How To Install Ice Maker Filter

How to Install a Refrigerator Water Filter

Updated: Jun. 26, 2019

Quick-connect fittings make installation and maintenance easy

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Purify the water supply to your ice- and water-dispensing fridge. Elementary inline water filters help remove chemic tastes and odors, making water fresher and better tasting.

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External Water Filter for Refrigerator: Cut the piping and install the fittings

Photo ane: Cut the supply line

Turn off the shutoff valve and disconnect the supply line. Marking the filter width on the supply line and cut it out. Tighten the pipage cutter in small increments to avoid pinching the soft copper tube. Deburr the cut end with sandpaper or a file (cut plastic tubing with a utility knife).

Photograph 2: Add the fittings

Skid the brass nut and ferrule onto the tubing. (If you accept a plastic water line, insert the brass reinforcers into the tube ends). Thread the brass nut onto the fitting until finger tight, and twist it 1 total plough with two wrenches (the longer fitting goes on the supply side).

Photo 3: Snap in the filter

Snap the filter into the supply side. Make sure the waterflow indicator points toward the refrigerator. Support the filter and slowly open up the h2o shutoff valve until h2o sprays out of the unhooked stop. Hang a bucket from a screw and flush h2o through the filter for approximately five minutes (ii to iii gallons), and then snap information technology into the other plumbing fixtures.

Install a refrigerator water filter to remove the bad taste from drinking water and water ice cubes. An inexpensive inline refrigerator water filter reduces chlorine, rust, sediment and odors for water- and ice-dispensing refrigerators. Filters are bachelor from home centers and appliance stores.

The filter splices into the standard 1/4-in. copper or plastic refrigerator water supply line (Photo 1). Locate the filter as close as possible to the water shutoff valve. Leave at to the lowest degree 6 in. of clearance between the wall and refrigerator when installing the filter behind a fridge. One time you install the system, quick-connect fittings make it easy to modify the filter.

Turn off the shutoff valve and disconnect the ane/4- in. supply line from the valve (hold a bucket under the valve to catch residual water). Some types of valves leak. You may have to plough off the principal water supply valve to your home. Cut back the tubing (Photo 1) and adhere the quick-connect fittings (Photo 2). Snap the filter into the fittings.

Secure the tubing on the fridge side with a one/4-in. copper strap and flush the filter to manipulate any fine loose carbon particles (Photograph 3). If a leak occurs, tighten the nuts or fittings. Strap the filter to whatsoever nearby support to take stress off the tubing. Write the installation date on the filter and replace it every six months with a new one.

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Originally Published: June 26, 2019