How To Turn Off Samsung Refrigerator Water Supply

Install the samsung water filter.

How to turn off samsung refrigerator water supply. You should be able to remove the filter without turning off the water supply. It will be either a 3 8 inch or a 1 4 inch pipe made of flexible copper poly or stainless steel. On the back of your refrigerator locate the water supply line for the ice maker and water dispenser. Pull out the refrigerator and follow the water supply line from the fridge to the source.

This water filter is used to remove undesirable particles from your drinking water. Most refrigerators get their water supply from a branch off the cold water line under the kitchen sink. 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. Turn off the supply valve to the ice maker behind the refrigerator.

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

To install the water filter turn the filter knob to the left hand side. Once you locate the refrigerator water line shut off valve pause. You can find the water filter in a samsung refrigerator in the back right corner at the top of the refrigerator. 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.

It takes about 1 4 turn to release the filter. 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 dispersed from the water dispenser. 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.

If the water supply valve is not behind the refrigerator trace the line to beneath the kitchen sink to the small valve. The filtered water is also used to make ice in the refrigerator s ice maker.