We connected the ice maker in our new refrigerator ourselves, but it was a plastic line with no slack and it leaked. We went without ice for half the year before we had plumbers replace the plastic line with flexible copper tubing.
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We don't ordinarily look behind the refrigerator, so it took us a while to notice this problem. The original plastic water line was too short, so it wasn't possible to connect it with enough clearance from the wall to make sure the seal was tight.
On the same day we had the plumbers reset the toilet in the 3rd-floor bathroom at the close of the leaking soil stack incident, we had them replace the ice maker water line with flexible copper tubing. Because the area in the basement under the refrigerator is a finished bathroom, it was necessary to punch a hole in the basement bathroom ceiling in order to install the new copper tubing.
Plumbing by:
South Side Plumbing & Heating
(recommended by our insurance company for our
soil stack replacement, so we had them do this as well.)
Other joys:
ice maker
garage door opener
water heater
soil stack
laundry drain
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