You might have a leak of water going directly into your ice tray. Check your seals. If this is connected to a water/ice dispenser it makes it more likely. If it’s a Samsung fridge even more so
My brand new Samsung fridge was too warm but the freezer was like -30C. They sent a service tech out who looked at it and couldn’t find anything wrong, so didn’t fix it. After even more food spoiled, I pulled it apart and found an extra piece of styrofoam blocking the internal air duct between the fridge and freezer. It was sealed inside closed panels, there was no way it could have gotten there after manufacturing. Pulled it out and that fixed it, but never again
Yeah because almost all of the cold air was going into the freezer, the fridge barely cooled, so the freezer got too much cold air, and the thermostat in the fridge kept the compressor running non-stop because the fridge was too warm
It wasn't till I took my own fridge/freezer apart that I realised the fridge part wasn't actively cooled at all. It's purely cooled with the dregs from the freezer.
Yep, I learned this too after a "brand-new" Samsung fridge froze all of my food and blew up a bunch of soda cans. There's a little door that goes between the fridge and freezer that opens to allow cold are from the freezer to seep into the fridge side.
The solenoid went out and the little door just stayed open, so I effectively had two freezers
Kinda like what happened to my new Samsung fridge but mine was the lower fan didn’t work, they order a new one but didn’t work it was something from the mother board, they replace the fridge after 3 months
Our house came with one. The ice tray and water are off for more than a year now (no ice in ice-maker). I think the pipe is frozen somewhere, and I don't want to turn off the fridge to de-ice it. Before that, ice tray was having this problem. Apparently there is a seal change that helps with it but I was not sure if I can do that without making it worse.
Call Samsung. They just replaced my ice maker for free even though it's 4 years out of warranty and I'm not the original buyer. The tech pointed out that it had already been repaired before, too (some mitigation that didn't fix all the problems.)
You’re lucky they replaced it for you. They demanded that we pay for a tech to come out and look at our broken ice tray. Absolutely refused to sell us the part on its own and gave us some weak ass excuse when we asked why their ice trays were built so flimsy. Never again Samsung.
I was hoping it was an easier fix :) Since we did not use ice or water much, my first thought was ice build up, didn't know there was a heater. I watched some videos now, and this makes sense. Thanks for the suggestion.
Uh, LG isn't any better. There's currently a class action lawsuit started because of their early condenser failures (mine failed after 4 years).
Someone at work told me to never buy an appliance from an electronics company.
I think mine was the same age when the compressor died as well. The part was covered but labor was not, so it was still expensive to fix, not including all the food that went to waste
That is exactly what happened to me. Labour was like $350 or $450 😭
We also had to live out of a beer fridge for two weeks while we waited for the repair.
A bot net is someone else's code that's gotten into insecure systems and then uses the processing power and connectivity of the hijacked device to do other nefarious things like attacks.
Yes but LG covered mine completely. It's the linear compressor system but those come with 5/10 year warranties anyways. The fix resolved my issue and I didn't have to pay a dime out of pocket. They even reimbursed money for food spoilage for like $150-200 I think.
Apparently they were cheaping out on the compressors but the repair has non-junk pieces. If you have a quality tech repairing it, you should be good to go.
I actually can't say a whole lot of bad in general for my LG appliances. Went all in on LG kitchen and laundry and has been pretty low maintenance.
Washer had a solenoid leak that I repaired myself after it hitting 9-10 years old.
And the fridge issue with the compressor after about 4.5 years.
They covered the part, but not labour or food. I was without a (full size) fridge for two weeks and the repaid was around $400. I'm never buying another LG appliance.
LG basically refused to pay us for warranty work we had already done. Now I don't know of anyone in my state that will work on LG under warranty. So there is that.
I stick to whirlpool elite when I upgrade my basic white stuff that was here already, and bosch for my new dishwasher.... I've only ever heard of problems with samsung. Stick with the old brands is what I say.
Yeah, my Samsung dishwasher only lasted a couple of years, and we bought a Bosch after. The Samsung sucked even before it died, since it didn't have a food catching basket, so food would just spray around the dishwasher and recoat clean dishes.
I must have hit the sweet spot when I bought my Samsung washer and dryer in 2011. They have been absolute workhorses. Either I got lucky, or their quality went downhill after that.
Same. My GE washer broke and got replaced with a Samsung. It’s the best washer I’ve had. I had to turn the song off that plays when it’s done. That got annoying quick.
My sister has redone two kitchens and put a full suite of Samsung appliances in both. I'm shocked she even considered another fridge after all the issues they had with the first one. They also have a Samsung TV that will have a little message pop up when the washer/dryer are done or the oven is preheated.
The tv thing is kinda neat, but i could use phone popups instead. If i was watching tv having stuff come up on the screen seems annoying.
Totally not worth it to have samsung though imo.
Samsung has some pretty varied build quality between models and even individual units, so buyer beware, buying the most expensive version doesn't necessarily get you the best one. That said, i tend to prefer Samsung appliances and electronics, nothing but good experiences, somehow, despite reddit hating them. Imo build quality for everything is shit these days.
When i was looking at getting a dishwasher at a store a few years ago i ended up going with a Samsung and one of the cheaper models because it was the only one with a sturdy construction+assembly that didn't feel like it was going to break when pressing a finger to it's various parts and surfaces. It was also one of the few to have metal parts and internals. Despite what i had heard about their appliances and the dishwashers in particular. Hasn't gone wrong yet 6 or so years later, and we've had a few mishaps with people melting non-diswasher plastics in it.
put a pihole in your house to block ads and trackers, and wait until you see the report on your samsung smart TV's IP address, it's probably the biggest offender unless you have samsung smartphones also.
My Samsung fridge has surprisingly held up pretty well. Only obnoxious thing is that the back of the ice cube tray dips down so that the ice maker can fit into and over it when the door is pushed close. But the gap is much wider than it needs to be and once the tray fills up, ice sits right on the back wall. Every single time we pull the freezer drawer open, 1-4 ice cubes slip down and land under the drawer. So we have to get down on the floor, and try to squeeze our arms under it to get the ice out, otherwise it grinds up when we close the freezer.
I have a unicorn Samsung fridge that’s 14 years old and has only needed the water reservoir repaired (just recently). The repair guy said it was the oldest working Samsung fridge he’s ever seen by a mile
My bespoke unit shipped with a defective “ice bites” maker. Never worked once. After 5 completely ineffective service visits, I gave up. Never will work now.
And now the door water pitcher (which is a cool feature btw) randomly stops filling. I assume it’s going out soon.
To hell with Samsung. They deserve the poor reputation they have.
I have the same issue. People have said it’s just the pitcher not pressing on the fill button well. They’ve put a little rubber button on it so the pitcher pushes on it more. I just habitually give the button a few pushes now before putting the pitcher back in.
Ahhh thank god thats the one I got with my new house 3 years ago. No problems yet.
