The clip to install that came out after this video. Will prevent ice buildup in the drain opening amzn.to/3q8dCgw

This is a permanent solution to the ice build up, so sit tight and enjoy the analysis. The root cause of the problem is ice built up and then clogged up the cold air vent holes and jammed the fan by ice. There are multiple reasons for ice build up: 1. Where did the ice come from? To minimize the ice we need to keep moisture inside to the minimum, which means covering up glasses of water, milk, opened sod cans, soup, cut open water melon, mango, fruits, wet vegetable, raw meat, etc. . The humidity inside the refrigerator is quite low, and so anythings that can be dried up will release moiture and this will form ice, and too much ice will out win the defrost heater short heating cycle (Samsung designed short defrost cycle to achieve the Energy Star) and the net result is a slowly ice build up if too much moisture inside. 2. The other moisture source is the bottom Pantry tray that collected water. You need to pull out the pantry and clean this bottom tray every month or so, or after a spill from trays above. Any liquid spill not cleaned up will ended up as ice inside the fan box -- no magic about this. 3. The bottom drainage hole is clogged up with ice. Once this happened, every degrost cycle will release the water down into the bottom Pantry and pool there. This water then evaporate and form ice inside the fan box eventually. (Hint: to melt the drain hole ice fast, fill up the "pond" above the clogged drain hole with water then place a 15 watts soldering iron hot tip into the water and make sure to keep the hot tip from directly touching the plastic part that can be melted. Add more water if the "pond" is dried up and expose the hot iron tip. The hot water will melt the ice and clear up the drain hole. This method is faster than hair dryer or adding hot water spoon by spoon. You need to keep an eye on this and remove the iron as soon as the hole is cleared. 4. Due to Energy Star regulation, Samsung and others have tried to design their products with low electrical consumption, which means they run the defrost heating cycle in much shorter time. If there is not much ice built up then the short defrost cycle is enough to melt all ice, but if the ice is too much then it ended up winning the battle and jammed up the fan or clogged up the cooling vent holes and the unit cannot get cold. So how do we solve these problems? It is unrealistic to have zero moisture inside the refrigerator, but if we can keep it to the minimum as I pointed out in (1) and (2) above, and with a modification to the design that prevents the drain hole clogged up then the problem will be eliminated permanently. To solve the problem (3), I used a 6 inches long, 3mm diameter copper (or aluminum) wire, wrapped around the black heater pipe (just above the drain hole and running across left to right) 3 turns, and extended the wire down into the drain hole. If you don't have large gauge wire then just use two smaller gauge wires, wrap them on the left and right side of the heater pipe and extend the wires down into the drain hole about 1.5 to 2 inches. This should carry the heat from the back heat pipe down deep into the drain hole and helps to prevent ice building up inside the hole. I used to fix the ice build up issue every year, but after implementing the 3 steps above, it has been running over 2 years and still no problem. My unit is RF266AB. Brian

6 years later and your video is still important! Thank you, I'm fixing mine as we speak!

Thank you so much for posting this! You saved me from what could have been a very costly repair call. I had a lot of ice buildup (the fan was completely encased in ice) behind the cover and the small ice machine. Also very much appreciate the note about keeping the foam backing with the cover removal - it helped me make sure to pull the foam forward from back of fridge. It took a little TLC wiggling it out but in the end was simple. We just plugged everything back in and so far so good!

Huge thank you, Coderman. Your video saved this single mom a service call and bonus was that my teenage daughter was impressed with her mom because we have been dealing with water in the fridge for over a year. The video was very well done.

Thank you so much for this video! We got pretty nervous when we found a 1/2 inch thick sheet of ice under the bottom drawer. This was absolutely perfect, and exactly the problem we were having! The details were right on point!

A quick is solution that worked for me was I unplugged rolled it out in my yard ..poured 5 gal of gas on it and watched it burn ..then bought a GE ...and watch 2500 bucks burn on a 1.5 year old fridge

Thanks for posting this. Took just over an hour, including emptying the fridge, cleaning the inside while it was empty, and putting food back after repair. I did use Brian's wire trick. Time will tell. Thanks again.

