Found out my fridge has a $4 fix for a water leak that I spent 2 days stressing over

That loud drip from my ice maker in our Denver rental turned out to be a clogged $4 plastic line fitting a TikTok video showed me how to clear with a wet/dry vac in under 3 minutes, has anyone else found a cheap fix that saved their sanity?

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sanchez.pat27d ago

My girlfriend's ancient dryer in our Aurora place sounded like a jet engine for months until I found a video showing the lint trap was basically welded shut from buildup, cost me maybe $3 and a half hour of scraping.

kelly_craig27d ago

Look, I get that lint buildup is gross and all, but calling it a fire hazard in a "basically welded shut" way feels a bit over the top, @sanchez.pat. Most dryers have safety features these days (like thermal fuses) that would shut it down before things got truly dangerous. You're telling me a $3 fix and a half hour of scraping turned a jet engine into a silent machine? I'm skeptical. It probably just needed a new belt or something, and the lint was just an extra thing you noticed. People love to dramatize home maintenance stuff online, you know?

daniel47415d ago

Man that's pretty much exactly what happened to me last year with my old dryer. I was ready to drop $200 on a repair guy until I decided to pull the thing apart myself. The lint trap wasn't just full, it was caked on there like concrete. Took a putty knife and about 45 minutes of scraping and it sounded brand new. Even the heat kicked in way faster after that. Sometimes it really is just the obvious stuff nobody wants to check.