The short answer
Water on the floor at an AGlucky BCD cabinet is a plumbing question first and a refrigeration question second, and where the water sits tells you which. Every refrigerator makes water on purpose — defrost meltwater has to go somewhere, and there is a drain and a tray to take it. A leak is almost always that path blocked or a supply line that has let go, and the two look nothing alike once you know where to look. The table below lists two models for this family, and they are close enough that the fault behaves the same way across all of them; what differs between them is parts rather than diagnosis.
Where the water is telling you to look
- A pool under the crisper drawers inside the cabinet — Meltwater that never reached the drain and ran forward instead.
- Water on the floor at the front, appearing after the inside pool — The same fault, one stage later, once the cabinet floor has filled.
- Water at the back near the wall, sometimes with the machine idle — The supply line, the inlet valve or an overflowing tray, and none of those is a defrost problem.
- A sheet of ice under the freezer basket — The drain is frozen rather than merely blocked, so the water freezes where it stands.
- NEAR MISS — beads of water on the seals in hot, humid weather — Condensation on cold surfaces is normal in that weather and is not a leak at all.
Causes, most likely first on the BCD family
- A cracked or displaced drain pan — The pan lives under the cabinet where it is knocked during every move, and a cracked pan drips exactly where the floor is hardest to see. The two models of the BCD family share this construction, so what ranks first on one of them ranks first on all of them.
- A blocked or frozen defrost drain — It is a narrow passage at the coldest point of the machine, carrying water that arrives with debris in it, so it is the part of the water path most likely to close up — and it does so gradually.
- Door seals letting warm air in — Warm, moist air condensing on cold surfaces produces standing water without anything having failed, and a seal that has taken a set no longer grips in the corners.
- The ice maker fill tube or its mould overflowing — A fill that overshoots or a tube that has iced and split puts water into the freezer floor rather than into the mould, and it only leaks when the cabinet calls for ice.
Check in this order on these models, and why
- Look underneath at the pan with a torch — Done alongside the supply check because both live in the same place.
- Find where the water sits inside and work back to the drain outlet — First, because water inside the cabinet nearly always means this and nothing else.
- Close the door on a sheet of paper at several points and see if it pulls free — Free, fast, and it explains water that appears only in warm weather.
Models in the BCD family
Reference| Model number | Family key |
|---|---|
| BCD-70 | aglucky:refrigerator:bcd |
| BCD-87 | aglucky:refrigerator:bcd |
Before you open anything
Safety
Unplug the appliance or switch off its breaker before removing any panel — a capacitor can hold a charge after the power is off. Water and a powered appliance together are the hazard here: switch the machine off at the breaker before you kneel in a wet area or reach behind the cabinet, and dry the floor first. Close the water shut-off valve before undoing any fitting, and never stand a cabinet back on a wet floor covering that has started to lift.
The line between an owner check and a service call
Call a technician if the drain has been cleared and the water returns, or the moment the leak proves to be on the supply side rather than the defrost side. Call at once if water is reaching an outlet, a floor void or a room below. The appliance repair is rarely the expensive part of a refrigerator leak; what the water reached while nobody knew almost always is.
Other problems covered for this family
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