This video was exactly what I needed to fix our fridge. Saved me a lot of time, frustration and money. Thank you very much for posting it.

Followed this to a T! And our refrigerator is working great. We waited a week to see the results and it’s great! This man just saved us 200 bucks in repair, if not more. Took hours, between taking everything out, drying the fridge, etc...But now we know. Thanks Coderman!

We got the same exact fridge. I’m going to do work on it this weekend. I always knew it had something to do with the drain hole but I didn’t wanna pay for expensive repair and didn’t wanna mess/break the fridge. Thank you for creating this video. A very big solution for my family. And my food.

Thank you so much. Finally searched for this after our floors started being ruined from water. Perfect explanation and greatly appreciated

Thanks for this video, it helped us get the fridge back to running normally. We had so much ice build up that we couldn't close the bottom tray all the way. It leaked on our floor so badly that we developed water damage on our hardwood floors. It took several hours for us to get all of the ice out, but the fridge is working better than ever now. Saved us hundreds of dollars! Thanks again

This was the fix we were looking for. Had we simply defrosted the problem would have reoccured. Both drain valves on the back had gunk in them and the one was filled with stuff almost like grape skins. When I removed the really plugged one over 20 oz of water shot out of that line. We saved ourselves a service call because of this video.

I can not thank you enough for this video. Simple with great detail and to the point. You saved me big time!

Thank you for taking the time to do this video! One tip for everyone when taking off the panel....I had significant ice buildup and had difficulty prying off the panel as I think a portion of it was attached to the ice. It wouldn’t budge at first so I walked away from it for a bit. When I came back and tried again there was a little more give so I thought to put the hair dryer to it around the edges and try prying again and it came right off. Do be careful with the styrofoam as I broke a small piece off from the bottom corner.

Thank you for this video and THANK YOU to all the people who left additional ideas in the comments! I am currently working on this very issue right now! Just what I want to be dealing with on a nice Saturday! Many thanks!

Thanks so much! had been pulling out my hair, with this problem! Endless mopping up, soggy soggy towels etc! Love this fridge, but this design flaw is a royal pain in the arse! Very grateful!

Perfect instructions. Not drawn out like last one I used. Not my first time to take apart my evil Samsung fridge ... and I'm a 72 year old woman 😊 Thanks so much!

Thank you, yet again, this happened to me the first time a year or so back, and again just this week, I couldn't remember the fix, but remembered your video. On both occasions I haven't had the wire or part to put in, having instead cleaned and defrosted the drain and surrounding area, but it gives me 18 months or so, will try and find the part and have it on hand for the next time.

Best Refrigerator fix video. To the point. Straight forward and easy. This is how all fix it videos should be!

Just wanted to thank you for doing this video. We emptied it and had it open for over 24 hours thinking it was enough time to defrost the ice build up. When we plugged it in we got the 22E code and found very little on the internet about the code. After I removed the back panel we found a large chunk of ice exactly where the fan is located. We removed the ice and used an blow dryer to dry everything out. We put it all back together and after removing the 'demo' mode all is well. Thanks again!!

Great video. Very helpful. My biggest challenge was getting the styrofoam out as it separated from the plastic cover and was frozen in place. I spent a lot of time heating with a hair dryer before it would come out. Overall a successful project. Thanks!

My family and I would like to say thank you. Our fridge had this problem but we had no idea how to fix this. Finding this video was a real life saver! The fridge works now but I'm pretty sure we won't be buying another Samsung to replace it in the future.

I appreciate you posting this video. My husband and I are not handy people but you made it look so easy that we are going to try to address this issue without calling a service repairman. Thank you!

Thank you, thank you and thank you! Exactly what was wrong with our frig, it took us about 45 minutes total and saved a lot of money. My frig was so bad that it had 1/2 " ice under the cool select pantry drawer, it never leaked water because it was freezing. We would never have figured it out on our own.

