well, Our F&P 2 door with freezer draw under had been peeing itself fir the last few months. We would often come home to a wee little puddle at the front right bottom. Initially my wife found a lot of ice build up behind the draws and on the floor of the ice compartment, she would often clear thus ice with a egg flip. Thus would normally see it work well fir about 3 weeks. I’ve worked out that maybe having the ducted aircon on has made the problem worse, and having cats!!!! Yes cats, when I pulled the fridge out to have a look at what was going on there was cat hair around the motor and at the very rear of the unit, basically where the wand on the vac can’t reach. Anyway, I cut some of the fingers from the bottom of the rubber pipe just above the motor, removed the drain tray totally and gave it a good clean, and removed the freezer draws along with the front draw panel, the panel just lifts up and out from the slides on either side. Once I had removed the small cover I could see there was a substantial buildup of ice inside under the condenser unit. Using a large syringe and boiling water I pushed the hit water along the full width of the condenser bottom. It only took 5 full syringe fulls to clear the ice (the fridge had been off fir about 1 1/2 hours by thus stage. Finally the drain hole was cleared and I could pull the remaking ice buildup out with a flat blade screw driver being careful not to puncture any of the silver tape that’s surrounding the drain tray area. On a side note, I found what appeared to be a flake of onion skin in the rear drain tray after all this, so maybe that was stuck in the drain pipe and started the problem, plus I have removed the small stainless wire that hangs down into the hole from under the condenser. Hopefully this has rectified the situation, and I’ll now keep an eye every six months or so on the rest of the unit, just to make sure the cat hair stays away. Cheers
As others have mentioned, the exit of the drain pipe may have a bunch of little rubber "fingers" that can trap dirt at the end of the pipe (just above the drip tray - which is accessed from the back of the fridge). I'm guessing that these "fingers" are the result of the forming process of the drain pipe itself and should not be there. In our case the pipe had been blocked at the exit by what looked like a semi-solid clump of animal fur, that had built up over 10 years or so.
Awesome! thanks you James. I got that far but could not see the tray as the whole area had ice layer across it! All looked like it was a panel. Great work!
Hi everyone. I don't go into my account as I don't usually post videos. I just thought it might be helpful so was bowled over by the number of comments and likes that have accumulated over the last 5 years. Thanks so much for the love. Thank you to those who suggested going through the back of the fridge. I went in second time around based on your comments but it is sealed so went back through the front again to fix the problem. If you're still reading you might find this story interesting. I got this fridge second hand off Gumtree in 2015. It's previous owner was in the band The Sunny Boys. If you're my vintage you might know who they are.
I had the same problem. The steps are to remove the white plate inside the freezer section and use a hair dryer to melt the remaining ice. Go to the back of the unit and remove the white tray above the condenser. Take care unclipping the tubes. Assuming all the ice has melted, poke a wire up the drainage tube and look inside for the top to come out of the tube It's surprising how much 'flob' there is on the end of the tube. Reassemble. Switch on and hope for the best 🙂
I had the same problem but found the drain hole was blocked. Much easier to access this from the rear of the fridge. Have to undo the evaporation tray and carefully unclip the evaporator pipes. You can then access the drain hole and clean it with a cotton bud. This will allow the condensation to drain out and evaporate on the tray as it's designed to do.
Brilliant. Thank you for posting. I had exactly the same issue. It took some time to get the screws on the back plate off as I didn't have a 'square' allen key. I ended up using a chisel to make slits to get a flat head screw driver in. The drain hole had a clump of plastic which came from the manufacturing process so had blocked and caused the same issue with ice blocking it.
Thank you so much for this. I had the same problem. I also cleaned the drip tube with a piece of wire. I also cleaned the white reservoir in the lower back of the fridge. I cleaned the drip tube from that side also. This video saved me about $200. Thanks again.
