How to Clean Refrigerator Coils (Under Fridge) to Maximize Efficiency & Extend Your Fridge's Life

- Cleaning the condenser coils underneath a fridge doesn't have to be a difficult or messy process! This method will keep dust to a bare minimum and leave your coils sparkling clean!

Refrigerator condenser coils need to be clean in order to vent out excess heat from the refrigeration process. If left unchecked, they quickly become caked with dust over the course of a year (or more!). This thick layer of dust insulates the coils and holds the heat in the system that is supposed to be vented out. This causes your compressor to work longer and harder to cool your fridge and freezer off. In time, you'll burn out your compressor faster than you otherwise would have.

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If your coils are underneath your fridge, you'll need the following tools to clean them:

- Screwdriver (nut drive, or impact driver) to remove the screws on the back panel
- A box fan
- A furnace filter (or thin cloth)
- Air compressor (canned air with a straw may work, I haven't tried it though)
- Vacuum

Step 1: Pull fridge out and remove the back panel at the bottom with the screwdriver, unplug fridge.

Step 2: Open fridge doors, grab the grill at the bottom and pull up and out from the far ends to expose the coils.

Step 3: Place the box fan behind the fridge so that it blows away from the fridge, and place the furnace filter or thin linen (that will act like a filter) on the backside of the fan and between the fridge. Turn the fan on high speed and place it directly against the fridge with the filter between.

Step 4: From the front use the air compressor to blow the dust off the coils until you achieve the desired level of cleanliness.

Step 5: Tip the fan over to reveal the filter and then unplug the fan. Shake the filter off outside.

Step 6: Place the fan on the front side so that it blows away from the fridge and once again place the filter between them.

Step 7: Use the air compressor to reach any of the coils on the reverse side that didn't get fully cleaned.

Step 8: Turn off the fan and shake the filter off outside. Replace the back panel and front grill in the reverse order that you removed them. Push the fridge back in place. Vacuum up any dust the escaped the filter.