This is completely awesome!!! Just finished doing this today and now I can cancel my service call. Thanks for the video!!!

You are amazing! Water has spilling out of the fridge for weeks now and I've been dreading researching why fearing I had to buy a new fridge. Going to fix it right now, thanks!!

Thank you SO much. I did this repair last night, and added the copper wire in hopes of a permanent fix.

Thank you CoderMan!! After finding water and 1/4 sheet of ice under my crisper drawer this morning, I cleaned it and began searching the web for what was wrong. Luckily, I found this video which made it easy to follow and very specific enough for even me to disassemble and defrost my frig. My drain did not have as much ice on it as shown here but I melted what I found and put it all back together. I did spray some clorox spray down the drain line after talking to my repair man. So thank you for this video and I will NEVER buy another Samsung product. This is ridiculous and should have never happened!!

I put a copper wire through the drain..hooked it to the heating element and NO MORE problems! I pushed almost 2 feet into the drain hole. I don't know if that much was necessary but it worked! And that's after I paid 2 repairmen to come out who did nothing other than to thaw the ice out with MY blow dryer. Thank you all you guys on KZfaq who told me how to do it! PS I'm a woman...nothing stops me!

Thank you sir, had just this problem with a Samsung french door fridge in a house we just bought a few weeks ago. You saved me a service call and now I won't have a problem doing it when it happens again. Ours is a RF26HFENDSR and the repair is as shown

Your one off video to help others has officially helped me! Saved me $200 Thank you for posting!!

Thanks for the video - superb instructions! I actually let my fridge completely thaw out for about 8 hours, and when I put it all back together the problem re-appeared in a few days. Of course, once I found where the freeze was actually occurring and how well insulated the area is, it makes sense. I think it took about 2-2.5 hours with a hair dryer to completely thaw my drain tube!! I have tried the copper wire fix as mentioned by several others...so far it has been 6 weeks and no recurrence - I am hopeful that will fix it long term for me. Again, thank you for the video - I appreciate the time it takes to put something like this together!

I just did exactly as directed in the video. Exactly. There was very little ice buildup in the small tray. I went ahead and used the hair dryer technique. After about 1/2 hour, I poured a small amount of hot water in the tray and it did not drain. I watched part of another video that talked about the drain tubes in the back and bottom of the refrigerator. When I pulled one of the tubes out, water came gushing out! The drain tube was clogged. I cleaned it, tested it with tap water, put it back, and then poured water in the small tray below the coils where the drain hole is located. All the water drained through the hole! You might want to try that first before going through the process of removing shelves etc. I am just happy to get it back together again. Plus the refrigerator is clean!!! Bonus!

Very useful video. The refrigerator has worked well for the past 12 years and we were about to give up and buy a new one. With this problem solved, we may get a few more years of life out of this. This became a good project for us to tackle on a cold Saturday afternoon. Thanks very much!

A very good tutorial that have save my money from sending my refrigerator for a repair. Thank you. You are the man!!

This was a great walk through! I really appreciated it, saved me so much hassle!

I have the same issue. First time was about 6 months ago, I called a repair guy and $130 later he had defrosted the line and put it back together. It has happened again, I figured I could do it myself and save some money. Great video and very helpful, I'm going to try the copper wire off of the return to add a little heat to the drain. I also heard that fridge leveling could play a part .... the front wheels should not touch the ground, if they do; that slight slope forward may be contributing to slow draining and therefore freezing. I'm going to try that too. Just sharing!

I’m so grateful for this video! And all of your comments! I just had a repair service out here and they don’t even make the parts anymore to fix the drain issue! And if they did have the parts it was gonna be $700 to fix it I’ve already spent about 1000 and repairs so far

You're a hero. Thanks so much for this video. I was able to thaw my very frozen drain, and other frozen interested components, and resolve the leak.

