|
Posted by krw on January 6, 2007, 3:34 pm
norminn@earthlink.net says...
> SMcK wrote:
> > We're considering buying a used GE refrigerator w/ ice maker. Our
> > current fridge has no ice maker and there is no water supply to that
> > area of the kitchen. I was wondering how feasible it would be to rig
> > up a connection to a big bottle of spring water on top of the fridge
> > for use in the icemaker. Advantages would include improved flavor of
> > the water and not having to run a water line down into the crawlspace,
> > under the kitchen and up behind the new fridge. Disadvantages would
> > include need to periodically replace the water bottle, and the overall
> > kludgi-ness of such a system. Does this just sound like a silly idea
> > or does it have merit? I guess the first, most important question
> > would be: would the gravity feed to the icemaker provide sufficient
> > water pressure?
> >
> > Thanks
> > -Scott
> >
> My hubby and I hooked up the plumbing on our first ice maker. Saddle
> valve,
Saddle valves suck. WHen I added shut-offs for all the wet rooms I
replaced the freezer saddle valve with a ball valve and appropriate
reducers. It was a piece of cake.
> extra length of copper tubing to coil behind the fridge and allow
> it to be pulled out without damaging it. It was our first plumbing job.
> Nothing to it. That particlar kitchen was on a slab and a door
> between the fridge and water supply. We laid the tubing against the
> threshold across doorway. With all the traffic through that door, we
> never had a problem with it.
> Our most recent ice maker was hooked up by plumber. He advised hooking
> it to the hot water line; said it makes for less cloudy ice. Works
> fine. Same extra length of tubing, in a large coil, to allow room to
> pull out the fridge without kinking tubing. This one has tubing passed
> through side of kitchen cabine with small hole drilled for it. Water
> heater is underneath a corner cabinet (condo) and wh accessed from
> utility closet outside our unit.
>
Our fridge has a water filter built in so the ice isn't all that
cloudy, not that I care much about cloudy ice (we usually crunch it
up ;) AFAIC, hot water for an ice maker is wasted energy. The hot
water will never make it to the ice maker anyway.
--
Keith.
| 
Yahoo! 
Google 
Windows Live 
del.icio.us 
digg 
Netscape 
XML Sitemap