Just heard another horror story of a refrigerator water connection that sprung a leak and flooded most of a home when the owners were away for a couple of days. When I hear this I conjure up the image of water leaking from a main level fridge, down through a heat vent and onto a big office computer desk, with the computer on the desk.
No wonder a lot of builders will not hook these babies up around here. The appliance delivery people, who are not paid gobs of money, follow the procedure they are given and connect these water lines for the property owners. The responsibility is huge! The connections for the water pipe/tubing can fail as well as the tubing itself (often when the homeowner pushes the fridge back against a wall and runs over the tubing).
Is there a cure for this problem? Is there a 100% fail safe procedure? If so, I need to recommend this to my clients. I sound like an alarmist when I tell people to check their connections every now and then, especially when they move to clean, but your heart could be broken if you have a flood.
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