NOTE: The drip tray is filling up because the drain hole is blocked. It could just be ice, or it could be some kind of crud that's found its way back there. I assumed it was blocked with ice because I couldn't imagine any kind of crud getting back there in the freezer. So... I ended up cleaning out the ice 3 times over a few weeks. With the final (hopefully) ice removal, I pushed a very small bottle brush into the drain hole. That forced a big nasty glob of lint-like gunk to drop out into the evaporation tray on the backside of the fridge. I was kind of shocked. Where could that have come from? Anyway. If you are having this problem follow James' directions, AND try using some wire or small flexible tool to push out whatever is blocking the drain tube.
Thanks from me too. This worked perfectly. Ended up also using a small kitchen butane torch as well, and some of the kids pipe cleaners to finally clear the pipe.
I can't get to the screws on mine. It has an annoying flap at the bottom of the panel that is wedged oh so tightly into the left and right sides. Grrr. BTW, if you don't want it to happen again, gently coil a piece of stiff wire and insert into the drain hole a small way so that water can still get down hole. Other end of wire, wrap around the defrost heater element. Won't ice up again. It's an industry fix for design problem
Thank you so much! This helped so much. However mine freezes over again after a couple of days. Do you know what the cause of this could be? It very frustrating to have to do this multiple times a week haha I have checked that water flows down the hole and that it is not blocked but still continues to freeze over.
Our bottom freezer fridge a little different to that shown almost impossible to get back of freezer compartment so used hair dryer to blast back up the vent at the back - also disconnected evaporation draw - and cleaned Bottom of tube - about a litre of water came into the Evap tray after about 30 mins of intermittent hair dryer usage. In the process of fault analysis Fischer Paykal useless only suggesting $200 callout- from their site were directed to engage an expert by paying $5 nothing ever heard and then a week later $40 extracted from our account by these people - We will never buy another Fischer Paykell Appliance
Did this stop the water from spilling out? I've melted the ice but checked it later and the ice had formed back. Should i try draining the water from the tray or could it be the line isn't completely free
I'm currently defrosting with hairdryer also and was wondering if my tray under the fridge would be overflowing with all the defrosted ice now, since the fridge has been off for a while so the compression heater won't be evaporating it...
James is the fan cover at out side one. Are you just pulling out or taping on some my fridge has same issue , but the cover won’t came out, you got idea? Thanks 😊
Hi Bass, no worries. Hopefully you got it sorted. The water should drain away and not hang around to freeze up, maybe the line is not completely cleared?
Thanks James - could not work out how to get the door off freezer. But managed to defrost tray and clear drain hole. Does anyone know how to get the freezer door off? Cheers Rob
Hi Chris, I benefitted from James' vid as well. But I didn't take the back panel out or the drawer off. I had plenty of room to access the drain hole and pour boiling water in there. I just hope I left the water in the tray and hole long enough to make sure the drainage pipe was properly cleared. Good luck.
2 screws at the bottom to remove the cover then gently pull the back panel away, be careful as it has wires attached. As always, be safe and unplug the power first.
Thanks, James. Can you send me the link on how to take the drawer out? I have a FP RF201ADUSX5 and the door handle on the freezer has come loose. Any idea on how I can access the screw to tighten it? Thanks in advance.
This is perfect. Thanks, Darren. Do you happen to have a link for taking off the insulation panel on that same bottom drawer? I need to access it to tighten the handle screw that has come loose.
Mine was showing up mostly on the left side, but at both of the front feet, seemingly from underneath. This is caused by the water having nowhere to go so building up in the bottom of the freezer as a thin sheet of ice that melts and then freezes.
Thank you James! I have been saved by your video! Without you video I was reluctant to take off the panel with the fan attached and saw that you had removed it. I was not certain where the drain was and honestly could not see it until I watched your video. I am retired single mom with no extra income to pay others to solve my problems so I rely on the wisdom of people like you who show me what to do to repair things that have to be dealt with ASAP. I appreciate that you shared this video and join the list of the grateful!
