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Can I fix a fridge leak myself, or should I call a pro?

07.06.2025 12:00

Can I fix a fridge leak myself, or should I call a pro?

You can actually but before you even attempt all of this I would bone up on what we're talking about being a leak here I am assuming you mean a leak from a refrigerator meaning refrigerant is leaking out of the copper piping and letting the R134A gas out of the system and now nothing happens no cooling nothing just a fan running so you will have to know how to sweat on adapters which will allow you to screw gauges and get freon cans to connect to the copper pipes of the system you're working on the refrigerator You will have to learn how to use a torch a small one solder things like that which is very easy to do don't get me wrong takes a second to learn how to do this then you will need to figure out where the leak is in a refrigerator it can be underneath the foam and a line or all the way in the fridge behind a sheet metal cover called the evaporator core which is the part that gets cold and then that cold is blown into the refrigerator and kept in the freezer to make the temperature if you want so right here I probably already talked way over your head about what's going on so you would get on YouTube and watch some videos of people fixing sealed system leaks in appliances a refrigerator is considered a sealed system most companies will not take this job they will recommend you buy a new refrigerator because many times seal system repairs don't work and you're stuck with 2 hours or 3 hours worth of labor some parts and nonsense that you have to pay for even though it doesn't work That's why most companies will not touch the sealed system repair call around and ask them most worth their salt will tell you it's not worth their trouble The failure rate is way too high and you'll just be unhappy and talk crap about them on the internet and so they will bow out call around and ask I...