How to winterize residential refrigerator??
I have a residential refrigerator with water connection. Suggestions on how to winterize it. I opened up the back panel and could not find any instructions or valves. Thanks guy’s, David
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I would do one of three things.
1 Remove water line (Winterize it as you do rest of RV) and cycle the Ice Maker manually Allowing it to drain back due to gravity. YOu can also disconnect and remove the solenoid and either power it for less than 1 minute and blow it out or take it indoors to the warm spot. (Don't forget where you hid it for the winter)
2: Hook up air and cycle and let it blow out into ice tray
3: Eventually the line from solenoid to ice tray splits and makes a mel of a hess spraying water all over the outside compartment... When that happened to me I pulled the beast and .. Well.. Did not bother replacing it when we re-did the cooling unit.. I use a "Counter top" model now days.
On edit. And glad I am of that counter top unit (it makes up to 26 Pounds of Ice a day) as when the cooling unit failed it was 2.5 wees of no fridge. But I do have a good old poly foam "Colman Cooler" (Ice chest) Genuine coleman brand at that.. And that ICe maker kept it in ice till the fridge was ready to refill.. So the only food I had to throw out..... Should have been tossed long time ago.
1 Remove water line (Winterize it as you do rest of RV) and cycle the Ice Maker manually Allowing it to drain back due to gravity. YOu can also disconnect and remove the solenoid and either power it for less than 1 minute and blow it out or take it indoors to the warm spot. (Don't forget where you hid it for the winter)
2: Hook up air and cycle and let it blow out into ice tray
3: Eventually the line from solenoid to ice tray splits and makes a mel of a hess spraying water all over the outside compartment... When that happened to me I pulled the beast and .. Well.. Did not bother replacing it when we re-did the cooling unit.. I use a "Counter top" model now days.
On edit. And glad I am of that counter top unit (it makes up to 26 Pounds of Ice a day) as when the cooling unit failed it was 2.5 wees of no fridge. But I do have a good old poly foam "Colman Cooler" (Ice chest) Genuine coleman brand at that.. And that ICe maker kept it in ice till the fridge was ready to refill.. So the only food I had to throw out..... Should have been tossed long time ago.