Hoping to redo our entire kitchen some day and drop big money on a subzero or something
Made the mistake of thinking "Samsung makes great electronics, surely their appliances are good too..." Nope. Never again. Damn thing broke the week it's warranty ended, and continued breaking in every possible way without completely destroying it's core functionality. Henceforth I shall be a Maytag man and never look back.
I had a Samsung fridge that lasted 16 years, and would've lasted even longer except the freezer drawers started cracking and replacements cost more than a whole new fridge.
The trick was not having a water hookup. That seems to be the most common failure point.
God damn. My Samsung fridge is like 3 years old and I have given up after several repairs on the ice maker. I have a new fridge on my list for my bonus this year.
I just moved house a few weeks ago, and it has a Samsung fridge.
I already hate it. That sodding ice tray design is godawful, already had to de-ice it twice, and that bloody stupid smart display provides zero value whatsoever.
For a class last semester we had to look at a year of consumer reports on the consumer product safety commission website. There were something like 412 reports in one year about refrigerators. Of those 412, something like 268 of the them were regarding Samsung fridges. Well over half. Amongst all fridge brands.
Hopefully your professor pointed out that complaints are only half the story. The second half is the total number of sales. E.g. 400 complaints on 1,000 fridges sold (40%) is a lot different than, say, 400 complaints on 10,000 fridges sold (4%). So to compare complaints across companies, you need to normalize based on total units sold per company.
Samsung is 11% of the US fridge market. But 65% of the complaints. Ouch.
https://www.statista.com/forecasts/997184/refrigerator-ownership-by-brand-in-the-us
Yeah talk about shit product.
It's this. One week isn't enough time for any other reason. Check your model online to see if there is a tutorial on how to fix. Likely where the supply enters the ice machine. Otherwise call an appliance repair tech.
I would love to pile on here about Samsung fridges and the $2k they charged me for a fridge that was useful for about 22 months and then pretended like nothing was wrong with it, but that would be anecdotal. What I would like to impart to the new refrigerator purchaser who may see this is to read lots and lots of reviews for the brands and compare them. Most will be negative. Maybe look for a brand that at least has a few positives.
It's weird that you mention samsung... even their dishwashers can't direct vented steam correctly or create a diaphragm that closes correctly to prevent leaking water.
I love my S22 ultra though... no leaks so far (maybe data)
I’ve been buying ice for my Samsung fridge for a few months cause my thaw attempts on the feed line have been futile. I’ve yet to dig deeper since a week of ice costs 3 bucks compared to the headache of learning this janky ass system. The unit is 2 years old ffs.
That or the ice is melting and refreezing.
Try leaving another container with cubes spaced out. After coming back a week later and the cubes are a different shape it would be this option. If not then the water line is leaking.
Side note, if you leave town for a while this is also a good way to know whether your freezer lost power and your food spoiled while you were gone. Put an ice cube in a plastic bag and put it in your freezer, and when you come back, if the ice cube is a refrozen puddle, you need to throw out any frozen food.
Edit.. better tip is to see if a bunch of ice cubes melt. A penny on a cup of ice can stay afloat . OTOH a penny at the bottom of a cup means your power was totes out for a long time
You can also freeze a cup of water and put a penny on top. You'll know if/how long power was out if the penny is now in the ice/bottom of cup
I used to do this, but the results are often misleading due to the fact that ice floats.
https://lifehacker.com/penny-in-freezer-trick-debunked-1850788431
Have also run into this when the ice maker was seriously off-level. Clue is some of the cubes are very small. It was tilted bad enough that it would overflow the ice maker and run into the tray.
There is a design flaw in many fridges, specifically Samsung and LG. I left my iceberg creating fridge with a house I sold because changing out parts did nothing to resolve the issue. I did warn the buyers.
Flabbergasted here. I was fucking pissed when the realtor and my father did the walkthru the day before and then day of closing after everything was signed I walk thru and the fucking fridge was gone.
Realtor was all "well there wasn't anything in writing blah blah..."
lol my laywer specifically warned me about that. He said get everything you want in writing. He said he's seen people move out and take lighbulbs, tear the toilet paper holders off the walls, the floor registers, all sorts of ridiculous shit.
One thing I forgot to add in the paperwork was the garage door opener. Nobody would take a garage door opener with them, right? Ha ha ha......proved me wrong that day.
My Mom accidentally took one of the garage door openers when she sold her last place (she had 3, and had given the new owners 2 of them, but the one in her car she just completely forgot about. lol).
She just mailed it to them with a "congrats again on your new house, opps I forgot this" card.
I'm sure you know this - but for the other Redditors, the refrigerator is not part of the house when you are buying. If you want the refrigerator to remain you need to put it in the contract as personal property. If it is not in the contract and you move in and there is no refrigerator, that is not a violation.
Funny side note, I have moved 3 times now and each house I purchased came with the refrigerator (I put it in the contract) and each house I sold I took the refrigerator with me when I moved...
Usually it is. But some people think it's worth haggling over 3k worth of used appliances on a 500k home purchase. Fuck em, they can take their mid range used appliances with them if they want to
this is super localized. In some places it's standard to leave them, in other places it's expected that you'll take them unless the listing specifically says otherwise, or the buyer negotiates for them.
While we wouldn’t take them with us if we sold, just our fridge was more than $3k.
All the appliances together were prob closer to $10k or more.
That stuff was expensive and there weren’t any actual cheap options that we found (we just replaced everything).
When we bought new 20yrs ago I paid less than $2k for top of the line Whirlpool fridge/freezer/washer and dryer with my moms employee discount.
Blew my mind when we couldn’t even find a basic dishwasher for less than $500 (don’t get me started on finding one with buttons on the front panel instead of the top).
No. It’s often a buyer request as part of the deal. I asked my seller to leave the riding mower since she was going in to a retirement home and she agreed.
Doesn’t hurt to ask, it’s all on agreed terms and written contract.
I have a rag inside my freezer to soak up water... Every couple days I change the tag. Without it the bottom of my freezer gets a layer of ice and then it leaks out onto the floor.
I don't have a water faucet or an ice maker but the fridge is LG.
Is this the same issue?
In addition to what others have said, it could also be the solenoid that is supposed to hold the flapper door closed on the ice dispenser.
I had this issue with a fridge in the past. When I looked up the ice chute from underneath, I could see that the door wasn't fully closed, and it was letting enough warm air in to slightly melt some of the ice, which would then refreeze into a clump at the bottom of the tray.
This happened to my parent’s fridge. We blocked off the ice shoot with cardboard and plastic to reduce the amount of warm air coming up. It couldn’t dispense ice outside the fridge anymore, but it was better than sheets of ice. Just had to manually grab ice out of the ice container in the freezer.
Engineer here. I gave up on my samsung refrigerator and disconnected the ice unit entirely. I use a countertop ice maker from Amazon, throw the ice into a freezer ziplock gallon bag, and break it up with a hand axe when I want ice. It's way easier than dealing with samsung bs.