This was so helpful! We had tons of ice back there and a thick sheet of it under the middle drawer (different model than the one in this video). I did the thing with the copper wire, so hopefully that does the trick... because I also broke one of the plastic bits that the screw goes into and it’s not gonna come back out without a lot of force 😬

Our fridge has been leaking since the first day we plugged it in. It’s two years old and still leaking. THANK YOU for this video!

Great video. I will totally empty and leave open 24 hours before trying this rather difficult fix. Good to know that others had this problem.

Great help! This video made it easy to get into the area of the drain without breaking anything. After melting a large chunk of ice in the drain and water dam, the water still didn’t flow. I found another video about cleaning the drain tube under the lower rear service panel. It was clogged. When I removed it for cleaning, the water gushed out. I needed to do both, but the lower rear drain tube was the root of the problem. It now seems wise to check it and clean it periodically to avoid further problems.

Thank you a million bizillion! I really appreciate the time you took to make this video. 😁. I don’t think I could have fixed my refrigerator without it!

This is one option, but there is an easier way. I just had ice build up in my Samsung and began the process of taking the panel off, then discovered that the fridge has a power defrost setting. Hold the power freeze and fridge buttons for 8 seconds, use the fridge button to navigate to power defrost - on mine it’s denoted as rd (for refrigerator defrost, I believe). This will turn the cooling off and heat the coils for 20 minutes before going back to normal. It will beep while it’s in this mode, so don’t worry about that. I did this last night and this morning the fridge is quiet as a kitten.

Thank you very much for this tutorial. We have the exact same fridge and have been experiencing this issue for approximately a year. During that time we simply cleaned up the i and water only to have to repeat it shortly after. I've just done the entire process, including the copper wire trick, and look forward to not having to deal with this again!

Thank you so much for this video! This was exactly what was wrong with my fridge. Hopefully it lasts a while because I really don't feel like buying a new fridge right now.

Coderman, we thank you. We woke up to this and the husband is fixing it using your video. Otherwise we would have had to call a serviceman to help. We purchased all Samsung appliances 12 years ago. After one year the door on the dryer broke and we were told we were to rough on it. We are in our 60's and not rough on anything. Then we had to have a sercieman come in and fix it three times. He told us, "Don't ever buy Sansung. I have had more calls on these." Next, the dishwasher broke after 4 years. We are two people and used it maybe three times a week. Next, when I have the burners on low, the food boils over. Next, the ice make randomly spits out out out of the blue. We did have a leak in the fridge one year ago when we got home after a trip at 1:00 in the mroning. Hardwoods ruined. $6,500.00 to replace them. Oh, the washer has not given us any trouble yet though. Samsung sucks.

Omgggggg thank you so much for this video!!! I thought I was going to need to buy a new fridge! 😭❤️

Just followed your instructions and got the drain line cleared. It happened before and I watched the repairman fix it. He did one additional thing. Took a plastic tube and blew his warm breath thru it and down the drain. I used my mini vacuum hose attachment in the same way and defrosted things quickly. Thanks for an excellent video.

Thank You so so much for this amazingly helpful video. It was super easy to follow, it fixed my ice and water leak collecting below the pantry tray and it saved my marriage! Wife was already screaming at the fridge.

Great video. Followed the instructions and let it completely thaw overnight. Then put everything back together. It is working now and making ice. One word of caution: even using the hair dryer, it took several hours for the ice in the panel to thaw enough for extraction. Be patient when pulling off the panel, or you will have separate pieces of plastic and styrofoam!

In lockdown and my Samsung wasn’t cooling in the fridge section. This was my issue and complete resolution. Great step by step guide made it really easy. Thanks for this

Thanks,these videos are always better than the instructions they include. not sure I want to attempt this repair,but you did a great job showing how

After watching this video and performed your repair 7 months ago I have not had to defrost at all, prior to that it was a monthly battle. Thank-you very much.

Great video. Well Explained. To fix the problem for good you can run a metal strip that wraps around the heating element down the drain. In some cases you may have to renove the factory strip used in order to add a longer thicker strip down the drain 👍

One addition; there is a chance that the wire where the metal extends into the drain is still hot after turning the power off. Don't do what I did and burn yourself. Other than that, you might put a space heater in there along with the hair dryer to speed up melting the ice dam. It can take a while. Great video and thanks for posting.

