How to Clean Lime & Calcium Deposits from Your Refrigerator's Ice maker the Green Way

Use vinegar to clean the ice maker in your refrigerator.

If you live in an area with hard water you know the nightmare lime and calcium deposits can be. If your refrigerator is has an ice maker, eventually the hard water and lime deposits will clog up the mechanism and it will no longer make ice. Most cleaning products will not remove it and if they do, the ice may become tainted and taste bad. Instead of spending a ton of money on products that promise to remove the deposits, try using white vinegar. It's not only cheap but it works and it is environmentally safe too.

Things You'll Need

• White Vinegar
• Paper Towels or rags

Instructions

1. Pour enough vinegar into the outside bottom portion of the ice maker unit. If the deposits are covering the upper portion, wet it well using a cloth soaked in the vinegar.

2. Let the vinegar stand for approximately twenty minutes before removing.

3. Rinse vinegar off the ice maker with a clean cloth soaked in water. You may need to do this several times to make sure all of the vinegar is removed.

4. Soak up excess vinegar with a cloth or paper towels, gently rubbing away the deposits as you go. Repeat this process if necessary, but most, if not all of the deposits should easily wipe away the first round.

5. If this is repeated monthly, you should never be faced with a huge build-up of deposits again.