Wow. You just saved me big time. I couldn't believe the amount of ice that had built up. I thought my model was different and didn't have the drain hole because it was so obscured. I stuck with a heat gun rather than using the boiling water until I could pry the sheet (block) of ice up with a table knife. I then used a long zip tie to clear the blockage. Working wonderfully now :-)
Thank you James that was a great help
My husband had found that the hole was blocked with hair and algae. He went to the back of the outside of the fridge and undone 2 screws which allowed the evaporation tray to be partially slid out. This gave access to the bottom of the hole where he could pull the muck out clearing it.
thanks also James but as Katrina mentioned its a lot easier to fix this problem from the back, you would need to turn off the fridge and let it defrost first. If you have the time it would be good to update this video and let people know to go to the back of the fridge first as getting to the hole from inside the freezer was a lot more time consuming and you risk damaging certain components. Cheers Steve
Thanks for this video. I just sorted mine. My model had a wire down the hole which you are meant to jiggle to break up ice. I found after defrosting with hair dryer and boiling water as you did, I still needed to remove this “jiggler” and then the water cleared and I’m back in business. Thanks again for posting - real life saver.
Isn't the wire supposed to be the heating element?
Thankyou James, just done your fix. Couldn't get the drawer out so went round back, undid a couple of screws and found drain semi blocked. Cleaned it with a pipe cleaner and melted ice gushed out.
Thankyou for sharing, you have saved us a couple of hundred $$
Thank you for the great video. This is the second time this has happened to me. Another option without removing all the side and back panels is to remove the small panel in the freezer section. There are 2 screws. You will be able to see the rubber hose going down. Use a hair dryer to melt the ice. Go to the back of the fridge and undo the tray where the heating elements are. Put a towel on the compressor and put a wire into the hose to unplug it. Water will come out .Thank you for the great video. This is the second time this has happened to me. Another option without removing all the side and back panels is to remove the small panel in the freezer section. There are 2 screws. You will be able to see the rubber hose going down. Use a hair dryer to melt the ice. Go to the back of the fridge and undo the tray where the heating elements are. Put a towel on the compressor and put a wire into the hose to unplug it. Water will come out .
Thanks James. I've just done my fridge for the second time, and passed this video to my young son, who can do it next time! Seems like a job every 15 months or so!! My fridge is not under warranty, so no heat coupler device for me!!
Thanks for putting this together mate. It saved me from having to get out the repair guy. I managed to get past the drawers without removing them - awkward though but doable. I used a hair dryer to melt the ice enough to remove it then a cable tie to clean out the drain hole. Cheers.
Thanks James, this was perfect! My fridge is a F&P RF610ADUX3. To further help and simplify it for others... the drain hole on mine was exactly where you showed it to be and mine was covered in a layer of ice. There was no need to pull the fridge out to access the back. I emptied the freezer drawer and took out the trays but didn't take the drawer off and had plenty of access. I took the small cover off the bottom at the back of the freezer held on by 2 screws but didn't need to take off the back panel. I used a measuring cup to pour boiling water against and along the bottom of the back panel which then slid into the tray thereby melting the ice quickly. I poured 2 cups to start with and as more melted I sucked it out with a baster. I poured 2 more sets of 2 boiling cups and left it to melt the water in the pipe and finally sucked the remainder of the water in the tray. Screwed tray back on, returned drawers and food, done in 20 mins.
Thanks for the tips James! .. got it .. removing the plastic covers was the hardest part. Refrigeration technicians were not prepared to touch Fisher & Paykel so had to do it ourselves. Defrosted the ice which was covering the drainage hole with hot water, running it through then jiggling the little metal jiggler.
Used a flexible tube to make sure it was all clear, found some funky gunk. Put it all back together. Good use of the wet/dry vac. Saved buying a new fridge hopefully.
how do you get the drawer off?
@@aloknagpal4606 hello that was a while ago and it was while visiting my son, it was his fridge.
I remember it was a struggle but he persevered. I’ll ask him when I get a chance.
And the appearance of your most gorgeous little munchkin coming to your aid at the end of the video is just super cute ❤❤
Thank you for posting this video. I watched a few that were different than my fridge and then this one was exactly what I needed. All fixed up. Much appreciated.
Thanks James - this has helped us twice solve this issue !! Same video , same resolution!!!
