Help tapping waterline for icemaker

Hi all,

Its time for a new fridge and we want to get an ice maker. Unfortunately i'm in a town home on a slab and the only want to get water to the back of the fridge is to run copper from the pipes in the attached pictures.

I don't have a floor plan i can provide but real quick the pipes are under the staircase and i'll need to run about 15' of copper to make it from them to the fridge (across the floor, thru the bottom of a pantry, up the fridge.

About the pictures. You will notice 2 meters. The top one appears to be turned off. The knobs don't turn. The meter doesn't change.
The bottom one is definitely working.

Now for the questions... How do i know which lever is street side and which in internal house? Yellow or Red?
Then on which pipe do i tap to run the copper?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Thanks

I like how those ground wires are just wrapped and draped all over...

I can't explain why the two meters. It looks like a hack job was done sometime. Have you examined both meters to see if there are arrows that would indicate direction of flow? Perhaps a real plumber can give more insight on which side is which. I can tell you that you should NOT use the saddle valve that comes with the copper tubing to tap into the water line. You need to solder a tee into the line, then use a ball valve and adapt the size to the tubing. Saddle valves are prone to fail. It might be time to have a plumber come in and clean up that mess. Might be enough copper in the meter to pay for the service call.

I was hoping to go cheap and easy. I'm not planning on staying more than a year or so and was hoping not to incur an unnecessary expenses. Might just have to forgot the ice maker until the new house.

Thanks for the advice!

That is a weird & ugly mess, but it might be pretty irrelevant, too. Is the fridge going anywhere near your kitchen sink? Easyest place to T off is right after the sink shutoff.

Kitchen layout

There is the layout of the kitchen. Very small. Sink is kind of an island that connects to the garage wall.

The wall behind the fridge is a dead wall (dining room is behind it).

The water pipes come in under the stair case.

MG, what you think are ground wires are cables from the meter to a remote read indicator.

I'm pretty sure (not absolute) that the flow is from left to right. Look on the meter connections for an arrow.

Installing a tee, valve, reducing adapters is not a major task. The tee can be virtually anywhere you can access a cold water pipe, but the closer to the fridge the better. You want to have enough copper tubing so you can loop the excess behind the fridge so it can be moved in and out. Since you are not planning to stay in the place for a long time, I would just leave what ain't broke alone. When you move, just leave the copper tubing behind for the next guy.

If you go from the sink, it could be as simple as replacing the cold shutoff valve for the sink connection with a two-port valve. There are valves for compression fittings or threaded, quick and simple. Then, run the line (suggest maybe flexible copper) to the frige. Leave a big loop behind the frige to allow it to be pulled out without kinking or stressing it.

Brasscraft makes a bunch that are in chrome, too. http://www.brasscraft.com/Default.aspx?Page=Products.aspx