This worked for maybe 4-5 months.  Then, as other reviewers state, blocks of ice, water leakage, etc.  We had to pull the freezer out, remove the block of ice and dump it in the pool, and restart the machine and make ice for when we had company over, repeat.  Awful for entertaining and hosting.  I love to make cocktails for friends and I HATE this ice machine.  If I could punch it in the throat I would.