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My Sub-Zero, aged 1998, is leaking from the ice maker. How do I turn this off ASAP while I wait for a technician on Monday?
Hello,You can turn off from the tap uder the sink. This would turn off the water supply of the unit.Trace the water line that goes in to the unit from your sink. There should be a shut off valve there.
Experience: been working with refs, fridge, washers. dryers. dishwashers, microwaves for the past 12 yrs .
But the refrigerator is working and I do not want that to stop working. Will turning off the water supply stop the refrigerator from working?
Nope. it will just stop the ice maker from making ice and stop the water dispenser if you have a water dispenser.The unit will only stop working if you un plug it from the power outlet.
How do I find it?
If you pull the unit forward, you will find a water line coming from your unit going to the cabinet or wall of your kitchen. Trace this line backwards towards under the sink and you will find it terminate on your cold water line. As it terminate there, you would have a shut off valve whivh you can manually turn off.You may try to look under your sink first with out pulling the fridge and you might find a tap connected to your cold water line. This could be your fridge water line.
I have turned off every tap under the sink and it is still leaking. Is there another place it could be?
You can wait for a couple of minutes. The pressure could still be high and it it just relieving it to the leak in the ice maker. Eventually, the leak would stop if ever you have close the source to the fridge.
Hello,The tap I am refering to could be like this saddle tee. It is attached to your cold water line under the sink.
It is still leaking
Ok.Now, you have to pull the unit off the place where it is and look from the back where the water lines went trough. Trace it backwards till you find the shut off valve.The house could be set up and prepaired a water line to the refrigerator and did not use a saddle tee to tap from the cold water line under the sink. So it could have a separate water shut off valve that could be at the back wall where the fridge is located.