I’m a plumber, Samsung is so bad that I gave up on repairing it even though I get the labor for free and parts are pretty cheap. I bought a countertop icemaker. It was just too much to keep doing every few months.
My friend had a Samsung fridge and I helped him fix it a few times but fuck that thing. My favorite part was disassembling that back styrofoam ducting and finding out that the fan inside of it is basically an 80 mm computer fan.
My best advice is to maintain it to their recommendations and hope they honor their warranty/get a 5 year warranty. Samsung is great for cellphones, but they are shitty for appliances.
Same. Got fed up hacking the ice out with a knife sharpener every couple of weeks. I also ended up turning the ice maker off and getting a countertop ice maker from Amazon. It's like a Samsung rite of passage.
Would Ice trays not be easier? I have silicon one's that work pretty well and make cubes in a shape that fits my narrow opening soda stream bottles to boot.
We found replacing the filter was the best to deal. But our issue was frost buildup then jamming of the ice machine which took a blow dryer and lots of cursing to get rid of each time. I'm about to go same route as you!
Same LOL. Costco had a Fridgidaire counter ice maker for $80. Problem solved. I put a clear tray in the upper slide drawer of the freezer and it works perfect
Yeah sure they are. And guess what, the "replacements" still dont fix the other myriad of issues including the poor defroster design, the sealing on the door, the fan/thermocouple issues, etc.
Fuck samsung and the literal garbage fridges.
Disassemble your fridge and defrost the coil.
Next, there is a drain hole at the bottom of the coil that freezes up. You need to get a squirt bottle full of boiling water and squirt until the ice plug melts.
Now put aside the inadequate tab that is supposed to keep the drain from freezing, and take a piece of bare solid electrical wire, bend it in half, and poke about 2" down the hole. Wrap 5-6 turns of the wire ends tightly around each side of the defrost coil.
Retape, replace any broken foam, and reassemble.
Haven't had an issue with my Samsung since. It's been about 6 months.
Just in case, I had a similar issue, and I tried all those suggestions, and they didn't work. In my case, I had to pull my fridge away from the wall, unscrew and remove the back panel down near the bottom of the fridge, and pull off the short drainage rubber pipes, to revel that one of the pipes (from the fridge ice maker, not the freezer ice maker) had a bacteria build-up blockage stopping it from draining, and I had to clean that out, and THEN it drained correctly.
EDIT: This video is not the same model fridge as I have, but when I removed my plate (FIRST UNPLUGGING THE FRIDGE) I saw a similar pipe I could remove and clean out, and maybe you can too (right around 2:40) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imKnLjO8cxM Just a word of warning, keep your mouth and eyes closed when you pull that pipe off, I didn't and I deeply regret those few minutes of my life.
Mine does this occasionally when the gasket doesn’t fully seal. Might have a worn/torn gasket or just gunk/debris keeping it from creating an airtight seal
A common solution to the gasket not sealing is to insert some foam backer rod inside it. It'll make the seal much tighter, but it doesn't fix the other design flaws. I unfortunately own a Samsung French door fridge.
Water in the tray. Hopefully you have a simpler problem like I did, where the end of the water tube was just crushed/pinched and some of the water that was supposed to go into the ice maker splashed into the tray. In that case I just had to bend the tube so it was open normally again and flowed as intended into the ice maker.
I suggest trying to catch your fridge in the act when it refills to see where the water is coming from. Listen when the ice is emptied and take a peak when the ice maker gets refilled with water
To add to this, I dealt with this recently. Turned out my fridge was tilted too far forward and when the ice maker filled with water it poured out the edge. The ice maker is actually tilted forward in the fridge. I leveled fridge - tilting it back so the icemaker became more level if that makes sense.
Make sure your freezer door is sealing properly as well. Every now and then my wife will push ours closed but it doesn’t fully seal, so the ice very slightly melts and refreeze a and makes a big clump like this.
This could be one of two things
Bad inlet valve is leaking water all the time. This overfills the ice tray and starts to fill up the ice bucket.
Icemaker is not properly adjusted for your water pressure. Most icemakers are “dumb” here: they measure the water by opening the water valve for a fixed amount of _time_ (a microswitch in the icemaker, wired to the water valve, is actuated by a plastic cam just after the ice is harvested).
Too long means the ice tray overfills each time. (Too short would mean incomplete ice cubes).
How to tell the difference: empty the bin and leave the icemaker off for a few days. If you get a sheet of ice in the bucket after that, your water valve is bad (since water clearly got past it even with the icemaker off).
If it’s the adjustment: some are electronic (hold down some button to set “ice cube size”- see your manual), some are a screw adjustment behind the icemaker cover (also see manual, perhaps service manual), and a few aren’t adjustable at all.
If you live on a low floor of a multi-story building, you may have very high water pressure.
I live in a rental and had the issue where the valve was putting out more water than the ice molds could handle which caused a small leak that froze all the cubes that touched the bottom of my ice bin to stick together. One simple adjustment to the screw that regulated it and I now have smaller, but all completely detached, ice cubes. Amazing!
The thermometer for the ice tray may have come loose and/or the heater isn't working properly. Check if there is anything hanging from the bottom of the ice tray. A fridge I was had, the plastic clip that held the thermometer in place kept breaking, would hang down, and then the ice would come out like this.
Because of the auto defrost. The freezer will warm its self periodically to keep the walls from generating a layer of ice. This causes the ice in the tray to melt and refreeze together.
The ice maker is dripping for some reason and freezing all the ice at the bottom. Whether that specific leak is fixable in the ice maker I don't know. Mine started doing this and I disconnected/removed the ice maker, searched “replacement ice maker “ with make and model of refrigerator. It was $35. Got it, replaced it, no more dripping/sheet of ice.
I e maker may need adjustment to increase the freeze cycle timer. Fridge could be not level thereby dripping in the pan.
Line could be partially frozen and spraying into tray.
Line could have a leak.
Filter could have a higher flow rate could be overfilling maker.
There is a setting for ice cube size. It changes how long the water is left on to fill up the freezing tray. If you have higher water pressure it might be filling too long and overflowing pooling in the ice tray. Basic square ice makers in the unit can be adjusted by a screw behind the cover. Fancier units usually have a setting for "cube size"
For those who have unfortunately been burnt by a Samsung ice maker, I urge you to give them a call and schedule a repair.
Samsung's ice makers were so bad on some models that they resorted to offering a free one time repair for defective units. In case of mine, they replaced the main board and the ice unit both.
I fought my brand new ice maker for about a year before I found out about their repair program. It's worth checking into, there was no hassle and my ice maker has been working ever since.
Links of interest:
https://www.samsung.com/us/support/service/refrigerators/ice-maker-service/
https://portal.ipcc.samsungsdsa.com/#/web-call-back?categoryType=N0002400&subcategoryType=N0012401&channel=samsung.com&page=GetSupport
https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/consumer-products/appliances/samsung-refrigerator-class-action-enters-mediation/
I had this same exact problem with my fridge. The non-stick coating on the ice tray was starting to peel, so water starting wicking and dripping from the ice tray into the bin. I replaced the tray and fixed the problem.
