Will try to fix the leaking fridge on my own

Makes me feel better when I fix something on my own.

@lovebuglena You are right.

Yeah. Plus, I like it when I can fix something myself.

@lovebuglena A lot of money spared.

Doesn't seem like it needs to be defrosted.

@kobesbuddy Oh. Did not know that. Inside the freezer I do not see any ice or water.

@lovebuglena The ice could be formed inside the walls of your refrigerator. It's not visible.

The solution for the time being was to turn off the water supply to the fridge. We do not use the ice maker or drink water from the fridge, as the water filter is old, so that's ok. However, time to update to a new fridge as per my mom. I'd love to get one before the Presidents Day sale is over but hard to find a fridge that fits under the darn kitchen cabinet. If we remove the cabinet then no issues but then we lose storage space. I managed to find one fridge that fits but width is narrower than we want.

@LindaOHio I want a side-by-side fridge. GE preferably. Maybe Samsung. Those don't have our height. We will have to either take off the cabinet or just remove the cabinet doors to fit it. We have nowhere else to put it but where the current one is. I did find a French doors Samsung in our height, which I didn't really want but that one was too narrow anyway.

@lovebuglena We made the fridge area into a big cabinet and now have the fridge out on the floor. The new fridges are much too large to fit into the space that we had. Good luck finding one to fit.

After finally moving the fridge yesterday to look behind it, which should have been done days ago, I noticed water leaking from the water filter and the copper tubing. My dad told me to go to the bathroom and turn off the water supply to the fridge and that stopped the leaking. Seems like that is the only issue because so far I see no water anywhere. Wish I had done that as soon as we saw water around the fridge. Would've saved us the trouble of constantly cleaning up the water from the floor. And it wouldn't have damaged the strip on the bottom of the kitchen cabinet. It kinda came off on one side. I hope the water did no other damage anywhere.

@porwest Leak was coming from the water filter and the copper tubing next to it. Since the water supply was turned off no more leak. However, my mom wants to replace the fridge. It is from the 90s. The freezer door has to be lifted to close it. The fridge door doesn't always close all the way. Time for an upgrade. And she wants to do it now while there is a Presidents Day sale. But she is not participating in the choosing. She said I pick and buy and she will reimburse. She said I gotta spend under $2k. I am looking for side-by-side fridge. GE preferably but perhaps Samsung is an option. Can't find any that fit under our kitchen cabinet. The darn cabinet has to be removed for fridge to fit, which I don't want to do but no choice. Also, if I get the fridge now (using Home Depot) fridge won't be available till March, end of April or beginning of May.

@lovebuglena Now you just have to find the source of the leak.

@lovebuglena The good thing is we get the skills to repair.

If all we had to do in the end to stop the leaking was turn off the water supply I am glad we didn't try to hire a professional.

Gonna be hard choosing one. I want GE. Can't really find any that fits under the upper kitchen cabinet with the right width. But if we remove the cabinet and I choose any height there are many options and hard to figure out which to go with. Some are pretty similar. It was much easier choosing the dryer.

@lovebuglena Yes, I can imagine. Well hopefully you ll make he right choice.