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title: "Ice jammed in the dispenser"
description: "Electrolux ice jammed in the dispenser: this maker has its own code for it — DI SP, sometimes shown as DISP — and publishes three causes, all of which are…"
url: "https://electroluxmiami.support/symptoms/ice-dispenser-jammed/"
date_modified: "2026-09-11"
Appliance type: "Ice makers, Refrigerators"
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# Electrolux ice jammed in the dispenser

### What to do in the next ten minutes

Take the bin out completely, empty it, and let it thaw somewhere it can drain. Do not chip at it in place. Look up into the chute with a torch for a piece still wedged and clear it by hand. Dry the bin, refit it squarely, and throw the first new batch away.

### Why this is a South Florida code

Every cause this maker lists is about ice that sat still and changed temperature. A second refrigerator in a Florida room, a household that travels, a bin that went through a summer outage — all of them produce a mass of fused ice around the auger. The machine is not failing; it is reporting a condition it cannot clear itself. What turns it into a repair is somebody attacking it with the paddle or a screwdriver, and that is the part worth avoiding.

Cubes have bonded in the bin

The maker's own first cause. A bin that has not turned over for a week, or that survived an outage, fuses into one lump.

A cube is wedged in the chute

The flap cannot close, the alarm sounds, and the cabinet loses cold air through the opening continuously until it is cleared.

The auger or its motor has been damaged

Usually by somebody forcing the paddle against a jam. That turns a ten-minute clearance into a part.

Remove and thaw the bin

Most of these end here, and it is free.

Torch up the chute

A single wedged cube holding the flap open explains both the alarm and the frost.

Refit the bin squarely

A bin sitting proud jams against the module at the back and re-creates the problem within days.

The display reads DI SP and nothing comes out

What it usually means

DI SP is the maker's own code, and it means a jam rather than a failure

Light use, temperature swings and power cuts are its published causes

Forcing the paddle against a jam is how augers get bent

What to do in the next ten minutes

Take the bin out completely, empty it, and let it thaw somewhere it can drain. Do not chip at it in place. Look up into the chute with a torch for a piece still wedged and clear it by hand. Dry the bin, refit it squarely, and throw the first new batch away.

Why this is a South Florida code

Every cause this maker lists is about ice that sat still and changed temperature. A second refrigerator in a Florida room, a household that travels, a bin that went through a summer outage — all of them produce a mass of fused ice around the auger. The machine is not failing; it is reporting a condition it cannot clear itself. What turns it into a repair is somebody attacking it with the paddle or a screwdriver, and that is the part worth avoiding.

### Can I pour hot water in to clear it?

Not into the chute or the cabinet. Take the bin out and thaw it away from the appliance — water poured into a chute refreezes lower down and makes it worse.

### It jams again every few weeks.

Then the bin is not seating, the flap is not sealing, or the cabinet is cycling in temperature. All three are findable and none of them is the ice.

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