It usually doesn’t take much effort to keep your refrigerator running. As long as you clean up any spills or messes and check the seal regularly to make sure there’s no cold air leaking, you’ll usually be fine.
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But like any appliance, your refrigerator can occasionally have problems that require attention from you or a professional technician. For example, you might walk into your kitchen one day and notice a puddle of water on the floor in front of your refrigerator. Upon closer inspection, you realize that it’s not a spill or a melted ice cube: it’s a leak coming from the bottom of your refrigerator.
This is a relatively common problem, and in some (but not all) cases, it has a relatively simple DIY fix. But before you can try to stop a leak, you need to figure out what’s causing it. I enlisted the help of an appliance repair expert for advice on how to troubleshoot refrigerator leaks and why you shouldn’t ignore them.
Jason Carter, an appliance technician for more than nine years, has found that most refrigerator leaks are due to one of three common problems: a clogged water line, a clogged defrost drain, or an unlevel refrigerator. Here’s what Carter, who’s also the founder of Simply Swider, a website that offers expert advice on DIY appliance repairs and other home maintenance tasks, recommends to find the source of your refrigerator leak:
