The short answer
Water in a Kegco draught cabinet usually comes from the beer side or from condensation, not from the refrigeration: a drip tray that has filled, a fitting weeping, or moisture condensing on cold lines and running down into the base. Check the tray and the fittings before anything else. Because these hold their contents for weeks rather than days, a small error shows up as a slow drift rather than an obvious fault.
What you observe
- Water on the base under the lines — Condensation running down cold lines and fittings.
- A fitting that is wet to the touch — A weeping connection rather than a refrigeration leak.
- NEAR MISS — water and warm beer — Read the page for a cabinet that will not cool.
Causes, most likely first on a Kegco refrigerator
- Condensation from humid air — Id: condensation — Warm damp air meeting a cold surface leaves water behind. In a humid room that happens every day, and it is physics rather than a fault in the appliance. It ranks first here because it is both the commonest finding on this kind of unit and the cheapest one to rule out. It moves up a place here because long storage hides a slow drift: nothing looks wrong until the contents say otherwise.
- Drip tray, tap or a weeping fitting — Id: tapdrip — Second: most of the liquid in the base of a draught cabinet comes from the beer side: a tray that has filled, a tap that drips between pours, or a fitting that has never been fully seated. First on a draught cabinet: it is the commonest source and the easiest to confirm — empty the tray and watch.
- Door not sealing, so humid air keeps coming in — Id: doorseal — Third: every bit of warm air that slips past the seal arrives carrying moisture, and that moisture is the water on your floor. The seal is the cause of the water, not just a route for it.
- Drain hole in the compartment blocked — Id: blockedhole — Fourth, and less common: all the condensate a small unit makes leaves through one hole at the back of the compartment. Block that hole with a label, a crumb or a plug of ice and the water has to go forward instead.
Check in this order, and why
- Note whether it happens only in humid weather — That timing identifies condensation without any other test. First because it is the top-ranked cause above and costs nothing.
- Empty the drip tray and watch what refills it — It separates a tray overflow from anything mechanical. Second because its cause ranks second above.
- Close the door on a strip of paper and pull — It should drag everywhere; where it slides free is where the moisture comes in. Third because its cause ranks third above.
What an owner can safely check
- Empty the drip tray and watch what refills it — A tray overflow and a weeping fitting look identical until you do this.
Tools: clothAbout 10 min
- Log the reading morning and evening for two days — A drift is only visible against its own history, never in one glance.
Tools: thermometerAbout 20 min
- Check the door seal and the base drain hole — Condensation has to leave somewhere, and a blocked hole keeps it in the base.
About 15 min
- STOP HERE if the next step is a panel off with the power on — That is where owner checks end and a service call begins.
Before you open anything
Safety
Water and electricity share this cabinet: switch it off at the breaker before mopping anything behind or underneath it, and never reach behind a wet panel with the power on. Close the supply valve before touching any water fitting. Clear a frozen drain with warm water only — never with a sharp tool, which will puncture the liner and turn a free fix into a new cabinet.
When to call a technician
Call for a leak that survives an emptied tray, dried fittings and a cleared drain hole. Deal with a weeping gas or beer fitting the same day, because a line that drips into a cold cabinet grows mould before it grows a bill. Draught parts are widely stocked and standard; the cabinet's refrigeration parts are ordered against the model on the rating plate.
Nearest pages of this class
What this page does not cover
This page covers Kegco refrigerators as a class, not one family or model line. Where a family- or model-specific page exists for your unit, that page is the more specific answer. Not here: drain routing diagrams, part numbers and fitting sizes. It is kegerators and draught cabinets: a cooled box with a tower or a tap through the door, and a gas bottle inside.
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