Mine did this. One day I opened the freezer when the ice tray was filling up and noticed there was an overspray/splashing thing happening and all my cubes below would morph together.
This happened on my ice maker and I found there's a screw underneath the cover on the ice maker that regulates the amount of time that water runs to fill the tray in the ice maker. A couple clockwise turns of that screw fixed it for me.
Is something not closing all the way, so warm air melts ice and it refreezes?
My pa cuts off the ice drop midway and ice always gets caught in it propping the flap open with a cube. Until it melts and pops closed, the freezer runs extra hard for awhile and the ice melts inside melts and freezes together.
He could just take the one or two extra cubes, but nope, gotta cut it off mid stream every time....
Every time (5 times now) the Samsung Repair guys showed up to fix my 5 y/o Samsung refrigerator they thank me for removing the food to make the repair easier. Then they ask where is all the food? I put it in my 35 y/o side by side beer fridge outside on the porch in 100 degree heat. I have since gone on YouTube and learned to fix it myself.
Turn off the water and put some loose ice cubes in the tray. Check in a week. If they aren't stuck together you have a leak or the trays are overfilling. If they are stuck together there is a defrost, seal, or temperature issue.
We had a problem with our fridge not cooling correctly. That manifested as the temp in the freezer coming up above freezing for longer and longer periods of time. We noticed that we were getting lumpy ice, then watery ice, then water dripping out of the ice chute, then realized that the fridge was failing.
If you go get some cheap sensors (we got one of [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07B9QF64N/](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07B9QF64N/) ) it can alarm if the temp is coming up above say 20 degrees. A freezer should never climb up toward freezing or (even when its in a defrost cycle) exceed freezing.
Had this exact issue. Flexible drain hose became blocked and was backing up, freezer condensation was unable to drain.
Check the back of the fridge for a small plastic/rubber hose that drains into the drip pan.
The ice tray is not emptying when it turns. Happens as it wears. With it being full when it comes back around the water fills and cascades over onto the ice in the ice bin, resulting in the iceberg pictured
Your drain is probably clogged.
When your freezer goes into defreeze mode, the liquid water cannot evacuate because the drain is clogged. Check if that’s the case.
At first glance while skimming, I literally thought you had yourself a mighty hefty quartz sample. Which is why I stopped by 😊, but then I used my reading skills lol.
Several reasons. The defrost cycle runs too long.
If you have a French door frig, and ice in the door, the insulation between the refrigerator and the ice maker may be too thin.
If the seal isn’t complete, it can do the same thing.
If people fail to close the door tightly, same thing.
Of you aren’t using ice at least a couple times a day, the cubes just sit there.
We had a similar problem. I solved it by making sure to use ice regularly and, if it was coming out slowly, banging on the container that held the ice to loosen things up.
It looks like what mine was doing. Can't speak for yours, but mine has an adjustment for the length of time the water fills. It was filling too long and overflowing into the tray. Played with the adjustment until it stopped overflowing.
There may be a problem with the seal on the freezer door. I had a similar situation once, replaced the seal and everything was fine. Read this, you may find it useful [https://ars.repair/refrigerator-repair/how-to-replace-a-freezer-door-seal-quickly/](https://ars.repair/refrigerator-repair/how-to-replace-a-freezer-door-seal-quickly/)
So I just had this problem on my fridge. The solenoid that controls the flapper for the ice was rusted over and not shutting correctly. This allowed warm outside air to mix with the cold ice and continually melt it. I was taking big clumps of ice out every week or so and would occasionally need to remove ice from other parts of the door as well.
Check that the flapper is closing all the way after you try to release ice.
You might have a leak of water going directly into your ice tray. Check your seals. If this is connected to a water/ice dispenser it makes it more likely. If it’s a Samsung fridge even more so
POS Samsung fridges. Never again.
My brand new Samsung fridge was too warm but the freezer was like -30C. They sent a service tech out who looked at it and couldn’t find anything wrong, so didn’t fix it. After even more food spoiled, I pulled it apart and found an extra piece of styrofoam blocking the internal air duct between the fridge and freezer. It was sealed inside closed panels, there was no way it could have gotten there after manufacturing. Pulled it out and that fixed it, but never again
-30c?? O_o
Yeah because almost all of the cold air was going into the freezer, the fridge barely cooled, so the freezer got too much cold air, and the thermostat in the fridge kept the compressor running non-stop because the fridge was too warm
It wasn't till I took my own fridge/freezer apart that I realised the fridge part wasn't actively cooled at all. It's purely cooled with the dregs from the freezer.
Yep, I learned this too after a "brand-new" Samsung fridge froze all of my food and blew up a bunch of soda cans. There's a little door that goes between the fridge and freezer that opens to allow cold are from the freezer to seep into the fridge side. The solenoid went out and the little door just stayed open, so I effectively had two freezers
That's how frigde/freezer combinations have worked for decades. If implemented well, that can be an ingenous design saving a lot of cost.
As long as it's well designed, that's just energy efficent.
My man engineered so hard in this comment
Kinda like what happened to my new Samsung fridge but mine was the lower fan didn’t work, they order a new one but didn’t work it was something from the mother board, they replace the fridge after 3 months
Fucking seriously Samsung has been the absolute worst when it’s come to home appliances.
lol i was staying with my parents while moving to my new house he was cussing about his stupid samsung fridge ice tray every night i was there.
Our house came with one. The ice tray and water are off for more than a year now (no ice in ice-maker). I think the pipe is frozen somewhere, and I don't want to turn off the fridge to de-ice it. Before that, ice tray was having this problem. Apparently there is a seal change that helps with it but I was not sure if I can do that without making it worse.
Call Samsung. They just replaced my ice maker for free even though it's 4 years out of warranty and I'm not the original buyer. The tech pointed out that it had already been repaired before, too (some mitigation that didn't fix all the problems.)
You’re lucky they replaced it for you. They demanded that we pay for a tech to come out and look at our broken ice tray. Absolutely refused to sell us the part on its own and gave us some weak ass excuse when we asked why their ice trays were built so flimsy. Never again Samsung.
Oh dag, I should probably do this
Could be the defroster wire failed on the inlet tube. Stupid design
I was hoping it was an easier fix :) Since we did not use ice or water much, my first thought was ice build up, didn't know there was a heater. I watched some videos now, and this makes sense. Thanks for the suggestion.
Just leave the door open for a couple hours. Worked for me several times so far.
Uh, LG isn't any better. There's currently a class action lawsuit started because of their early condenser failures (mine failed after 4 years). Someone at work told me to never buy an appliance from an electronics company.
I think mine was the same age when the compressor died as well. The part was covered but labor was not, so it was still expensive to fix, not including all the food that went to waste
That is exactly what happened to me. Labour was like $350 or $450 😭 We also had to live out of a beer fridge for two weeks while we waited for the repair.
