Beware ⚠️ pressing the clean button is not enough, it’s still hiding mold inside, make sure you clean the right way! I ended up throwing it away I do not think this is a safe machine…
May I ask why you ended up throwing it away if you found the way to clean it? Did it just take too much time or did you have to deep clean too frequently? I just found that mold stuff in my machine this morning, and your video seems to be the answer to the issue... because I was also about to throw the whole thing out.
@@DimpledRae frequently cleaning and scared of the risk of getting sick , even if I was on a weekly schedule of cleaning it I still felt I don’t know what day the mold started growing was it day 4 or 3 or 7 😩 so I didn’t want to guess.. no use ,no sickness was my thought process, I bought reusable ice like from the old days 🤣
Thank you for the detailed information. I have the one with the very big deep tank in the back so i gotta reach my hand all the way in to get it cleaned
@@tiffanysgottimetoday4589how did you get the sides and top off we need to know that part. I got the screws out but I don't want to break the plastic sides and top.
@ make sure you take the screws out the bottom also once all screws are removed take the back off first. Then slide off the sides then the top is last, they are hard to pop off.. you need a little force
Thank for this!! I was accessing the reservoir from inside and was stressed there were parts I couldn’t reach to clean! Hope your pillow is always cool, you get all green lights, and receive many blessings in the future!
Thankyu for this video! The newer models has access to it and for me I don’t run it 24/7. We have an ice area (square bowl in the freezer) and I fill that up which last about a week but takes a few hours to fill.. When it is filled, I empty everything, dry thoroughly and let the whole machine air dry with the baskets sir also drying one top and openly - while it’s covered lightly (with either a thin fabric or paper napkins).. After a day then I make sure everything is bone dry then I put everything back in place and close the back (the newest edition and the area where the water reservoir is as in this video).. mahalo again!
Thanks for the good tutorial… You’re the only one that I’ve seen take the top off for the deep cleaning. My unit is one and a half months old and just did my first cleaning after the power went off while on vacation and the water just sit in there for a week and stared to get slimy in the reservoir. I saw someone comment about that plastic clear piece in front of the reservoir being able to slide open and it was in the instruction booklet too… So I removed it and wiped everything from the inside. I don’t see any blobs of mold, so I think I caught it before it got worse. Thank you for the great video!
Would love to see a follow up video of taking the sides and top off. Also how the top operates with no screws once assembled and if it’s easily assessable. Overall good information, thanks for sharing!
God bless you!! I have never done a deep clean to my unit before and really wanted to do one, not just a flush. I am shocked at how gross it was in there!! That life-hack of not screwing the top back on is awesome, because unscrewing that was stressful... Thank you so much for sharing this video!!!
This video totally helped me. They really should have made this machine with that lid being able to remove it to clean it properly. I really love our machine. It is on 24/7. Thank u!!!
I took mine apart and found a little slime in this area. I was getting black in my ice but was rubber. I removed the little 3 screw cover in water reservoir area and found the round rubber mold was 1/3 gone and shreds of rubber everywhere. Walmart $34 warranty is worth its weight in dollars now. I buy it for stuff like this anymore. K cup machines are a must buy. They just dont last for me. My icemaker was 13 just months old.
Remove screws from bottom cover remove it and move screws exposed. Sides come off easily when all the screws are out. She did it with those nails glued on her fingers. Go girl !!!
This is why you use cleaning bleach weekly and vinegar monthly. The bleach and vinegar serve two different purposes. Bleach for mold Vinegar for calcium build-up. But overall, you did that!!!😊
You don't have to remove the top to clean that reservoir. You remove the top tank from the front. There is a little clear window that slides out where you can clean that reservoir. It's wedged so you can slide it in to seal it back off. You can see it in the upper left hand corner from the front after removing the water reservoir. Hope this helps .
You had me crying 😂😂😂. But, you done it right Distilled vinegar. Is used for cleaning everything. They even use it in swimming pools instead of Chlorine. Natural way to disinfect.
The front of that upper reservoir has a little slider with a silicone gasket. You can take the water tray out, pull out the slider thing, and wipe out that upper reservoir. It's a little tight, but no screwdriver is needed
I was in question to buy one of these or not. After watching your take apart video and seeing how simple it is and everything I ordered one. I will modify mine also so the lid comes off easy to clean.
