How to do a manual defrost on a freezer with or without No Frost function?

Here's how to do a manual defrost:

1. Remove all food products contained in the product.
2. Turn off the freezer.
3. Pull out the freezer and protect the floor with a board or towel that you are not afraid of (be careful not to damage the floor). If the product is integrated into a kitchen cabinet with a kitchen front, the product must first be released from its fixing points. Then the product needs to be lifted out of the cabinet onto the floor.
4. Check to make sure the container by the compressor does not overflow or move the freezer to a place where the floor can withstand moisture.
5. Leave the door open for at least 24 hours. If you start it too early, there may be condensation or moisture left behind which forms ice immediately when you start the freezer again. This makes the problem come back after just a few weeks and you need to do the defrosting process.
6. At the back of the product, next to the compressor, there is a container where the condensation water collects. There is a risk that it may overflow, so you need to keep an eye on it throughout the defrosting period and empty it if necessary.
   The container cannot be removed from its bracket, so emptying the condensate must be done by hand.
   This point does not apply if the product is of the VINTERKALL or RIBBENÅS models.
7. Place/mount the freezer back in its place, plug it in and start up the freezer (be careful not to damage the floor during this step).

Watch out for water overflow during the defrosting period. The ice is in hidden spaces behind the inner wall, where cooling and defrosting takes place. Depending on the amount of ice in the hidden spaces of the cabinet, larger or smaller amounts of water may flow out of the cabinet.