The way people handle fridge water line hookups drives me crazy

I keep seeing folks use those cheap plastic push-to-connect fittings on refrigerator ice maker lines and they always fail within a year. Had a call last Tuesday where one blew off at 2 AM and flooded the client's entire basement. Anyone else just stick with copper compression fittings for this?

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caseyw1229d ago

Is it just me or does nobody ever talk about how important it is to actually secure the line to the wall or cabinet before hooking it up? I mean, if that plastic fitting is wiggling around every time someone opens the fridge door or pulls it out to clean, it's gonna stress the connection and pop off eventually. A few cheap zip ties to keep the line from moving would probably save a lot of those basement floods.

quinn_nguyen29d ago

Totally, I had a fridge line pop once and it flooded my garage, took me forever to clean up.