If you place your new refrigerator near the space your old one occupied and start hooking up all the cables, so that you can put the food you took out of your old refrigerator into the new one, you're likely to run into a bit of a problem.
Your old refrigerator did not have a water filter and therefore you are not sure if you have plumbing for the new one.
Setting up plumbing pipe to the refrigerator to power its ice maker and drinking water dispenser is easy. This is usually done with 1/4 inch bendable copper tubing, that runs from the refrigerator to the nearest water source and is inserted into the plumbing pipe using a saddle clamp or another fitting.
Nowadays, there are convenient 1/4 inch flexible water supply pipes in lengths from 1 to 20 feet, which can be used and convenient fittings, that can be installed almost anywhere where there is an existing shutoff valve.
In most cases the plumbing pipe can be piped from a kitchen faucet through the kitchen cabinets and to the refrigerator. If running the line through the cabinets is not possible, you may need to run a line through the floor and to where the refrigerator is located.
Flexible water supply pipes are available in either strong plastic nylon mesh or braided steel. Although braided steel is significantly more expensive, the extra strength it provides is well worth the investment.
It can be very inconvenient to move a refrigerator to reach a plumbing pipe that is damaged, so buy the best quality plumbing pipe you can.
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