So funny. It's happened to us again and he had to consult his video to work out how he did it originally.
You’re a legend mate! I’m having this problem.
Only thing is I don’t know how to take the drawer out.
Cannot find a video for this.
Hi James, did this on my fridge and it worked a charm! Thank you so much! Saved on the call out fee 👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you so much for your upload, i fixed my freezer....
it was blocked in the drain hole...
A service technician came out ( under warranty ) and installed a heat coupler ( fancy name for a bit of metal wire) that clips on to the defrost radiator and is inserted IN the drain hole... so when the fridge defrosts the heat is coupled to that wire and will melt any frost building up in the drain hole.
if your fridge is under warranty DEMAND FOR THIS MOD TO BE DONE UNDER WARRANTY!!!
Thanks lakisbouz. I noticed my fridge also had the same wire running down through the drain hole. Is the wire meant to connect to the coils in the drip tray? Was wondering whether this had possibly rusted so was no longer attached to the coils in the drip tray and thus causing the drain hole to ice up.
Thanks, you’re much more helpful than their customer service line.
Yes, many thanks here as well,
Our F&P 2 door with freezer draw under had been peeing itself fir the last few months.
We would often come home to a wee little puddle at the front right bottom.
Initially my wife found a lot of ice build up behind the draws and on the floor of the ice compartment, she would often clear thus ice with a egg flip.
Thus would normally see it work well fir about 3 weeks.
I’ve worked out that maybe having the ducted aircon on has made the problem worse, and having cats!!!!
Yes cats, when I pulled the fridge out to have a look at what was going on there was cat hair around the motor and at the very rear of the unit, basically where the wand on the vac can’t reach.
Anyway, I cut some of the fingers from the bottom of the rubber pipe just above the motor, removed the drain tray totally and gave it a good clean, and removed the freezer draws along with the front draw panel, the panel just lifts up and out from the slides on either side.
Once I had removed the small cover I could see there was a substantial buildup of ice inside under the condenser unit.
Using a large syringe and boiling water I pushed the hit water along the full width of the condenser bottom.
It only took 5 full syringe fulls to clear the ice (the fridge had been off fir about 1 1/2 hours by thus stage.
Finally the drain hole was cleared and I could pull the remaking ice buildup out with a flat blade screw driver being careful not to puncture any of the silver tape that’s surrounding the drain tray area.
On a side note, I found what appeared to be a flake of onion skin in the rear drain tray after all this, so maybe that was stuck in the drain pipe and started the problem, plus I have removed the small stainless wire that hangs down into the hole from under the condenser.
Hopefully this has rectified the situation, and I’ll now keep an eye every six months or so on the rest of the unit, just to make sure the cat hair stays away.
Cheers
Thanks James, great idea with the plastic cutting mat - worked perfectly.
As others have mentioned, the exit of the drain pipe may have a bunch of little rubber "fingers" that can trap dirt at the end of the pipe (just above the drip tray - which is accessed from the back of the fridge). I'm guessing that these "fingers" are the result of the forming process of the drain pipe itself and should not be there. In our case the pipe had been blocked at the exit by what looked like a semi-solid clump of animal fur, that had built up over 10 years or so.
Awesome! thanks you James. I got that far but could not see the tray as the whole area had ice layer across it! All looked like it was a panel. Great work!
Hi everyone. I don't go into my account as I don't usually post videos. I just thought it might be helpful so was bowled over by the number of comments and likes that have accumulated over the last 5 years. Thanks so much for the love.
Thank you to those who suggested going through the back of the fridge. I went in second time around based on your comments but it is sealed so went back through the front again to fix the problem.
If you're still reading you might find this story interesting. I got this fridge second hand off Gumtree in 2015. It's previous owner was in the band The Sunny Boys. If you're my vintage you might know who they are.
