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Water around the Alpicool B refrigerator is nearly always the cabinet's own condensate arriving somewhere it should not, rather than a pipe failing. The model record for this family is a single code, B22, so everything below applies to one build rather than to a range of them. The first job is deciding whether the water is coming from inside, from the drain path or off a cold outside surface, because those three have nothing in common but the puddle.
The observables on these models
- A puddle at the front, on the floor — Clear water, arriving slowly, usually worse in warm or damp weather.
- Water standing inside, in the bottom of the cabinet — It has been made where it should be and has failed to leave.
- A soaked base or a wet mat under the cabinet — Often the first sign, and often mistaken for a spill.
- NEAR MISS — the water is warm or soapy — That is not this appliance. Check what is above and beside it before assuming the cabinet made the puddle.
Ranked causes for these models
- The condensate path, blocked or displaced — First. Defrost water is normal and leaving by the drain is how it is supposed to end. Block that route with debris, or shift the tray that catches it, and the water simply takes the next best path — over the lip and onto the floor. The record holds only B22, so this check is the whole of the family's exposure to that cause.
- A seal that is letting damp air in — Second. Warm air carries water, and the moment it meets a cold surface it puts that water down. A seal that does not grip turns the cabinet into a condensing machine: ice inside where the air lands, and a puddle outside when it melts.
- Condensation on the outside, which is not a leak at all — Last. A cold surface in a warm damp room collects water out of the air, and there is nothing wrong with a machine that does it. The distinction is easy: condensation is spread evenly over the outside panels, while a leak arrives at one point and comes from within.
- Body: With one code recorded there is no older or newer build here to tell apart. Every code in this family has to put its defrost water somewhere, and that path is both the most common place for it to go wrong and the only one you can inspect without tools, so it leads regardless of which model is in front of you.
The order to work in
- Look for water standing inside before you look outside — Water pooled in the bottom of the cabinet says the drain, not the seal. Warm water will clear most blockages; nothing rigid should ever go down that tube. On B22 that is the whole of this step.
- Run a paper strip round the whole seal — Test every side, not just the one nearest the puddle. The loose section is almost always directly above the wet patch on the floor.
- Body: The record holds one code for this family, so the order below is not a model matrix — it is the order in which these causes can be eliminated on the machine in front of you, cheapest and least invasive first.
Before any panel comes off
Safety
Unplug the cabinet or switch off its breaker before you put a hand behind it; a capacitor can hold a charge after the power is off. Clear a blocked drain with warm water rather than with wire — the tube is soft and the plate above it is thin. If water has reached the supply socket, leave the circuit off until it has dried out completely.
Models this page covers — The one model code recorded for this family.
Reference| Model number | Family key |
|---|---|
| B22 | alpicool:refrigerator:b |
Where owner work stops
Everything above the tray is owner work. It becomes a service call when the drain will not clear with warm water, when the tray itself is cracked, or when water is appearing with the cabinet switched off and dry inside, because that last combination is a supply line rather than condensate. Do not leave a leak running into a floor you cannot see: water damage outlasts the appliance fault that caused it.
Other faults covered for this family
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