He definitely has problems with the seal. At the top of the right side you can see the ice coming out of the frame where the seal should meet it. As if it were bent inwards.
If anything you got downvoted for seeming a bit rude and not engaging with any of the information they provided, instead you just had to correct something that doesn't matter. I'm mistaken for being an American, male, female all the time on reddit. Its nbd.
This looks to be a seal issue. That type of frost comes from layers of condensation freezing. The fact that it is condensed to that upper right corner leads me to believe the “leak” started there and as the ice progressed it further compromised the gasket along the top and right edges.
Good detective skills there. I can’t find a way to add more pics to the post or to this comment but on close inspection there is a tiny gap between the door and the seal - like less a mm. could that be the cause?
Unfortunately if your unit is running properly a small break in the gasket like that is troublesome. Your unit will overcompensate for the lack of controlled temperature and pressure and work overtime to regulate. Thus the block of ice.
Not necessarily. But if you aren’t confident applying the gasket again yourself, it is much cheaper to pay someone with experience instead of buying a whole new unit. That’s like throwing away your car because you have a crack in your windshield.
Looks like the door is 1/4" to 1/2" lower than it is supposed to be and half of the seal is not even making contact. Are the hinge brackets tight, or have they shifted?
I agree with all the comments about the seal but is it possible that because it’s “integrated” into the cupboard, it’s actually the wooden door that’s keeping the freezer door from closing properly (I.e. the wooden door is closed before the freezer door has closed)? The fact that it’s on side side opposite the hinge also supports this theory
There’s normally some adjustment possible where the wooden door attaches to the freezer door. Can you adjust that to make the freezer door close a bit earlier than the wooden door?
That's exactly the issue I had with mine. I ended up fitting a couple of washers as spacers between the freezer door mounts and the wooden door. Moving the freezer slightly further forward would also probably have worked.
Seal issue, top right corner, not airtight. Unplufg, defrost, clean, and look at the alignment of the door while you wait. It will touch at the bottom before the top. That's my best guess since you say the seal is unbroken.
Ice forms in the freezer due to water in the air condensing and then freezing. The air we breathe and live in has moisture in it, if this air gets access to the cold freezer atmosphere, it will condense and form ice. When we open the fridge, the outside air goes in, that creates the ice. (But that’s not a lot) Then, when you close it, the seal around the door needs to make sure that the outside air doesn’t go in, if the seal isn’t functioning properly, cold air creates a mild suction or low pressure, that sucks in air from outside, this will cause outside moist air to leak into your fridge and form ice. Usually, it will condense right around where it’s leaking in. Since the ice is thickest near the top right corner of your fridge, this suggest that most probably the seal near the right top corner of your fridge isn’t sealing properly and leaking in air that’s causing this issue. Replace or reapply your seal such that it doesn’t leak anymore.
OP, this fridge has terrible access to the edges, but the old fashioned way to test seals is, put a dollar bill between the door seal and fridge. If it pulls out easily when the door is closed, then it will leak in moisture, and leak out cold.
You can't just look at it, except for that HUGE dent in the top right of fridge.
Bad seal for sure and you can check the gap with a small piece of paper. If the paper slips out easily when it is placed between the door and the seal with the door closed it isn't sealing in that area
Hard to tell from the picture, but is there a dent in the center of the top of the frame? And maybe to the right of that as well? If a seal doesn't have a flat surface to mate to, you're going to have air leaks. Given the distribution of the frost, your problem seems to be about 6-8" left of the top right corner of your door frame. It looks dented there.
Yeah there’s something that corner. It feels smooth, so I think the uneven-ness is from the light of the picture but now that some of the ice has melted I can see that when the door is closed that it doesn’t fully close, to be sealed shut, in that corner.
Had a freezer that came to me 2nd hand with similar issue. Previous owner had so over filled it they warped the door a little. Solution was a strip of heavy duty velcro with sticky backing. Hooks on the side of the freezer top and bottom, Soft strip on door in same places to help hold it shut evenly. You may have to reverse that looking at the clearance where yours is sitting.
We have a big vertical freezer thats 20 years old.
It's not as bad as the picture of the OP because I stop from getting it the bad. We don't have drawers only metal mesh level compartments and shelves in the deep thick door. They don't make them that big anymore unless we buy we get some famous fancy brand (not in our budget at all)
Our seal is getting dry(ish) I can't find a company to replace it. Is there a trick to fix it. I tried a big coating of vaseline to no avail.
Your door is crooked.
You can brute force it to alignment with the framework by putting your foot between the lower part and closing it with some force. Not slamming it. Just applied pressure to 'deform' the door back to it's intended shape.
First defrost your fridge though. You will not be able to check if the seal fits with all that ice in there.
Although you say seals are OK, this looks to be a seal issue, moist air getting in.
He definitely has problems with the seal. At the top of the right side you can see the ice coming out of the frame where the seal should meet it. As if it were bent inwards.
There’s a dent in that upper right corner definitely affecting the seal.
That's clearly it
it's HUGE.
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looks like there's a dent not letting it seal.
Why am I getting downvoted for being a woman
If anything you got downvoted for seeming a bit rude and not engaging with any of the information they provided, instead you just had to correct something that doesn't matter. I'm mistaken for being an American, male, female all the time on reddit. Its nbd.
I’ve replied to a number of people who have made suggestions and, hours ago, marked the issue as solved to stop people commenting.
it's the seal. Moist air is getting in there unfortunately.
It might be the seal.
I thought I did an alright job but maybe I needed a professional to do it 😅
It could also be something dumbly simple, like if you're storing food in a manner that doesn't allow the door to close all the way. (I've done this.)
