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

Use air to blow out the lines. There's probably a drain valve at the edge of the slide, to speed up clearing the fridge lines. Set the ice maker to build cubes last, use the glass filler for the bulk of the clearing.

ENG2242 wrote: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,Davidshould be in your owner's manual but this is how I do it. I'm assuming you use the pink RV anti-freeze.- empty fresh water tank- let icemaker run until no ice is produced- run RV anti-freeze through the coach like you normally would.- continue to run the ice maker until you see pink slush- turn off the ice maker. on ours I raise the bail wire.- power off the fridge.- I leave the fridge/freezer doors cracked open to reduce mold.

I have a Samsung residential refrigerator in my 5er. I winterized it 2 days ago. The last item I winterized was the ice maker in the refrigerator. So, here's how my resources and a bit of compromise on my part did it.First, I winterized everything with the RV antifreeze Pink Stuff and waited to do the ice maker last. On my Montana High Country 375FL, the refrigerator is in one of the slides. There is a small water line that runs under the slide (outside) from the inside underbelly of the camper. At that junction there is a connection. With Antifreeze still under pressure from the water pump and the tube in the gallon jug, I loosened that junction and let the clear water spew until it turned pink. Then I tightened the connection back up.Inside the camper, where that small line comes through the floor, there is an on-off valve with a connection for an even smaller line that actually runs to the refrigerator.I turned that valve off and then unhooked the smaller line that ran to the refrigerator. With a cup, I put the cup under the open end and turned the valve back on slowly, and after a cup of clear water, the pink stuff appeared. I let just a bit more flow and then closed off the valve and reconnected the line going to the refrigerator.Now I knew the clear water had only about 5 feet of tubing before it was filled with antifreeze pink stuff.Following directions from YouTube and my manual I found on line, on the bottom side of the ice maker is a small reset, or recycle button. When pushing this button, the tray dumps, turns back upright, and then fills with water. I pushed the button about 10 times, repeating over and over, catching the dumped water in the ice tray. After about the 10th time, good pink antifreeze started filling the small ice try.It was then I turned that on-off valve (inside the camper) to the off position so no more antifreeze would feed into the ice maker.I then pushed the button one more time to dump the final bit of antifreeze into that ice bucket and because the valve was off, no more antifreeze could flow into the ice maker.We are still using the refrigerator, but the water pump is off, the fresh water tank is empty, the system is winterized with pink stuff, and ice maker is now winterized and the water line going to it is off.When I un-winterize, I'll do the same thing again. I'll unwinterize everything and do that line to the ice maker last. I'll bleed the antifreeze at those two connection points again, and then just keep feeding clear water through the ice maker by pressing that button over and over again until it's flushed good. It took longer to do the ice maker than running the antifreeze through everything else combined on my 5er. It's something you simply cannot rush. Find the manual trigger button on your ice maker and just keep pushing it, until the pink stuff starts flowing.

We have a Samsung RF18. Run pink until it enters the ice tray. The RF18 has a button to cycle the ice maker.

I would never allow my ice maker to fill with anti-freeze.Use air pressure to blow the lines clean. If you can't jumper the water solenoid, keep air pressure on the water inlet till the ice maker goes through a "harvest cycle" which is the only time the water valve is open for a few seconds. You could also take the output line of the water valve loose and gravity will siphon the water out. While you're at it, take the inlet line loose and blow the water out of it. Leave both lines disconnected for the winter - maybe put a piece of cloth over them held in place with a rubberband so nothing crawls in there. Once the line is blown out, there should be a shut off valve in it somewhere you can turn off and THEN fill the rest of the system with your pink stuff if desired. I stopped using the pink stuff years ago and started blowing all the lines out after bypassing my empty water heater with my 2hp air compressor. I blow each faucet until nothing comes out and then move to the next. Every faucet, every shower head, the toilet and the toilet sprayer. That way, there is nothing to flush out when I resume using the RV. I like this system much better than any method I've every tried and I started RVing in the early 70s.

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Edd505
Explorer
Nov 11, 2019
Whats to stop you from installing a shut off in the water line?
dougrainer
Nomad
Nov 11, 2019
IF your refer has a built in filter, the filter will remove the PINK in the Antifreeze and you will see clear water. Do NOT know if this degrades the operation and freeze point of the Antifreeze. Doug
mgirardo
Explorer
Nov 11, 2019
We have a GE Residential Fridge with an ice maker only. I have read online and watched videos for other refrigerators that have a button or a solenoid that can be jumped to force the ice maker to demand water, but there is nothing in the owners manual about either and I haven't been able to find one looking at the fridge.

Anyway, what I do is just winterize the rest of the RV, then with a mostly full bottle of antifreeze, I just leave the pump on with the suction tube still in the bottle. I leave the fridge on and wait. The first tray of cubes to come out are usually pink ice cubes, then eventually, it'll be mostly slush coming out. Once it is all slush, I know all the water is out and I am done.

When it comes time to de-winterize, we usually wait a few days of making ice cubes, throwing them out as they are made. Then after a few days, all the anti-freeze taste is gone.

-Michael
ENG2242
Explorer
Nov 12, 2019
Thanks guy’s, done.
joebedford
Nomad II
Nov 12, 2019
My residential fridge has a water reservoir for chilled water. It's not on the ice tray circuit. Don't you have to winterize that too?

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