Oh those ice makers are a life saver if you love having ice in your cold beverages! But when they clog up or quit working, and if like us, you’re tired of the “fixing”, you start looking for other ways to have ice …. without buying a new appliance. (Average cost to have a new ice maker installed is about $200-$300 depending on model of frig and labor fees.) Yes, an automatic ice maker is essentially another appliance that works inside (or you could say is installed inside) your frig’s freezing compartment. This is a photo of one that’s similar to the one we have…or I should say “had”. Now if you’re looking for a rocket science approach to a ‘fix’, this isn’t that post. 😉 But if you’re looking for a very simple and inexpensive “fix”, do read on. UPDATE: For those who are concerned about your plastic being food grade or not, you can line the container with Saran Wrap or other plastic wrap or line it with aluminum foil. Both options are food safe. Others comments have addressed this issue as well, if you’re looking for more answers to this concern. SECONDARY UPDATE: We’ve been using this little ice “bucket” now for several years with happy success! No smelly ice cubes, no problems with ice cubes all sticking to each other, only a little ‘frosting over’ on the cubes occasionally. It may not be everyone’s perfect solution, but it worked great for us. 🙂
This shows the ice maker unit. Underneath is the ‘bucket’ that holds the cubes as they’re made. Ours initially worked fine but seemed to get clogged frequently with ice in the water tube. We learned via YouTube videos how to fix it ourselves and save a ton of money on repair costs. But then one day…..{sigh} it started leaking onto the floor from the back and we’d had it! After trying a few DIY fixes again, we thought “Well, what did we do in our former house where there wasn’t an auto ice maker? We used ice cube trays!” But we like a lot of ice so we needed something more than just 3 or 4 trays in our little side by side frig/freezer. We needed something that we could store more ice at the ready.
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