little draining hole at the back of my fridge is blocked..

[Irishchic]

...and the water is now continually leaking down into one of the veg compartments unless I soak it up every day with a tea towel.

Does anyone know how to unblock these holes?

Get a skewer and poke it in there, should remove any gunk.

Chop stick is traditional - or a pipe cleaner. Do you have small children with a craft box you could raid?

I used an old syringe, stuck it down the hole slightly and sucked out the goo - it was thick, slimey and gross!

pipe cleaner?

Mine came with a tool to unblock it with, basically a plastic thing that looked a bit like a large needle threader.
Try poking it with a kebab stick or even a cotton bud

You should have a little mimi plunger for these sorts of emergencies.

I use a fat pipecleaner

Have the proper thing that came with it but a cable tie is just as good.

Or even a couple of those ties (that come with freezer bags) twisted together.

Improvisation is clearly rife on here

I use a bent skewer

Thanks for all those suggestions, I will try them out!

Bendy straw and blow into it. (Just in case you were tempted to suck ! bleuch. )

Trumpton - would that not just push the gunk further in to the hole??

Another vote here for the bendy straw. However I don't blow or suck (ooer missus), I just wriggle it about a bit.

Cotton bud, IME.

Nah it blows it straight through into the evaporation tray.

one two three, STRAW and

..

... SUCK!

sorry.

Dont poke and push what ever is in there further IN!

Aaah, but if you use a pipe cleaner the guckky fridge slime sticks to the hairs.

Note to self- I must get a life!..

And similarly with the cotton bud. It's very satisfying, in a slightly disturbed sort of way...

I've just sucked mine out with wet/dry hoover

I have Furball envy

Read this with interest - I always thought the hole went right down to the bottom of the fridge - is it just a short passage to the outside then? Mine is yucky and black as well but didn't want to poke about in case all the gunk got stuck halfway down.

I used one of DD's thin paintbrushes.

Thanks all .....I didn't have a pipe cleaner so I improvised and used an handle from a paper carrier bag. Worked a treat.

Thanks for getting back to us Lynn