Good to know :) thanks...I was trying to take the top off and couldnt figure out how. It is misleading because there is an arrow pointing to the back on the top piece, so I thought you could kust slide it off. In the booklet it says to clean it through the baffle...how? :) its like 2 inch by 1 inch opening
Great video. Thank you. Have you had any issue with yours leaking? I need to figure out why/ where the leak is coming from. It looks up around the pull out flat tray in front. It is not bc it’s full of water. There are only ever a few drops in there.
Just bought one at Costco yesterday and started reading how to clean it. Were you cleaning it regularly before you found the glob of mold. Do you normally clean it weekly ? It says weekly. Do I need to do it weekly? It also has another part that says what parts to clean daily ??? I love ice. I hope this does not require so much maintenance. I think mine is very similar to yours.
I cleaned it weekly and like 3 times during the cleaning not just once so example on cleaning day it will be cleaned triple and still it was a big nasty blob ..it freaked me out because I cleaned over the amount suggested on a regular basis and I was like it’s no way this thing is dirty I’m using boiling hot water and vinegar. So I took it apart , I only had it a couple of months when I made this video. Yes it is a lot of maintenance so I just threw it away I don’t think it’s safe, I bought reusable ice instead…
I just bought this and did the typical cleaning before use. The first couple of buckets of ice were fine but a day later they started tasting very bad, like plastic. Did you ever run I to that?
I have a model that is the same but ends in a “5”. I purchased from Costco, I know sometimes that have model numbers specifically for them. The unit looks identical to yours. I did as you did and left the screws out of the top portion, However it seems like you need an incredible amount of force to pull the lid out from under the groove and I’ve scared I will break it. Did you not push the top underneath the front lip so it comes off easy, or do I just need to apply more force? I don’t want to have an “oops” moment
@@drjoeshmoe well after a nasty black blob of goo fell out I didn’t care if it broke! because I was disgusted 🤢 I did apply pressure to take it off bcuz it’s hard, but thinking my family drinking moldy ice sometime you have to do what’s needed to take it off
Me and my friend poured water into that hole in the reservoir and draining it out the low tube, and built up minerals were coming out. We put water through there so many times, and it just kept coming and coming.
I just watched another video same exact machine Make sure you get them drain hoses clean because they do swish water back and forth to each other and the things that I seen come out will make you not ever want to eat of another piece of ice out of any kind of machine again.
I threw it away I don’t think it’s a safe machine it accumulate to much mold in a 7 day period I’m scared of getting sick so I bought reusable Ice from Amazon
@@tiffanysgottimetoday4589girl there’s a reset button on it! it may just need that. mine in my room ALWAYS beeps so i had to constantly press the button.
What an over engineered failure. This machine was designed to be used for a few months, then thrown away. Any machine designed without the intention of the user being able to mechanically clean all of the surfaces exposed to water for a prolonged period of time is gross. This is why you are able to take apart most humidifiers. At the very least the top part should be removable as a feature.
Beware ⚠️ pressing the clean button is not enough, it’s still hiding mold inside, make sure you clean the right way! I ended up throwing it away I do not think this is a safe machine…
May I ask why you ended up throwing it away if you found the way to clean it? Did it just take too much time or did you have to deep clean too frequently? I just found that mold stuff in my machine this morning, and your video seems to be the answer to the issue... because I was also about to throw the whole thing out.
@@DimpledRae frequently cleaning and scared of the risk of getting sick , even if I was on a weekly schedule of cleaning it I still felt I don’t know what day the mold started growing was it day 4 or 3 or 7 😩 so I didn’t want to guess.. no use ,no sickness was my thought process, I bought reusable ice like from the old days 🤣
How did u take out the sides
@@tiffanysgottimetoday4589 How did you get the sides off ????
Thank you for the detailed information. I have the one with the very big deep tank in the back so i gotta reach my hand all the way in to get it cleaned
Thank you! Only video I've found that explains how to do this
Glad it helped
@@tiffanysgottimetoday4589how did you get the sides and top off we need to know that part. I got the screws out but I don't want to break the plastic sides and top.
@ make sure you take the screws out the bottom also once all screws are removed take the back off first. Then slide off the sides then the top is last, they are hard to pop off.. you need a little force
Oh my lord…you are 100% spot on. Thank you for sharing this. Ours had a ton of mold in it!
Thank u for doing the hard work! Very detailed explanation-appreciate u!
Thank for this!! I was accessing the reservoir from inside and was stressed there were parts I couldn’t reach to clean! Hope your pillow is always cool, you get all green lights, and receive many blessings in the future!
