thebordella
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Hi,
I am preparing to install a water line for a new fridge with icemaker. My house is on a well, and there is a utility room with the infrastructure -- incoming well pipe, water tank, water softener (the old two-piece kind with a salt container and some sort of torpedo-shaped device), and hot water tank (heated by oil furnace).
The fridge is right on the other side of the wall shared with the water utility room. So it seems like the sensible thing is drill a hole in the shared wall and tap into the water room somehow to draw water to the fridge. The run would be only a few feet.
My confusion is that unlike under the kitchen sink with just a hot and cold supply line, there are many pipes in the water room. There are pipes coming in from outside (presumably the well source), there are pipes into the storage tank, pipes to the softener, pipes to the water heater, etc. In some cases multiple pipes in and out. It isn't clear to me what goes where, or what direction the water flows.
Presumably I want to tap into water that has already been softened. This is probably a dumb question, but what is the sequence of events here? The well water is pumped up from the ground, and goes where? Into the softener and then the storage tank? Or the reverse?
Some of the pipes seem to be copper, some are pvc. The typical icemaker install uses a saddle valve, but is this a bad idea? Should I install a "real" T connection and an angle stop to feed the fridge? (This would have to be on a pvc pipe because I don't know how to work with copper).
Sorry for so many questions. Basically I'm looking for guidance on how to decide which pipe to tap among this complex of pipes, and what your preferred method to tap would be.
thanks!
I am preparing to install a water line for a new fridge with icemaker. My house is on a well, and there is a utility room with the infrastructure -- incoming well pipe, water tank, water softener (the old two-piece kind with a salt container and some sort of torpedo-shaped device), and hot water tank (heated by oil furnace).
The fridge is right on the other side of the wall shared with the water utility room. So it seems like the sensible thing is drill a hole in the shared wall and tap into the water room somehow to draw water to the fridge. The run would be only a few feet.
My confusion is that unlike under the kitchen sink with just a hot and cold supply line, there are many pipes in the water room. There are pipes coming in from outside (presumably the well source), there are pipes into the storage tank, pipes to the softener, pipes to the water heater, etc. In some cases multiple pipes in and out. It isn't clear to me what goes where, or what direction the water flows.
Presumably I want to tap into water that has already been softened. This is probably a dumb question, but what is the sequence of events here? The well water is pumped up from the ground, and goes where? Into the softener and then the storage tank? Or the reverse?
Some of the pipes seem to be copper, some are pvc. The typical icemaker install uses a saddle valve, but is this a bad idea? Should I install a "real" T connection and an angle stop to feed the fridge? (This would have to be on a pvc pipe because I don't know how to work with copper).
Sorry for so many questions. Basically I'm looking for guidance on how to decide which pipe to tap among this complex of pipes, and what your preferred method to tap would be.
thanks!
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