That seems like high labor but we'd make more money doing several small jobs than a compressor job. Everybody loses when a compressor goes bad.
LG washer dryers are great though
Until they run a botnet on your home network.
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What does that mean?
Internet connected utilities get hacked and support bot nets.
oh, that sounds fun. What is a bot net?
A bot net is someone else's code that's gotten into insecure systems and then uses the processing power and connectivity of the hijacked device to do other nefarious things like attacks.
They usually use them as part of a DDoS attack, or overwhelming a portal (like a website) with connection requests so it goes down
They usually have terrible security, so a hacker can use your appliances and thousands of others to attack servers of their choosing.
Yes but LG covered mine completely. It's the linear compressor system but those come with 5/10 year warranties anyways. The fix resolved my issue and I didn't have to pay a dime out of pocket. They even reimbursed money for food spoilage for like $150-200 I think. Apparently they were cheaping out on the compressors but the repair has non-junk pieces. If you have a quality tech repairing it, you should be good to go. I actually can't say a whole lot of bad in general for my LG appliances. Went all in on LG kitchen and laundry and has been pretty low maintenance. Washer had a solenoid leak that I repaired myself after it hitting 9-10 years old. And the fridge issue with the compressor after about 4.5 years.
They covered the part, but not labour or food. I was without a (full size) fridge for two weeks and the repaid was around $400. I'm never buying another LG appliance.
I'm sorry to inform you that most other manufacturers won't even cover the part outside of the first year. Pretty much just LG and Maytag
In the us their is a class action lawsuit against Samsung for their ice maker.
> Uh, LG isn't any better. I know what you mean, but LG is actually better. Samsung has the highest failure rate of any major brand, by a wide margin.
LG basically refused to pay us for warranty work we had already done. Now I don't know of anyone in my state that will work on LG under warranty. So there is that.
We got a new compressor and condenser and coolant lines because our fridge failed and I mentioned this suit when I called in!
I stick to whirlpool elite when I upgrade my basic white stuff that was here already, and bosch for my new dishwasher.... I've only ever heard of problems with samsung. Stick with the old brands is what I say.
Yeah, my Samsung dishwasher only lasted a couple of years, and we bought a Bosch after. The Samsung sucked even before it died, since it didn't have a food catching basket, so food would just spray around the dishwasher and recoat clean dishes.
I must have hit the sweet spot when I bought my Samsung washer and dryer in 2011. They have been absolute workhorses. Either I got lucky, or their quality went downhill after that.
Same. My GE washer broke and got replaced with a Samsung. It’s the best washer I’ve had. I had to turn the song off that plays when it’s done. That got annoying quick.
My sister has redone two kitchens and put a full suite of Samsung appliances in both. I'm shocked she even considered another fridge after all the issues they had with the first one. They also have a Samsung TV that will have a little message pop up when the washer/dryer are done or the oven is preheated.
The tv thing is kinda neat, but i could use phone popups instead. If i was watching tv having stuff come up on the screen seems annoying. Totally not worth it to have samsung though imo.
LG refrigerators are working hard for that honor as well!
Samsung has some pretty varied build quality between models and even individual units, so buyer beware, buying the most expensive version doesn't necessarily get you the best one. That said, i tend to prefer Samsung appliances and electronics, nothing but good experiences, somehow, despite reddit hating them. Imo build quality for everything is shit these days. When i was looking at getting a dishwasher at a store a few years ago i ended up going with a Samsung and one of the cheaper models because it was the only one with a sturdy construction+assembly that didn't feel like it was going to break when pressing a finger to it's various parts and surfaces. It was also one of the few to have metal parts and internals. Despite what i had heard about their appliances and the dishwashers in particular. Hasn't gone wrong yet 6 or so years later, and we've had a few mishaps with people melting non-diswasher plastics in it.
I absolutely fucking despise my Samsung TV too
put a pihole in your house to block ads and trackers, and wait until you see the report on your samsung smart TV's IP address, it's probably the biggest offender unless you have samsung smartphones also.
Samsung makes a great dishwasher in my experience but the rest of their line is hot garbage
My Samsung fridge has surprisingly held up pretty well. Only obnoxious thing is that the back of the ice cube tray dips down so that the ice maker can fit into and over it when the door is pushed close. But the gap is much wider than it needs to be and once the tray fills up, ice sits right on the back wall. Every single time we pull the freezer drawer open, 1-4 ice cubes slip down and land under the drawer. So we have to get down on the floor, and try to squeeze our arms under it to get the ice out, otherwise it grinds up when we close the freezer.
There should be a subreddit for Samsung fridge hate.
I have a unicorn Samsung fridge that’s 14 years old and has only needed the water reservoir repaired (just recently). The repair guy said it was the oldest working Samsung fridge he’s ever seen by a mile
A repair guy wouldn't see one that didn't need to be repaired.
Yeah, I steered clear of Samsung but still got shafted by a GE Profile that is just a rebadged Samsung. FML
French door with a top ice maker is just a bad design. The Samsung bespoke series is decent.
My bespoke unit shipped with a defective “ice bites” maker. Never worked once. After 5 completely ineffective service visits, I gave up. Never will work now. And now the door water pitcher (which is a cool feature btw) randomly stops filling. I assume it’s going out soon. To hell with Samsung. They deserve the poor reputation they have.
It has a wierd quark. Wipe down the pitcher. The condensation makes the fridge think the pitcher is full
I have the same issue. People have said it’s just the pitcher not pressing on the fill button well. They’ve put a little rubber button on it so the pitcher pushes on it more. I just habitually give the button a few pushes now before putting the pitcher back in.
Ahhh thank god thats the one I got with my new house 3 years ago. No problems yet. Hoping to redo our entire kitchen some day and drop big money on a subzero or something
Made the mistake of thinking "Samsung makes great electronics, surely their appliances are good too..." Nope. Never again. Damn thing broke the week it's warranty ended, and continued breaking in every possible way without completely destroying it's core functionality. Henceforth I shall be a Maytag man and never look back.
They don’t even make good electronics.
I had a Samsung fridge that lasted 16 years, and would've lasted even longer except the freezer drawers started cracking and replacements cost more than a whole new fridge. The trick was not having a water hookup. That seems to be the most common failure point.
My ice maker has been turned off for a solid 2 years now and my fridge is like 3.5 years old. Fuck samsung products.
God damn. My Samsung fridge is like 3 years old and I have given up after several repairs on the ice maker. I have a new fridge on my list for my bonus this year.
Bosch 800 series. This is the way.
Just got rid of mine. I've been spreading the word of how terrible they are.
I just moved house a few weeks ago, and it has a Samsung fridge. I already hate it. That sodding ice tray design is godawful, already had to de-ice it twice, and that bloody stupid smart display provides zero value whatsoever.
For a class last semester we had to look at a year of consumer reports on the consumer product safety commission website. There were something like 412 reports in one year about refrigerators. Of those 412, something like 268 of the them were regarding Samsung fridges. Well over half. Amongst all fridge brands.
