#CHEST FREEZER LEAKING WATER HOW TO#

Thanks all for your detailed answers, I very much appreciate the time you are alloting me and my issue. Make sure you insulat the whole base from edge to edge and seal the joints with water proof paint otherwise moisture will just track inside the joints and expand, seperating the base from the repair. If you do not feel upto the task of stripping the isulation from the base then I suggest you dry the base as much as possible and then seal it from the new insulation with paint. The water will always log inside it an it will always conduct the heat. Just reread your post again and you friends advice is not bad advice but I would suggest you do the repair by removeing the old insulation first. Thanks for your prompt help on this cool issue! Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.

#CHEST FREEZER LEAKING WATER HOW TO#

is my friend's advice on putting a pink urethane board under the unit a good advice) or if we need to purchase a new unit, how to avoid loosing our food while we resurface the floating wood floor (could take 3 days in all) as it is summer out here and hence we do not have the flexibility of putting the food outside while we fix the floor issue. Please advise me if you have a long term solution ( i.e. Six years is a fair life for a freezer so if you do not mind the effort the repair will extend the life. I then used to seal the base with a thin sheet of aluminium or galvanised steel but this was an added extra because it was a chargable job. place the new insulation in and seal it in with expanding foam and then seal the whole lot in the paint again. Then I would recomend you coat it with bitchumun (spelling) type waterproof paint. Dig it all out make sure you do not damage the inside lining of the freezer. remove all the base insulation, it is normally sealed with aluminium foil. If you attempt to repair it yourself ensure you dry it a much as possible. I have repaired them before now but in the UK the cost of a new freezer is less than the labour charges on the repair. I have seen this problem countless times before and it is due to a break down in the insulation. Thanks for your prompt help on this cool issue!Īny suggestions would be very much appreciated. In any case, we appear to be up to the possibility of having to buy a new unit. I then browsed through the web and I gathered that the problem might have occurred when we completely unfroze the unit.water sort of penetrated the urethane isolation hence favoring induction and the heavy condensation we are now experiencing.

That could prolong life of the unit for up to 10 years. After this water started accumulating ( six months after the above described procedure), I spoke with a friend that works at a Sears store ( not the store I bought the unit from ) and he told me that induction occurred and in order to prolong the life of the unit, I needed to put in the center part of the unit a piece of pink insulating foam to recreate the insulation as well as wood strips under it all.

We respected the minimum 2' clearance on the back but could not maintain the 3 inches on the sides. We reinstalled it on the floating floor without the 2圆's.

Before moving the unit to re-surface the floor, we put the food outside (very cold winters out here) and let the unit completely unfreeze for a few days and cleaned the interior completely. All was dry under the unit, the carped and bottom of unit were in perfect condition. It was resting on 3 2圆' wood pieces on a carpet floor up to last February at which moment we renovated that part of our basement.

At first, we thought the kids had dropped something but we soon realized that the unit is condensing water at a fast pace. Recently our whirlpool 22 cubic feet chest freezer has caused large amounts of water to accumulate on our floating wood floor.

Chest freezer leaking water