How do you clean yours?

I bought some little brushes off eBay, only couple of quid, brilliant.

I use cotton buds for cleaning anything small that tends to get dirty, especially the holes in my old Singer sewing machine that you use to oil the working parts, hole in bottom of fridge and freezer and anything else you can think of.

I looked at the amazon link. Brushes look useful. Concerned to learn that the brushes can be used for my tumble drier which also has a vent ???

I bought a Sonic Scrubber from Lakeland. The small brush fits perfectly.

Oh great ideas folks. Thank you! This is one of those irritations of modern day living. My fridge is weeping again. I’ll try the pipe cleaner idea. Lots of those in my GC craft box.

I have a watery hole too ??.
I poke it with kitchen paper.
But to stop the watery bottom I have a blue jay cloth underneath the veg drawer. This stops wet feet when opening the veg drawer!!

Sorry Greyduster I see you have already posted a similar suggestion. Can you remember where you got them from?

I have some small wire brushes with a bristle head, similar to the brushes we used to get for cleaning babies’ bottles but much smaller. I can’t remember where I got them from but they are very useful for lots of cleaning jobs.

Annep. Wonderful you cleaning your fridge shelves all the time. I do mine some of the time!!!

I have an old brush for cleaning the teapot spout which cleans the hole on the fridge perfectly. But to be really effective we have to pull the fridge out and get to the small tube behind it. Then of course I notice how much dust and fluff (and Lego pieces for some reason) there is.

I thought it was just me! Our fridge is only a few years old and has one of these drainage holes. It seems to block up with black gunge, then the shelf of the fridge gets all wet. I will try the dental stick. That sounds like a good idea.

This fridge has a collection tray at the back. OH pulls out the fridge once a month and empties it. The other fridge we had had a hole that was always getting blocked and causing problems but not this one. Thank goodness for OH.

Think someone else has mentioned a pipe cleaner. The long ones you can get in craft places folded in half to make it a bit easier to poke around with works well for us. I bought a pack of about 20 for a £1 so will last for a while,assorted colours so makes a yukky job a bit more cheery!

I have a set of what look like tiny bottle cleaning brushes and I use the longest of them for this job, then dump it in bleach to clean it.

A cotton bud worked well on my old fridge I haven't found one on the new one

I prefer the older design of fridge with a drip tray to empty. Be careful not to put anything against the back of the fridge as the drips going down the back of the fridge will pick bits up.
Mine has never got clogged but I did get a nasty smell a couple of times. The first time I couldn't work out where it was coming from for a while. The best way to get rid of it is to use dissolved Milton tablets. You just have to bear in mind the size of the drip tray when you pour it through and it may need to be done a couple of times.

Our fridge has one, unfortunately, and even a couple of hours after the regular unblocking (with an old-fashioned knife sharpening steel, dipped in hot water) it’s iced up again. Leave it a fortnight and there’s a glacier in front of it to chip off. It hasn’t worked from day 1, and the fridge temperature is too low even at the bottom setting. Why I didn’t send the darn thing back, I don’t know.

I fold an old towel into the bottom of the salad tray, to keep it dry.

A three inch screw...from my tool box does the trick...poke it around s bit and it seems to clear!

I clean mine very efficiently ( not bragging, hoisted a slimy rotting courgette out of the cooler the other day that must have been there for yonks) with a little brush that looks like a miniature artificial Christmas tree. It was given to me by an eccentric friend, who appeared to have dozens of the things. I'll ask her where she obtained them.

There is the perfect tool in existence for cleaning the hole of Doom.

HERE

Pipe cleaners

Cotton wool bud... though I gather those are going to be banned soon... and a chopstick works too.

Cotton buds x

Use a bottle brush (there are thin ones on Amazon) or a dental hygiene brush which come in different sizes. They look like mini bottle brushes.

I havent got one,I wonder why!