I can’t begin to thank you enough for this video. We fell for the fancy Samsung smart fridge with the touch screen which is only 3 years old this same exact problem happened and technician wanted $300 just to walk in the door not including parts and service. I followed this video step by step and fridge is working now so thanks for saving me $300.

So so helpful! Thank you for creating this video. This has happened to our Samsung fridge every couple years, so frustrating.

Thanks for the video! Samsung repair quoted me almost $600 to fix this but I thawed my drain today and got the water moving again. I didn’t really have any issues except for ice covering the top screw and probably holding the screw in place as it was in pretty tightly. My hair dryer made quick work of both of those issues. The only other thing was melting the ice in the drain. The tray melted easily enough but I couldn’t see down the drain to see what was going on, but I knew it had to be solid ice. Here, I used a turkey baster with hot tap water. I squirted it directly at the drain hole and then sucked it right back up since the ice probably cooled it down and I didn’t want to refill the tray with water. It only took a couple minutes to hear ice and water fall down the drain tube. I fastened a copper wire to the heating element and ran it an inch or two down the drain. The only thing I did that I didn’t see mentioned was to extend the legs on the front bottom of the refrigerator to tip it backward a bit, directing any dripping water toward the back of the unit instead of straight down (it was sitting level before). Other than the 3-4 hours when I had the unit unplugged with the French doors open to start the thawing, it took me less than 90 minutes to make sure the bottom drain wasn’t clogged and do everything else. I consider myself a pretty handy 57-y/o woman, but it really wasn’t difficult at all.

Lol either my phone heard me or this was a coincidence. My Samsung literally is having this issue right now and this just popped out when I went to you tube 🤣 Definitely will be doing this now. Thank you

Just did this repair on my Samsung unit. Mine is just a little different it doesn't have a water dispenser. I have no water line connected to mine and I still managed to get this problem. There was a half an inch thick layer of ice under my pantry door that was stopping it from opening. I had no idea this problems were related. I noticed the hole where the drain is still had water accumulated after blow drying for about 20 minutes. I had to remove the thick layer of ice to finally solve this problem. Thanks a million.

Very helpful, well done video. Just finished doing this repair. Just a note: after using hair dryer for 30-40 minutes, the ice melted off the coils, but the drain was still clogged. Poured small amounts of almost boiling water down drain hole and after about 10 times, the little chunk of ice fell out into the evaporation tray. If you don't make sure the drain is open all the way to the evaporation tray, you'll probably end up doing this every week or so. Thanks again for posting this very helpful video....

Nice job on your video. I had horrific icing going on in mine and I moved the location of the temperature sensor after doing some research. It is located near those cooling fins and the defrost element assembly. That helped, but icing up seems to be something we might have to live with if we have a Samsung fridge in this family of models with french doors.

thanks brother! very helpful. after almost 9 years our's just started doing this. I used a copper ground romex wire.

Although my fridge is a bit different than yours, your video assisted me in taking the back panel off and getting to my thermostat. Thanks for your help!

Thank you - this video gave me a nice overview on what I needed to do with my Samsung French Door fridge. Instead of hair dryer, I used a squirt bottle to pour hot water from the tap and that made quick work of the ice. I think the trick is to flush hot water down that little drain hole until it’s unclogged entirely- you will hear water rushing down to the drain pan. Just be super careful while removing that panel - mine was frozen shut at the bottom, and I can’t remove it until the hot water melted the ice at the bottom. Thank you and good luck everyone!

awesome, thanks so much -- this has been such a pain in the butt!!

Excellent! Combined the posts from Coderman and Brian Dang. Just got it back together and running. We'll see if there are any other issues as a result of the significant ice buildup. I would just add that this is a good opportunity to open the lower back panel to check the drain hose and vacuum the coils.

Thanks man followed your instructions got it done easily. It’s been 8 years so I don’t expect this fridge to last another 8 so I should not have to do this again.

