How To Turn Off Samsung Refrigerator Water Supply

If the water supply valve is not behind the refrigerator trace the line to beneath the kitchen sink to the small valve.

How to turn off samsung refrigerator water supply.

Turn off the ice maker to prevent it from cycling on and off. You should find the shut off valve when you arrive at the source. How to turn off the water to your refrigerator. Turn off the supply valve to the ice maker behind the refrigerator.

Since most refrigerators now have an automatic ice maker or a water dispenser it is important to know where to locate the refrigerator water valve in order to properly shut it off during needed repairs. Most refrigerators get their water supply from a branch off the cold water line under the kitchen sink. On the back of your refrigerator locate the water supply line for the ice maker and water dispenser. By gwen sep 16.

I ve tried everything i can think of and i even tapped the filter lightly with a small hammer to try to dislodge any minerals that may have caked onto the filter that would stop it from turning. You should be able to remove the filter without turning off the water supply. It takes about 1 4 turn to release the filter. Once you locate the refrigerator water line shut off valve pause.

A refrigerator water valve is an important component of most refrigerators that have an icemaker water dispenser or both. We have had the refrigerator pulled out away from the wall so we can turn off the water and have been trying to remove the filter for over a week. Install the samsung water filter. The stop valve a ball valve not a saddle valve is placed at the point where the water supply to the fridge begins or somewhere on the line where it is readily accessible not behind the fridge.

It will be either a 3 8 inch or a 1 4 inch pipe made of flexible copper poly or stainless steel. Pull out the refrigerator and follow the water supply line from the fridge to the source. If the filter won t release carefully pull your refrigerator forward and turn off the main water supply. The filtered water is dispersed from the water dispenser.

Prior to shutting off the valve it s a good idea to turn off the icemaker because otherwise it will continue to cycle on. The filtered water is also used to make ice in the refrigerator s ice maker.