Thankyu for this video!
The newer models has access to it and for me I don’t run it 24/7. We have an ice area (square bowl in the freezer) and I fill that up which last about a week but takes a few hours to fill..
When it is filled, I empty everything, dry thoroughly and let the whole machine air dry with the baskets sir also drying one top and openly - while it’s covered lightly (with either a thin fabric or paper napkins)..
After a day then I make sure everything is bone dry then I put everything back in place and close the back (the newest edition and the area where the water reservoir is as in this video).. mahalo again!
Thanks for the good tutorial… You’re the only one that I’ve seen take the top off for the deep cleaning. My unit is one and a half months old and just did my first cleaning after the power went off while on vacation and the water just sit in there for a week and stared to get slimy in the reservoir. I saw someone comment about that plastic clear piece in front of the reservoir being able to slide open and it was in the instruction booklet too… So I removed it and wiped everything from the inside. I don’t see any blobs of mold, so I think I caught it before it got worse. Thank you for the great video!
Would love to see a follow up video of taking the sides and top off. Also how the top operates with no screws once assembled and if it’s easily assessable. Overall good information, thanks for sharing!
God bless you!! I have never done a deep clean to my unit before and really wanted to do one, not just a flush. I am shocked at how gross it was in there!! That life-hack of not screwing the top back on is awesome, because unscrewing that was stressful... Thank you so much for sharing this video!!!
This video totally helped me. They really should have made this machine with that lid being able to remove it to clean it properly. I really love our machine. It is on 24/7. Thank u!!!
This is amazing. Thank you for making this video. It was very helpful and you ACTUALLY explained how to clean it.
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome Tiffany, thank you for the video, you have way more courage than me in disassembling your machine😂 Great video and thank you again, well done
I took mine apart and found a little slime in this area. I was getting black in my ice but was rubber. I removed the little 3 screw cover in water reservoir area and found the round rubber mold was 1/3 gone and shreds of rubber everywhere.
Walmart $34 warranty is worth its weight in dollars now. I buy it for stuff like this anymore. K cup machines are a must buy. They just dont last for me.
My icemaker was 13 just months old.
This is a great tutorial on cleaning the ice machine thoroughly. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
How do you get the sides off?
Pull out words softly and down that’s how I got mines off
Remove screws from bottom cover remove it and move screws exposed. Sides come off easily when all the screws are out. She did it with those nails glued on her fingers. Go girl !!!
Thank you 🙏🏾
Great info! Bout to fix mine tmro. Side note: Change your smoke detector batteries! 😂😂
Just bought this. Thank you for taking it apart for me
Thanks I have the ice maker like that I’m going to take mine apart and clean it tomorrow thanks for sharing
Good luck!
Theres a clear door you can lift up to access that upper reservoir to clean without removing the lid😊
This is why you use cleaning bleach weekly and vinegar monthly. The bleach and vinegar serve two different purposes.
Bleach for mold
Vinegar for calcium build-up.
But overall, you did that!!!😊
Thanks for the tips!
You don't have to remove the top to clean that reservoir. You remove the top tank from the
front. There is a little clear window that slides out where you can clean that reservoir. It's wedged so you can slide it in to seal it back off. You can see it in the upper left hand corner from the front after removing the water reservoir. Hope this helps .
Great video. This helped!
You had me crying 😂😂😂. But, you done it right Distilled vinegar. Is used for cleaning everything. They even use it in swimming pools instead of Chlorine. Natural way to disinfect.
Thank you very greatfull for the video 😊😊😊😊
got mold even when using bleach water for cleaning cycles?
God bless you! I didn’t know about popping the top off!
I took mine apart like this and now we’re trying to put the hoses back where they belong! 🤣 I was trying to see where to put them in this video.
The front of that upper reservoir has a little slider with a silicone gasket. You can take the water tray out, pull out the slider thing, and wipe out that upper reservoir. It's a little tight, but no screwdriver is needed
You don't show how you got the sides off or the top. That's what we need to know so we don't break the plastic.
I was in question to buy one of these or not. After watching your take apart video and seeing how simple it is and everything I ordered one. I will modify mine also so the lid comes off easy to clean.
Good to know :) thanks...I was trying to take the top off and couldnt figure out how. It is misleading because there is an arrow pointing to the back on the top piece, so I thought you could kust slide it off. In the booklet it says to clean it through the baffle...how? :) its like 2 inch by 1 inch opening
Thank you!! This was so helpful ❤
Great video. Thank you. Have you had any issue with yours leaking? I need to figure out why/ where the leak is coming from. It looks up around the pull out flat tray in front. It is not bc it’s full of water. There are only ever a few drops in there.