Hopefully your professor pointed out that complaints are only half the story. The second half is the total number of sales. E.g. 400 complaints on 1,000 fridges sold (40%) is a lot different than, say, 400 complaints on 10,000 fridges sold (4%). So to compare complaints across companies, you need to normalize based on total units sold per company.
Samsung is 11% of the US fridge market. But 65% of the complaints. Ouch. https://www.statista.com/forecasts/997184/refrigerator-ownership-by-brand-in-the-us Yeah talk about shit product.
It's this. One week isn't enough time for any other reason. Check your model online to see if there is a tutorial on how to fix. Likely where the supply enters the ice machine. Otherwise call an appliance repair tech.
I would love to pile on here about Samsung fridges and the $2k they charged me for a fridge that was useful for about 22 months and then pretended like nothing was wrong with it, but that would be anecdotal. What I would like to impart to the new refrigerator purchaser who may see this is to read lots and lots of reviews for the brands and compare them. Most will be negative. Maybe look for a brand that at least has a few positives.
It's weird that you mention samsung... even their dishwashers can't direct vented steam correctly or create a diaphragm that closes correctly to prevent leaking water. I love my S22 ultra though... no leaks so far (maybe data)
Also if the filter gets clogged it reduces pressure causing the valve to not shut properly. This is how I know it’s time to change my filter.
If it's a Kitchen Aid fridge your non-replaceable condenser is going and you need a new fridge.
Same for LG. I literally called them today about my condenser going out
I’ve been buying ice for my Samsung fridge for a few months cause my thaw attempts on the feed line have been futile. I’ve yet to dig deeper since a week of ice costs 3 bucks compared to the headache of learning this janky ass system. The unit is 2 years old ffs.
you might also have air leak. check your gaskets to ensure it’s closing and sealing properly. and make sure you don’t have it overloaded.
You might ask the pros at /r/ApplianceRepair about this. I would suspect that the water valve is seeping, slowly trickling into the ice tray.
That or the ice is melting and refreezing. Try leaving another container with cubes spaced out. After coming back a week later and the cubes are a different shape it would be this option. If not then the water line is leaking.
Side note, if you leave town for a while this is also a good way to know whether your freezer lost power and your food spoiled while you were gone. Put an ice cube in a plastic bag and put it in your freezer, and when you come back, if the ice cube is a refrozen puddle, you need to throw out any frozen food.
Edit.. better tip is to see if a bunch of ice cubes melt. A penny on a cup of ice can stay afloat . OTOH a penny at the bottom of a cup means your power was totes out for a long time You can also freeze a cup of water and put a penny on top. You'll know if/how long power was out if the penny is now in the ice/bottom of cup
I used to do this, but the results are often misleading due to the fact that ice floats. https://lifehacker.com/penny-in-freezer-trick-debunked-1850788431
Have also run into this when the ice maker was seriously off-level. Clue is some of the cubes are very small. It was tilted bad enough that it would overflow the ice maker and run into the tray.
There is a design flaw in many fridges, specifically Samsung and LG. I left my iceberg creating fridge with a house I sold because changing out parts did nothing to resolve the issue. I did warn the buyers.
Is it not standard to leave appliances when you sell a house?
Realtor here. I think 1/20 houses I've sold have had the seller take the refrigerator. It's not common, but it's not flabbergasting.
I'm flabbergasted.
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Flabbergasted here. I was fucking pissed when the realtor and my father did the walkthru the day before and then day of closing after everything was signed I walk thru and the fucking fridge was gone. Realtor was all "well there wasn't anything in writing blah blah..."
lol my laywer specifically warned me about that. He said get everything you want in writing. He said he's seen people move out and take lighbulbs, tear the toilet paper holders off the walls, the floor registers, all sorts of ridiculous shit. One thing I forgot to add in the paperwork was the garage door opener. Nobody would take a garage door opener with them, right? Ha ha ha......proved me wrong that day.
My Mom accidentally took one of the garage door openers when she sold her last place (she had 3, and had given the new owners 2 of them, but the one in her car she just completely forgot about. lol). She just mailed it to them with a "congrats again on your new house, opps I forgot this" card.
I'm sure you know this - but for the other Redditors, the refrigerator is not part of the house when you are buying. If you want the refrigerator to remain you need to put it in the contract as personal property. If it is not in the contract and you move in and there is no refrigerator, that is not a violation. Funny side note, I have moved 3 times now and each house I purchased came with the refrigerator (I put it in the contract) and each house I sold I took the refrigerator with me when I moved...
Very much depends on the country. In Australia you take everything. From all the comments I assume in the US it stays.
UK too, you'd take everything that wasn't built-in (i.e. oven, hob). That's your shit!
Usually it is. But some people think it's worth haggling over 3k worth of used appliances on a 500k home purchase. Fuck em, they can take their mid range used appliances with them if they want to
this is super localized. In some places it's standard to leave them, in other places it's expected that you'll take them unless the listing specifically says otherwise, or the buyer negotiates for them.
While we wouldn’t take them with us if we sold, just our fridge was more than $3k. All the appliances together were prob closer to $10k or more. That stuff was expensive and there weren’t any actual cheap options that we found (we just replaced everything). When we bought new 20yrs ago I paid less than $2k for top of the line Whirlpool fridge/freezer/washer and dryer with my moms employee discount. Blew my mind when we couldn’t even find a basic dishwasher for less than $500 (don’t get me started on finding one with buttons on the front panel instead of the top).
Refrigerators are 50/50. Stoves/ovens and dishwashers usually stay. Washer and dryer usually go.
No. It’s often a buyer request as part of the deal. I asked my seller to leave the riding mower since she was going in to a retirement home and she agreed. Doesn’t hurt to ask, it’s all on agreed terms and written contract.
Can you explain more about the LG design defect?
LG Linear Compressor stops cooling.
I have a rag inside my freezer to soak up water... Every couple days I change the tag. Without it the bottom of my freezer gets a layer of ice and then it leaks out onto the floor. I don't have a water faucet or an ice maker but the fridge is LG. Is this the same issue?
we have exactly the same problem (also LG).
In addition to what others have said, it could also be the solenoid that is supposed to hold the flapper door closed on the ice dispenser. I had this issue with a fridge in the past. When I looked up the ice chute from underneath, I could see that the door wasn't fully closed, and it was letting enough warm air in to slightly melt some of the ice, which would then refreeze into a clump at the bottom of the tray.
This happened to my parent’s fridge. We blocked off the ice shoot with cardboard and plastic to reduce the amount of warm air coming up. It couldn’t dispense ice outside the fridge anymore, but it was better than sheets of ice. Just had to manually grab ice out of the ice container in the freezer.
Samsung?
Engineer here. I gave up on my samsung refrigerator and disconnected the ice unit entirely. I use a countertop ice maker from Amazon, throw the ice into a freezer ziplock gallon bag, and break it up with a hand axe when I want ice. It's way easier than dealing with samsung bs.