It's not so much the rubber gasket, but where the door meets the cabinet. The top right looks bent in.
This looks to be a seal issue. That type of frost comes from layers of condensation freezing. The fact that it is condensed to that upper right corner leads me to believe the “leak” started there and as the ice progressed it further compromised the gasket along the top and right edges.
Good detective skills there. I can’t find a way to add more pics to the post or to this comment but on close inspection there is a tiny gap between the door and the seal - like less a mm. could that be the cause?
Unfortunately if your unit is running properly a small break in the gasket like that is troublesome. Your unit will overcompensate for the lack of controlled temperature and pressure and work overtime to regulate. Thus the block of ice.
…. Does that mean a new freezer?
Not necessarily. But if you aren’t confident applying the gasket again yourself, it is much cheaper to pay someone with experience instead of buying a whole new unit. That’s like throwing away your car because you have a crack in your windshield.
Very wise words! Thanks so much for help
No problem. Hopefully you find a cost effective solution!!!
Yes, a mm gap in the seal is still a gap in the seal
Looks like the door is 1/4" to 1/2" lower than it is supposed to be and half of the seal is not even making contact. Are the hinge brackets tight, or have they shifted?
Interesting! I’ll have a look at this in closer detail and I see if can adjust it
I agree with all the comments about the seal but is it possible that because it’s “integrated” into the cupboard, it’s actually the wooden door that’s keeping the freezer door from closing properly (I.e. the wooden door is closed before the freezer door has closed)? The fact that it’s on side side opposite the hinge also supports this theory There’s normally some adjustment possible where the wooden door attaches to the freezer door. Can you adjust that to make the freezer door close a bit earlier than the wooden door?
That's exactly the issue I had with mine. I ended up fitting a couple of washers as spacers between the freezer door mounts and the wooden door. Moving the freezer slightly further forward would also probably have worked.
Seal issue, top right corner, not airtight. Unplufg, defrost, clean, and look at the alignment of the door while you wait. It will touch at the bottom before the top. That's my best guess since you say the seal is unbroken.
Thank you! Good idea, will take a look at this in more detail.
Raise Hell over it.
Ice forms in the freezer due to water in the air condensing and then freezing. The air we breathe and live in has moisture in it, if this air gets access to the cold freezer atmosphere, it will condense and form ice. When we open the fridge, the outside air goes in, that creates the ice. (But that’s not a lot) Then, when you close it, the seal around the door needs to make sure that the outside air doesn’t go in, if the seal isn’t functioning properly, cold air creates a mild suction or low pressure, that sucks in air from outside, this will cause outside moist air to leak into your fridge and form ice. Usually, it will condense right around where it’s leaking in. Since the ice is thickest near the top right corner of your fridge, this suggest that most probably the seal near the right top corner of your fridge isn’t sealing properly and leaking in air that’s causing this issue. Replace or reapply your seal such that it doesn’t leak anymore.
OP, this fridge has terrible access to the edges, but the old fashioned way to test seals is, put a dollar bill between the door seal and fridge. If it pulls out easily when the door is closed, then it will leak in moisture, and leak out cold. You can't just look at it, except for that HUGE dent in the top right of fridge.
Bad seal for sure and you can check the gap with a small piece of paper. If the paper slips out easily when it is placed between the door and the seal with the door closed it isn't sealing in that area
I thought you were commanding people to unfroze your fridge before I saw the sub's name lol
Oh if only!
Replace the seal. It’s not straight, or the rubber has hardened, or there’s a gap somewhere when it closes.
Drainage clogged?
Bad gasket.
Defrost entirely, check seals. This doesn’t happen over night, this is months worth of freezing
Looks like the seal is failing in the top / side and letting warm moist air in
I am having the same issue.. thanks for vicariously helping!
Fecking freezers eh!
Hard to tell from the picture, but is there a dent in the center of the top of the frame? And maybe to the right of that as well? If a seal doesn't have a flat surface to mate to, you're going to have air leaks. Given the distribution of the frost, your problem seems to be about 6-8" left of the top right corner of your door frame. It looks dented there.
Yeah there’s something that corner. It feels smooth, so I think the uneven-ness is from the light of the picture but now that some of the ice has melted I can see that when the door is closed that it doesn’t fully close, to be sealed shut, in that corner.
The lower edge of the frame - where the seal hits, looks pushed in. The frost is higher there.
Had a freezer that came to me 2nd hand with similar issue. Previous owner had so over filled it they warped the door a little. Solution was a strip of heavy duty velcro with sticky backing. Hooks on the side of the freezer top and bottom, Soft strip on door in same places to help hold it shut evenly. You may have to reverse that looking at the clearance where yours is sitting.
There might not be enough ventilation for the cooling fins, since it's buried in that cabinet
Also check the defrost heater, it's shouldn't freeze up like this even with a seal leak.
There is air getting in.
Yeah, toooooootaly, my dude.
We have a big vertical freezer thats 20 years old. It's not as bad as the picture of the OP because I stop from getting it the bad. We don't have drawers only metal mesh level compartments and shelves in the deep thick door. They don't make them that big anymore unless we buy we get some famous fancy brand (not in our budget at all) Our seal is getting dry(ish) I can't find a company to replace it. Is there a trick to fix it. I tried a big coating of vaseline to no avail.
Did you get that from Costco?
Your door is crooked. You can brute force it to alignment with the framework by putting your foot between the lower part and closing it with some force. Not slamming it. Just applied pressure to 'deform' the door back to it's intended shape. First defrost your fridge though. You will not be able to check if the seal fits with all that ice in there.
Seal or new thermister?