I’m glad I popped up at the end dad
thank you, I watched your video and then unblocked the fridge drain! brilliant
I had the same problem. The steps are to remove the white plate inside the freezer section and use a hair dryer to melt the remaining ice. Go to the back of the unit and remove the white tray above the condenser. Take care unclipping the tubes. Assuming all the ice has melted, poke a wire up the drainage tube and look inside for the top to come out of the tube It's surprising how much 'flob' there is on the end of the tube. Reassemble. Switch on and hope for the best 🙂
I had the same problem but found the drain hole was blocked. Much easier to access this from the rear of the fridge. Have to undo the evaporation tray and carefully unclip the evaporator pipes. You can then access the drain hole and clean it with a cotton bud. This will allow the condensation to drain out and evaporate on the tray as it's designed to do.
Brilliant. Thank you for posting. I had exactly the same issue. It took some time to get the screws on the back plate off as I didn't have a 'square' allen key. I ended up using a chisel to make slits to get a flat head screw driver in. The drain hole had a clump of plastic which came from the manufacturing process so had blocked and caused the same issue with ice blocking it.
You my friend are a legend , ever in Ballarat I’ll buy you a drink!
Thank you so much for this. I had the same problem. I also cleaned the drip tube with a piece of wire. I also cleaned the white reservoir in the lower back of the fridge. I cleaned the drip tube from that side also. This video saved me about $200. Thanks again.
T K how did you remove the panel
Michael Vuckovic I didn’t have to remove the back panel. There was enough room on the bottom to pour hot water.
Thanks mate. That worked a treat and saved me a service fee!
NOTE: The drip tray is filling up because the drain hole is blocked. It could just be ice, or it could be some kind of crud that's found its way back there.
I assumed it was blocked with ice because I couldn't imagine any kind of crud getting back there in the freezer. So... I ended up cleaning out the ice 3 times over a few weeks. With the final (hopefully) ice removal, I pushed a very small bottle brush into the drain hole. That forced a big nasty glob of lint-like gunk to drop out into the evaporation tray on the backside of the fridge.
I was kind of shocked. Where could that have come from?
Anyway. If you are having this problem follow James' directions, AND try using some wire or small flexible tool to push out whatever is blocking the drain tube.
Dust my friend. Likely build up of dust combined with food excretions, etc.
Thanks from me too. This worked perfectly. Ended up also using a small kitchen butane torch as well, and some of the kids pipe cleaners to finally clear the pipe.
Thanks for that James! Just did our beer fridge today and will tackle the F&P 500 next with your help!
Great work James, very selfless!
Thanks James! Worked a treat. By the way, I didn’t need to take the draw out.
For anyone trying to unclog these holes quickly a jet steamer is the way to go.
Thankyou so much for sharing this saved us an expensive call to the repair man! Cheers 👍🏼
Thanks so much - you just saved us a couple of hundred dollars.
Thanks James, saved me lots of time
You're a bloody hero, mate. Thanks.
many thanks, the boiling water and plastic mat trick WORKED!!
Awesome vid thanks very much, this was exactly the problem with my fridge and thanks to your video it is now working again!
Perfect excellent help...I feel your pain when you got nowhere to go for help, where do you go? UA-cam
Yes, thanks for that. These fridges are good, but not the easiest in the world to get at things.
Thank you, just tried this so fingers crossed it works.
Turkey baster and boiling water worked for me on the weekend to get the ice blockage from that freezer drainage hole
Hi! This is great - thank you! But can you tell me where to find a video that shows how to get the drawer out? I can't find one anywhere! Thank you!
You're the best man. Thankyou so much ❤️
Thank-you very much James, this has been a great help.
Legend!!! Helped out mate
Mate, you're a legend! Thanks heaps
Tack that made my life so better
Worked perfectly!!!! Thank you for posting this...T.
Hubba hubba! More videe please, Mr Hori
😂
Thank you so much!!!