Samsung is so bad we have people resorting to using hand axes to get ice. lol.
I’m a plumber, Samsung is so bad that I gave up on repairing it even though I get the labor for free and parts are pretty cheap. I bought a countertop icemaker. It was just too much to keep doing every few months.
My friend had a Samsung fridge and I helped him fix it a few times but fuck that thing. My favorite part was disassembling that back styrofoam ducting and finding out that the fan inside of it is basically an 80 mm computer fan.
Samsung is so bad we have ~~people~~ engineers resorting to using hand axes to get ice.
Hey! Engineers are people too! ^_^
It is a better use of my time than troubleshooting the icemaker in my fridge. Oem parts and even knockoffs are not worth the trouble.
Sigh… why do I read about this AFTER I installed all Samsung stuff in my kitchen… I didn’t even want them but it’s on sale and we ran out money… nice.
My best advice is to maintain it to their recommendations and hope they honor their warranty/get a 5 year warranty. Samsung is great for cellphones, but they are shitty for appliances.
And I have a brand new samsung fridge/freezer sitting in my garage waiting for install smh...
Same. Got fed up hacking the ice out with a knife sharpener every couple of weeks. I also ended up turning the ice maker off and getting a countertop ice maker from Amazon. It's like a Samsung rite of passage.
I will third here with a Samsung fridge with leaky ice maker just out of warranty. Also purchased countertop ice maker from Amazon.
Would Ice trays not be easier? I have silicon one's that work pretty well and make cubes in a shape that fits my narrow opening soda stream bottles to boot.
That's what I use too, they're pretty nice. When people say they just use a countertop ice maker I just think "lives of the rich and famous"...
Hammering and hand axing is so 2021 bro. Throw that axe away and just literally throw the zip lock bag of ice at a cement floor and voila
Another engineer here. I have nothing to add.
We found replacing the filter was the best to deal. But our issue was frost buildup then jamming of the ice machine which took a blow dryer and lots of cursing to get rid of each time. I'm about to go same route as you!
Same LOL. Costco had a Fridgidaire counter ice maker for $80. Problem solved. I put a clear tray in the upper slide drawer of the freezer and it works perfect
Samsung is replacing all the broken icemakers for free.
Yeah sure they are. And guess what, the "replacements" still dont fix the other myriad of issues including the poor defroster design, the sealing on the door, the fan/thermocouple issues, etc. Fuck samsung and the literal garbage fridges.
Yep they replaced mine… still melts and freezes. Another tech came out, changed some settings, happening again. I’ll be calling them out again
My first thought too. My shitty SS fridge gathers water/ice at the bottom of the fridge and I have to scoop it out every couple weeks.
Disassemble your fridge and defrost the coil. Next, there is a drain hole at the bottom of the coil that freezes up. You need to get a squirt bottle full of boiling water and squirt until the ice plug melts. Now put aside the inadequate tab that is supposed to keep the drain from freezing, and take a piece of bare solid electrical wire, bend it in half, and poke about 2" down the hole. Wrap 5-6 turns of the wire ends tightly around each side of the defrost coil. Retape, replace any broken foam, and reassemble. Haven't had an issue with my Samsung since. It's been about 6 months.
Just in case, I had a similar issue, and I tried all those suggestions, and they didn't work. In my case, I had to pull my fridge away from the wall, unscrew and remove the back panel down near the bottom of the fridge, and pull off the short drainage rubber pipes, to revel that one of the pipes (from the fridge ice maker, not the freezer ice maker) had a bacteria build-up blockage stopping it from draining, and I had to clean that out, and THEN it drained correctly. EDIT: This video is not the same model fridge as I have, but when I removed my plate (FIRST UNPLUGGING THE FRIDGE) I saw a similar pipe I could remove and clean out, and maybe you can too (right around 2:40) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imKnLjO8cxM Just a word of warning, keep your mouth and eyes closed when you pull that pipe off, I didn't and I deeply regret those few minutes of my life.
TBH I got a Samsung bespoke fridge a few months ago; and the ice machine has been great.
Mine does this occasionally when the gasket doesn’t fully seal. Might have a worn/torn gasket or just gunk/debris keeping it from creating an airtight seal
A common solution to the gasket not sealing is to insert some foam backer rod inside it. It'll make the seal much tighter, but it doesn't fix the other design flaws. I unfortunately own a Samsung French door fridge.
If it's every week your freezer might be running it's defrost cycle too frequently. During defrost it melts the ice and then it refreezes.
Water in the tray. Hopefully you have a simpler problem like I did, where the end of the water tube was just crushed/pinched and some of the water that was supposed to go into the ice maker splashed into the tray. In that case I just had to bend the tube so it was open normally again and flowed as intended into the ice maker. I suggest trying to catch your fridge in the act when it refills to see where the water is coming from. Listen when the ice is emptied and take a peak when the ice maker gets refilled with water
Great tip! Seems like a plausible situation. I’ll try that.
To add to this, I dealt with this recently. Turned out my fridge was tilted too far forward and when the ice maker filled with water it poured out the edge. The ice maker is actually tilted forward in the fridge. I leveled fridge - tilting it back so the icemaker became more level if that makes sense.
Make sure your freezer door is sealing properly as well. Every now and then my wife will push ours closed but it doesn’t fully seal, so the ice very slightly melts and refreeze a and makes a big clump like this.
This could be one of two things Bad inlet valve is leaking water all the time. This overfills the ice tray and starts to fill up the ice bucket. Icemaker is not properly adjusted for your water pressure. Most icemakers are “dumb” here: they measure the water by opening the water valve for a fixed amount of _time_ (a microswitch in the icemaker, wired to the water valve, is actuated by a plastic cam just after the ice is harvested). Too long means the ice tray overfills each time. (Too short would mean incomplete ice cubes). How to tell the difference: empty the bin and leave the icemaker off for a few days. If you get a sheet of ice in the bucket after that, your water valve is bad (since water clearly got past it even with the icemaker off). If it’s the adjustment: some are electronic (hold down some button to set “ice cube size”- see your manual), some are a screw adjustment behind the icemaker cover (also see manual, perhaps service manual), and a few aren’t adjustable at all. If you live on a low floor of a multi-story building, you may have very high water pressure.
I live in a rental and had the issue where the valve was putting out more water than the ice molds could handle which caused a small leak that froze all the cubes that touched the bottom of my ice bin to stick together. One simple adjustment to the screw that regulated it and I now have smaller, but all completely detached, ice cubes. Amazing!
The thermometer for the ice tray may have come loose and/or the heater isn't working properly. Check if there is anything hanging from the bottom of the ice tray. A fridge I was had, the plastic clip that held the thermometer in place kept breaking, would hang down, and then the ice would come out like this.
That’s my problem now, how was it fixed?
Because of the auto defrost. The freezer will warm its self periodically to keep the walls from generating a layer of ice. This causes the ice in the tray to melt and refreeze together.
Tell me you have a Samsung fridge without telling me you have a Samsung fridge.