Very helpful. Thank you.
Hahah beeeep but helpful
Thank you for this!!!
Just bought one at Costco yesterday and started reading how to clean it. Were you cleaning it regularly before you found the glob of mold. Do you normally clean it weekly ? It says weekly. Do I need to do it weekly? It also has another part that says what parts to clean daily ??? I love ice. I hope this does not require so much maintenance. I think mine is very similar to yours.
I cleaned it weekly and like 3 times during the cleaning not just once so example on cleaning day it will be cleaned triple and still it was a big nasty blob ..it freaked me out because I cleaned over the amount suggested on a regular basis and I was like it’s no way this thing is dirty I’m using boiling hot water and vinegar. So I took it apart , I only had it a couple of months when I made this video. Yes it is a lot of maintenance so I just threw it away I don’t think it’s safe, I bought reusable ice instead…
I just bought this and did the typical cleaning before use. The first couple of buckets of ice were fine but a day later they started tasting very bad, like plastic. Did you ever run I to that?
I was able to take the sides off but can’t get the lid off. Girl, please help. You’re the only one who had a detailed video 😭
Look up under edge of the lid and you will see more screws.
Thanks for making this video. It helps a lot🙏🏼 One question did you get this from Walmart? I’ve seen them in many colors!
Yes
I have a model that is the same but ends in a “5”. I purchased from Costco, I know sometimes that have model numbers specifically for them. The unit looks identical to yours.
I did as you did and left the screws out of the top portion,
However it seems like you need an incredible amount of force to pull the lid out from under the groove and I’ve scared I will break it.
Did you not push the top underneath the front lip so it comes off easy, or do I just need to apply more force?
I don’t want to have an “oops” moment
@@drjoeshmoe well after a nasty black blob of goo fell out I didn’t care if it broke! because I was disgusted 🤢
I did apply pressure to take it off bcuz it’s hard, but thinking my family drinking moldy ice sometime you have to do what’s needed to take it off
Me and my friend poured water into that hole in the reservoir and draining it out the low tube, and built up minerals were coming out. We put water through there so many times, and it just kept coming and coming.
Can you show exactly how you take the back and to off? After taking out the 8 screws on the back, still cannot get back or top to come off.
did the top piece just lay on top and easy access when you clean it again?
Yes
I just watched another video same exact machine Make sure you get them drain hoses clean because they do swish water back and forth to each other and the things that I seen come out will make you not ever want to eat of another piece of ice out of any kind of machine again.
Yea I ended up throwing the machine away yesterday and I purchased reusable ice cubes , I just don’t trust it at all I can’t mentally do it 😂
I have one of these.
The ice light comes on, but the Power light does not and it is making ice very slow
How did you take the sides and top off?
It’s screws at the bottom you start with first, then take the sides off
Thank you for this! I was wondering how to clean that reservoir.
@@derekromano3026 if you never cleaned it you will get a surprise 🤢🤷🏽♀️😂
@@tiffanysgottimetoday4589 I actually just bought it but so glad I found this vid so hopefully I never get that surprise 😝
I'm so glad I came across ur video cause I have this same unit. Thanks for sharing!
Hi how do u take the top off?
After taking off all screws slide it off
you did all that but couldn’t change the battery in your smoke detector
Need to change your smoke detector batteries it sounds like
Thank you
Mines won't suck the water up to the top
Why wouldn’t they just make a sliding access door for that one area???
Is your machine loud?
I threw it away I don’t think it’s a safe machine it accumulate to much mold in a 7 day period I’m scared of getting sick so I bought reusable Ice from Amazon
Thanks sis
Welcome 😊
You will do all that to clean an ice maker but you can’t be bothered to replace a smoke detector battery.
@@SamMeador-p8c it still works with the battery beeping 😂
@@tiffanysgottimetoday4589girl there’s a reset button on it! it may just need that. mine in my room ALWAYS beeps so i had to constantly press the button.
What an over engineered failure. This machine was designed to be used for a few months, then thrown away. Any machine designed without the intention of the user being able to mechanically clean all of the surfaces exposed to water for a prolonged period of time is gross. This is why you are able to take apart most humidifiers. At the very least the top part should be removable as a feature.
waste of time...