Great video mate! Very helpful. Anyone know why this happens / what can cause the drain to freeze over?? Has happened twice this year.
thank you so much!! this fixed my fridge! :) 👍
I can't get to the screws on mine. It has an annoying flap at the bottom of the panel that is wedged oh so tightly into the left and right sides. Grrr. BTW, if you don't want it to happen again, gently coil a piece of stiff wire and insert into the drain hole a small way so that water can still get down hole. Other end of wire, wrap around the defrost heater element. Won't ice up again. It's an industry fix for design problem
thanks James - but can you show how to replace the back panel!! I just removed it and unblocked the drainage hole, but can't get the panel back on ;)
Thank you so much! This helped so much. However mine freezes over again after a couple of days. Do you know what the cause of this could be? It very frustrating to have to do this multiple times a week haha I have checked that water flows down the hole and that it is not blocked but still continues to freeze over.
Thanks heaps legend. Worked perfect.
Our bottom freezer fridge a little different to that shown almost impossible to get back of freezer compartment so used hair dryer to blast back up the vent at the back - also disconnected evaporation draw - and cleaned Bottom of tube - about a litre of water came into the Evap tray after about 30 mins of intermittent hair dryer usage. In the process of fault analysis Fischer Paykal useless only suggesting $200 callout- from their site were directed to engage an expert by paying $5 nothing ever heard and then a week later $40 extracted from our account by these people - We will never buy another Fischer Paykell Appliance
Please show us how to remove and reinstall the door
Did this stop the water from spilling out? I've melted the ice but checked it later and the ice had formed back. Should i try draining the water from the tray or could it be the line isn't completely free
Poke a coathanger gently down the hole and make sure water can drain before putting it all back together
Muchas gracias!
I'm currently defrosting with hairdryer also and was wondering if my tray under the fridge would be overflowing with all the defrosted ice now, since the fridge has been off for a while so the compression heater won't be evaporating it...
James is the fan cover at out side one. Are you just pulling out or taping on some my fridge has same issue , but the cover won’t came out, you got idea? Thanks 😊
Thanks mate For the video
Will the fridge gather ice right after and the same problem again?
Hi Bass, no worries. Hopefully you got it sorted. The water should drain away and not hang around to freeze up, maybe the line is not completely cleared?
Thanks James - could not work out how to get the door off freezer. But managed to defrost tray and clear drain hole. Does anyone know how to get the freezer door off? Cheers Rob
We currently have the same fridge and the same problem, Do you know how to get the drawer out?
Hi Chris, I benefitted from James' vid as well. But I didn't take the back panel out or the drawer off. I had plenty of room to access the drain hole and pour boiling water in there. I just hope I left the water in the tray and hole long enough to make sure the drainage pipe was properly cleared. Good luck.
thanks so much for this info, I have the same model fridge RF610ADUX3, must be a common issue with these fridges!
How do u remove the back panel ?
2 screws at the bottom to remove the cover then gently pull the back panel away, be careful as it has wires attached. As always, be safe and unplug the power first.
How did you remove the cover? I can't find any screws. Does it just pull off? Do the sides come of first then the back?
Did you find a way to get it off? Can't find any screw driver that will fit the screws and I don't want to break the panel...?
Thanks, James. Can you send me the link on how to take the drawer out? I have a FP RF201ADUSX5 and the door handle on the freezer has come loose. Any idea on how I can access the screw to tighten it? Thanks in advance.
This is perfect. Thanks, Darren. Do you happen to have a link for taking off the insulation panel on that same bottom drawer? I need to access it to tighten the handle screw that has come loose.
@@roozr - Sorry but the closest I saw to that was on how to replace the door. No instructions on taking the door apart on the site I referenced.
But how did you take the back panel off
Where do I find how to remove the Freezer Draw?
how plastic remove from freeze?
Does anyone know if this solution applies if the leak *seems* to be coming from underneath the fridge?
Mine was showing up mostly on the left side, but at both of the front feet, seemingly from underneath. This is caused by the water having nowhere to go so building up in the bottom of the freezer as a thin sheet of ice that melts and then freezes.
Why doesn't anyone show how to get the bloody panel off!!!!!!!?????? 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
This video shows how to get the draws off: ua-cam.com/video/-1RhDQkGh1g/v-deo.html
here is the link to remove the front drawer
vimeo.com/44937747
Champion! Same fridge and same problem I think. Water leaking from the front left corner.