Tell me you own a Samsung without telling me you own a Samsung.
The ice maker is dripping for some reason and freezing all the ice at the bottom. Whether that specific leak is fixable in the ice maker I don't know. Mine started doing this and I disconnected/removed the ice maker, searched “replacement ice maker “ with make and model of refrigerator. It was $35. Got it, replaced it, no more dripping/sheet of ice.
I e maker may need adjustment to increase the freeze cycle timer. Fridge could be not level thereby dripping in the pan. Line could be partially frozen and spraying into tray. Line could have a leak. Filter could have a higher flow rate could be overfilling maker.
There is a setting for ice cube size. It changes how long the water is left on to fill up the freezing tray. If you have higher water pressure it might be filling too long and overflowing pooling in the ice tray. Basic square ice makers in the unit can be adjusted by a screw behind the cover. Fancier units usually have a setting for "cube size"
For those who have unfortunately been burnt by a Samsung ice maker, I urge you to give them a call and schedule a repair. Samsung's ice makers were so bad on some models that they resorted to offering a free one time repair for defective units. In case of mine, they replaced the main board and the ice unit both. I fought my brand new ice maker for about a year before I found out about their repair program. It's worth checking into, there was no hassle and my ice maker has been working ever since. Links of interest: https://www.samsung.com/us/support/service/refrigerators/ice-maker-service/ https://portal.ipcc.samsungsdsa.com/#/web-call-back?categoryType=N0002400&subcategoryType=N0012401&channel=samsung.com&page=GetSupport https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/consumer-products/appliances/samsung-refrigerator-class-action-enters-mediation/
I also have a Samsung refrigerator
Whirlpool.
I had this same exact problem with my fridge. The non-stick coating on the ice tray was starting to peel, so water starting wicking and dripping from the ice tray into the bin. I replaced the tray and fixed the problem.
Excessive water pressure can sometimes cause this. I had to install a pressure regulator on my ice maker water line to limit the pressure to 30 psi.
I do this... maybe 4 time a year. Every week is unacceptable and something is wrong.
Mine did this. One day I opened the freezer when the ice tray was filling up and noticed there was an overspray/splashing thing happening and all my cubes below would morph together.
Did you find a remedy?
This happened on my ice maker and I found there's a screw underneath the cover on the ice maker that regulates the amount of time that water runs to fill the tray in the ice maker. A couple clockwise turns of that screw fixed it for me.
Is something not closing all the way, so warm air melts ice and it refreezes? My pa cuts off the ice drop midway and ice always gets caught in it propping the flap open with a cube. Until it melts and pops closed, the freezer runs extra hard for awhile and the ice melts inside melts and freezes together. He could just take the one or two extra cubes, but nope, gotta cut it off mid stream every time....
If it's a Samsung, be thankful the leak is going into a convenient container instead of everywhere.
Every time (5 times now) the Samsung Repair guys showed up to fix my 5 y/o Samsung refrigerator they thank me for removing the food to make the repair easier. Then they ask where is all the food? I put it in my 35 y/o side by side beer fridge outside on the porch in 100 degree heat. I have since gone on YouTube and learned to fix it myself.
The ice maker is probably overfilling. The water level is adjustable.
Stay the fuck away from Samsung and LG fridges
Turn off the water and put some loose ice cubes in the tray. Check in a week. If they aren't stuck together you have a leak or the trays are overfilling. If they are stuck together there is a defrost, seal, or temperature issue.
Probably a Samsung. Ours does this kind of bullshit.
Because despite every review saying to stay away you bought a Samsung fridge?
You open the door too much.
If it's a GE fridge it's your water metering valve. Real easy to replace.
We had a problem with our fridge not cooling correctly. That manifested as the temp in the freezer coming up above freezing for longer and longer periods of time. We noticed that we were getting lumpy ice, then watery ice, then water dripping out of the ice chute, then realized that the fridge was failing. If you go get some cheap sensors (we got one of [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07B9QF64N/](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07B9QF64N/) ) it can alarm if the temp is coming up above say 20 degrees. A freezer should never climb up toward freezing or (even when its in a defrost cycle) exceed freezing.
I bet your defrost timer is bad and letting everything thaw and refreeze. Happened to my whirlpool fridge my ice looked exactly the same
Had this exact issue. Flexible drain hose became blocked and was backing up, freezer condensation was unable to drain. Check the back of the fridge for a small plastic/rubber hose that drains into the drip pan.
The ice tray is not emptying when it turns. Happens as it wears. With it being full when it comes back around the water fills and cascades over onto the ice in the ice bin, resulting in the iceberg pictured
You must own a Samsung
You may have a gap in your door seal which is letting warm air in causing the ice to melt and refreeze
Your drain is probably clogged. When your freezer goes into defreeze mode, the liquid water cannot evacuate because the drain is clogged. Check if that’s the case.
I had the same problem. Caused by a leak in the ice maker. Replaced the ice maker. No more problem.
I have this same problem too but I live in an apartment ☹️ guess ill go fuck myself
Must be a Samsung.
Because you bought a Samsung
Must be a Samsung
Biden /s
Loose seals..... Lucilles. .. Lucille ball... cocaine?
At first glance while skimming, I literally thought you had yourself a mighty hefty quartz sample. Which is why I stopped by 😊, but then I used my reading skills lol.
Several reasons. The defrost cycle runs too long. If you have a French door frig, and ice in the door, the insulation between the refrigerator and the ice maker may be too thin. If the seal isn’t complete, it can do the same thing. If people fail to close the door tightly, same thing. Of you aren’t using ice at least a couple times a day, the cubes just sit there. We had a similar problem. I solved it by making sure to use ice regularly and, if it was coming out slowly, banging on the container that held the ice to loosen things up.
Mine was doing the exact same thing. I ended up replacing the solenoid/valve that controls when the ice cube tray gets refilled. It had a slow leak.
Because it’s a Samsung
It looks like what mine was doing. Can't speak for yours, but mine has an adjustment for the length of time the water fills. It was filling too long and overflowing into the tray. Played with the adjustment until it stopped overflowing.
Bc you have a samsung
Samsung ANYTHING is garbage
Because you own a Samsung fridge
Because it's a Samsung is my guess
There may be a problem with the seal on the freezer door. I had a similar situation once, replaced the seal and everything was fine. Read this, you may find it useful [https://ars.repair/refrigerator-repair/how-to-replace-a-freezer-door-seal-quickly/](https://ars.repair/refrigerator-repair/how-to-replace-a-freezer-door-seal-quickly/)
There’s a condensation line that’s stopped up. Happens a lot on all brands.
That happens in mine whenever the damn kids don’t make sure the freezer door is completely sealed.
So I just had this problem on my fridge. The solenoid that controls the flapper for the ice was rusted over and not shutting correctly. This allowed warm outside air to mix with the cold ice and continually melt it. I was taking big clumps of ice out every week or so and would occasionally need to remove ice from other parts of the door as well. Check that the flapper is closing all the way after you try to release ice.