Just heard another horror story of a refrigerator water connection that sprung a leak and flooded most of a home when the owners were away for a couple of days. When I hear this I conjure up the image of water leaking from a main level fridge, down through a heat vent and onto a big office computer desk, with the computer on the desk.
No wonder a lot of builders will not hook these babies up around here. The appliance delivery people, who are not paid gobs of money, follow the procedure they are given and connect these water lines for the property owners. The responsibility is huge! The connections for the water pipe/tubing can fail as well as the tubing itself (often when the homeowner pushes the fridge back against a wall and runs over the tubing).
Is there a cure for this problem? Is there a 100% fail safe procedure? If so, I need to recommend this to my clients. I sound like an alarmist when I tell people to check their connections every now and then, especially when they move to clean, but your heart could be broken if you have a flood.
The Quilting Realtor
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Why does it always happen when no one is home? I had a client who had a burst pipe on the second floor while they were away on vacation. They came home to 5 feet of water in the basement!
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Hi Wanda - yes, there is an almost 100% fail safe procedure: Turn the water valve to the residence off when leaving for any extended period of time. If there is a well, turn off the circuit breaker to the pump. Drain some of the pressure off the line before leaving the house for vacation. Have someone check the residence periodically also despite all precautions. That is sort of what the prior generations did. Of course it won't work for condos or apartment buildings. (Nothing is 100% fail safe though).
We've seen several horror stories with ice makers also and just recently had a buyer who did not want an ice maker in her home under any condition for those same reasons. I'm not a fan of them either.