Very well explained. The "press the two clips together" to remove the bin holder was different on mine and I needed flathead screwdrivers to push then in and a second person to lift up. Directions were great! Thank you

WONDERFUL video - You really helped my daughter, who 2 years ago bought a Samsung "french door" fridge, has otherwise done NOTHING wrong to it, yet is now genuinely struggling with this insanely-frustrating phenomenon... What you DIDN'T explain is this: WHY is this even HAPPENING? and HOW can she PREVENT this from occurring ever again ?

Thanks for the video. Same problem here, ice was built up in the aluminum drain tray, but in my case that was only a SYMPTOM of the problem. The actual problem was a clogged rubber nipple in the bottom section of drain tube behind the refrigerator (near the compressor). Clogged up with some brown scaly crud which caused water to back up all the way up the drain tube where it overflowed back into the refrigerator regardless of whether it was froze up or not. I sliced off a bit of the end of the rubber nipple to expand the opening. Hopefully it won’t clog up again….

Informative and clear. Great safety on using the proprer screws as well as not forcing the plastic. 10/10, even if you didn't send it and break that plastic

OMg!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! This started when we first bought the fridge, and Samsung came out and fixed it for free bc it was under warrantee. We thought it was fixed. It’s 3 years later and it’s a problem again. It’s been driving me nuts and I’ve been taking ice and water out of the bottom of the drawers for the past 3 months! Since COVID, we don’t want anyone in the house. You’re very kind to do this. Great vid, easy explanation, and right to the point! Thanks, again!

I love watching a video on here and knowing immediately that it’s the right one. Outstanding job man. I’ll tackle this one over the weekend. 👊🏻

Thank you so much for posting, I've had my fridge for 4 years and this is now just happening. I had a hell of a time getting the styrofoam back panel removed. For anyone attempting this, be patient once the ice thaws it will be much easier...slow and steady.

Wow!!!! You rock! We've tried to solve our leak problem for 2+ years!!! Couldn't have solved it without this video!! Easy to follow and problem fixed!! We thank u!

Great videos thank you. Panel was hard to get off, but if you pull the styrofoam with the plastic it lessens the chance of breaking the plastic. Worked like a dream. Took about 2 hours start to finish.

You just made me look like a miracle worker to my wife. Thank you for taking the time to create this video. It helped a lot!

Very helpful video. I highly recommend also cleaning out the drain tubes in the back side of the refrigerator at the same time. Easy to do, so don't skip it. Start by removing the cover on the bottom back of the fridge. Gently pull out the drain tubes (mine has 3) and clean them out. Backed up water poured out of mine when I pulled them out. The water was blocked by gunk that was trapped in the funnels on the drain tubes. I enlarged the bottom openings of the funnels to avoid gunk build up in the future. The Samsung replacement kit for these tubes has larger funnel openings, but no need to buy. Enlarging the funnel openings just requires a razor blade. Replace the tubes and cover and you are done. Two months and the flooding/freezing hasn't occurred again. Good luck!

I watched the video and did the repair tonight. It was easy and straightforward. So stoked you made this video. Thanks CoderMan! Stay awesome. Much appreciate.

I'm a 72 year old woman on SS and am so thankful for this video. Could not figure out how to remove the bottom shelf until I saw your video..Works on double door Samsung 13 months old. Just out of warren-tee. I the had an Ice build up .Even the fan had chunks of ice on it. My 82 year old husband was able to melt it with a hair drier. Thank you Thank you. You are wonderful. Samsung products have gone down hill.

