Is there a way to split/run an existing washing machine water line to a fridge (pic related)?

Is there a way to split/run an existing washing machine water line to a fridge (pic related)?

I want the garage to have a working fridge with ice maker/water.

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Also, that's the only water line I have nearby. The garden water line is not close by.

    Thanks for any suggestions guys

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Forget tapping the washer. Find a cold water line in the basement, add a saddle tap to it, then run your supply tubing to the garage. Cheap and easy.

      make sure you install a proper water filter for icemaking equipment when doing this. have to make sure its rated for ice making so the water minerals dont cause problems.. cause when you cool or freeze water you dont want scale building up inside the icemaker due to the crap in city water. also dont want random water line crud in your ice.

      Most refrigerators have built in filters now.

      They all have lead. Never seen one without. Also they often leak as the valves break down.

      All brass fittings in the U.S. made after 2014 are required to be lead free by law.

      https://i.imgur.com/TgUnWpM.jpg

      An alternative is to use a bottled water pump, which has the added benefit that you can use pre-filtered water for your ice maker.

      Bottled water isn't filtered.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        tap valves are notorious for developing leaks. those shitty rubber seals dont last forever. best to just properly tap off the water line with a more permanent solution than the unlicensed basement handyman method of using piercing tap valves.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >best to just properly tap off the water line with a more permanent solution than the unlicensed basement handyman method of using piercing tap valves.
          Yes, much better to cobble together some convoluted adapter and tap the line off of the washing machine instead of doing it the right way.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            thats what I said stupid. thanks for pointing out the obvious

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    You should be able to tee off of that line for water for your fridge. You can either tee off before the washer valve inside the wall and run another line in the wall to your fridge, or what i imagine you are wanting to really do is just tee off after the valve and run a small line for the ice maker. Those hoses going to the washing machine are standard garden hose thread so you will have to find a tee fitting that would work with that.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      thanks. so something like this splitter + a reducer for the fridge water hose line?

      are fridge water lines usually a standard size?

      sorry if it sounds like i want to be spoon-fed but i am new to plumbing and shit. I know the terminology because i work in chromatography

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        forgot pic

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Be me
        >Get sweet new fridge with built in ice maker
        >No water line, not about to frick with plumbing
        >Call plumber, expect like $150 bill
        >They want to tee off of my nearby water heater, $500
        >LOL
        >LMAO
        >Nigrig this off of my washing machine for like $30
        Like said, it's not hard. Try to get lead free stuff, but even if you don't any built in filter SHOULD remove that. Also, that pinch doohickey in the back isn't my doing, don't (you) me.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          They all have lead. Never seen one without. Also they often leak as the valves break down.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            There are some that advertise themselves as lead free at least, but you never know. I don't care much about the valves on a $15 piece I can replace by hand, but if you consider that an issue there are other options as well.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          mmm lead

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Pretty much that. Plumbing is easy, it's basically like legos. Just go to your local hardware store and fish through all the bins for fittings, tees, etc. until you've assembled something that does the job you're looking to do.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Uhh you know that "pinch doohickey" (otherwise known as a piercing valve) in the back would have been a suitable place to run your fridge line off of?

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            I forgot the name, but I know what it does. It didn't work; the guy before me couldn't get it to puncture after scraping a gash in the wall and neither could I, so instead of putting a hole in my pipe I adapted. Plus, the seals on those also fail, and the replacement would be more annoying than swapping out my work if it fails.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            I forgot the name, but I know what it does. It didn't work; the guy before me couldn't get it to puncture after scraping a gash in the wall and neither could I, so instead of putting a hole in my pipe I adapted. Plus, the seals on those also fail, and the replacement would be more annoying than swapping out my work if it fails.

            We had one at work that decided to leak at 4 in the morning, destroyed a computer and printer.

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    make sure you install a proper water filter for icemaking equipment when doing this. have to make sure its rated for ice making so the water minerals dont cause problems.. cause when you cool or freeze water you dont want scale building up inside the icemaker due to the crap in city water. also dont want random water line crud in your ice.

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    careful op, theres a swedish guy or whatever on this board thinks you should run a separate line back to your manifold behind the walls in a conduit tube in pex rather than just tee off a few feet away in open air because its much easier or something

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    did you get it to work op?

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    An alternative is to use a bottled water pump, which has the added benefit that you can use pre-filtered water for your ice maker.

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Kinda wild to see this many posts and no one wants to tell him he can just use a saddle valve.

    Why do you guys hate free time so much? Finish your projects and find something better to do goddamn

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I need a new one of these washer hot/cold boxes, whats a good reliable brand? Any plumbers on here who know what's good?

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