Big, grateful, DIY, Samsung-hating THANK YOU’s to CoderMan for this awesome fix!! Ditto to Brian Dang and Michael McClean for their add-on comments. Our bottom freezer was cold, and the top fridge was almost 60 degrees. After performing CoderMan's great instructions and hours of thawing, water was still pooling at the evaporator drain hole directly below the coils, so I figured there had to be another clog down the line. Took off the bottom rear panel. (SO easy, 4 screws...even tho' its says only an authorized technician should do it) Then looked for the drain hoses into the condenser pan. The second I took of the soft, flimsy restrictor valve from one of the two the drain hoses, water gushed out. That restrictor was clogged with black gunk, which I cleaned out. Before putting back on (to make sure the clogged was the culprit, I poured a little water into the evaporator drain hole and it ran all the way through into the condenser pan! Voila! No clogs! Everything is thawed, free-flowing and cold…at least for now, haha! It IS still Samsung, right?? But we’ve dodged an expensive service call today. For what it’s worth, Hubs & I are of a “certain age” and this was so doable. If our problem returns, I’ll post an update. CoderMan, blessings to you and yours for this video!

Good video dude experiencing the same thing...

Thank you for this informative video. We followed your directions to a tee. It worked perfectly. It is shameful we have to do this for such an expensive refrigerator. I will never buy a Samsung refrigerator again. Thank you very much!

Finally after 8 years my Samsung has this issue. video was awesome. Hopefully the fix will work! Thanks!

I tried all the solutions above and I finally nailed it: let's do a little physics. the fan purpose is to extract away the water which condense on the coil system and thus forming the ice "block". All solutions for tapping and all that are BS, because it won't block humidity to "spread" everywhere. All solution tilting the fridge, it's not gone help either because the ice is building up on top , and then humidity concetration increases and froze to hole where the melted ice -turned water is supposed to go. After trying all the solutions, I end with these 2 things: the top copper pipe is where the ice start to form, so I insulated it with the foam you are supposed to use for windows or gap , the can you can buy at Homedepot for $3. do not put too much, just enough to cover the copper entirely , like a 1/4 maybe 1/3 inch thick. let it dry and get solid and cut the extra to be sure you can re-install the back panel. Then I worked on that back panel, I removed part of the styrofoam which was shaping the "path" where the fan is blowing air away, allowing more air to be "kick out" from the back panel, bringing water humidity with it. I did that solution last July, and since that, NOT A SINGLE defrost to do..before it was getting crazier, like every 10 days! hope he can help others!

I would recommend adding a length of copper wire wrapped around the heating element and then down the drain hole. This ensures heat traveling down all they way removing any ice build up. The current metal piece that is there is simply not long enough.

I found your video after breaking out 1/4" sheet of ice from under the large drawer! Thanks for showing where the water came from. I didn't take the back apart to check the drain yet, but wanted to recommend using a steamer instead of a hair dryer for melting the ice clog. In the service bulletins from Samsung on fixing the common fridge ice maker freeze-ups they say to use a steamer, which I have done several times of course, and it works well and quickly. Thanks, Rich

Just wanted to say thank you for this video. It helped me out immensely and I greatly appreciate that you took the time to make this easy for others.

Thanks this helped a lot

This video was EXACTLY what I was looking for! Perfect! Never buying a Samsung again, but THANK YOU!!

Thank you so much for the detailed video. This happened to me and was extremely helpful in figuring out of to fix it.

Thank you for this video!!! Our fridge just started doing this. We were able to fix our fridge and extend its life a little longer

Thanks for posting this video. I have the same problem with our Samsung refrigerator. Bought the $6 extended metal clip and still had the same issue. Cleaned out the drain tubes in the back even though there was no noticeable blockage or debris. Then, wrapped copper wire around and on the new metal clip and placed deep down the drain hole and still have water leaking under the crisper tray. I'm at a loss and ready to throw this POS. It's a pig with lipstick, looks great on the outside but the devil lives inside. So many silly issues with it but this one is the worst.

Everyone is bashing Samsung, but this is exactly the same problem with my whirlpool gold side by side. Thank for the video, knew it wasn't the freezer drain and no one had a video about water in the bottom of the fridge. Glad I found this.

This solution fixed my Samsung as well. All I can say, besides thank you, is that the drain line took nearly four hours to thaw out. For anyone else attempting this repair, just be aware it can take a really long time to get all of the ice melted in the drain.