refrigerator water contains strange particles
UP and Adam
side by side refrigerator.
Old POST
""Lately I noticed when I got water from the refrigerator water
dispenser on the front door, there are tiny white transparency
particles floating inside the water.""
I also have a Whirlpool sbs and have the same white particals floating
in my water. The answer back in 2002 was the tubing in the cooling
line was desintigrading and showing up in the drinking water. My SBS
is a 2003 model and I wonder if this has come up again or if anyone
knows if Whirlpool is fixing this problem.
I just contacted Whirlpool today and it looks like they are going to
give me the old run around.
Brian
>floating in my water.
When water chilled, amount of calcium that can be disolved at 75F is
higher than at 35F. Same applies to other salts and minerals. What you
see could be just result of hard water been chilled.
Appliance Repair Aid
Hi,
Something that may help....
http://www.applianceaid.com/water-resevour.html
jeff.
Appliance Repair Aid
http://www.applianceaid.com/
UP and Adam
Jeff, I just sent a query to your company using your page,
Being a rather new fridge, would it have a cooling box? I can see the
cooling coils but would the 2003 made coils be going bad ?
John/Sue
Appliance Repair Aid
> Being a rather new fridge, would it have a cooling
> box?
?Cooling box?
> but would the 2003 made coils be going bad ?
Sure, anything is possible :(
UP and Adam
What I ment to say was "water resovoir" rather than cooling box.
I don't think my fridge has one? So If I was to replace my cooling
tube, would I end up doing it again in a couple of years again? Why
can't the manufactures make a tube that holds up, that is an important
feature to us, my wife is back to buying bottled water.
To us, it seems like buying a car and having the entire fuel line go
bad after two years. If it happened a lot there would be a recall.
John/Sue
Norminn
When we had a plumber hook up our ice maker, he suggested using hot
water rather than cold. We did.
UP and Adam
white floaters. I did send Whirlpool back an e-mail and got a second
response saying that they would pay to have a repairman come take a
look at it at their expense.
j/s
On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:35:25 GMT, UP and Adam <Ho...@moes.com> wrote:
hiebs
Sounds like scale build up to me flaking off going into the water. I
cant ever recall a plastic tube disintigrating just from water going
through it.
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Appliance Repair Aid
UP and Adam wrote:
> We have been doing test on chilling water but none so far have had
> white floaters. I did send Whirlpool back an e-mail and got a second
> response saying that they would pay to have a repairman come take a
> look at it at their expense.
>
> j/s
G'day,
If you get a chance, post what he/she finds out...should be
interesting!
UP and Adam
When we found the white particles, the filter was way over due for a
change, however the green indicator light never went out or changed. I
may have cause the entire problem right there.
After changing the filter and still having the problem, I ran
household bleach through the system via filling the filter with about
3 shot glasses and did this 2 times. I then let it sit after it was
through the system for about 20 minutes each time. I know, it's not
good for the filter but we weren't going to drink the water anyway.
All this did was to break up the white particles into smaller pieces.
This kind of told me that it was not bacteria and might be lime scale
or something similar or even the tube.
Today, I just cut open the old filter and partly removed the
cartridge, to my surprise; there was a very thin cardboard looking
wrap around it. It is very brittle and looks like it might be a
possible source of the problem.
In any event my wife now says that no matter what anyone does, she
will never drink from that source again. If I change the tubing and
the filter, she will, providing there are no particles. Looks like
that's the way I'm heading.
John
On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:35:25 GMT, UP and Adam <Ho...@moes.com> wrote:
UP and Adam
The mystery of the white particles has been solved. I need to recap a
little so you can see the problem, ME.
The fridge was new in 2003 and it has a green light that will change
color when the filter needs changing. The light never changed and I
guess I lost track of time, whoops.
When I found the white stuff, my first thought was bacteria and I ran
bleach though the system. This only broke up the white stuff into
smaller pieces. Then I thought it was plastic coming apart.
Last weekend, thinking that it must be minerals, I decided to try a
last ditch effort to fix or break it. I removed the filter again and
got some Lime-away. I pre tested the lime-away on the old filter
element and there was no explosion, haha. I put about 3 oz into the
filter and reinstalled it. I ran some through and about every 30
seconds burped the water switch to relieve any pressure build up.
After about 20 minutes I ran about 5 gallons of water through the
system to get clean water. (Tons of junk came out).
I now have perfect water with nothing in it; looking with very high
magnification it is very very clear.
Lesson learned, change the filter often. Things to do, send Whirlpool
an apology.
John
Appliance Repair Aid
Linda
>
> The mystery of the white particles has been solved. I need to recap a
> little so you can see the problem, ME.
> The fridge was new in 2003 and it has a green light that will change
> color when the filter needs changing. The light never changed and I
> guess I lost track of time, whoops.
> When I found the white stuff, my first thought was bacteria and I ran
> bleach though the system. This only broke up the white stuff into
> smaller pieces. Then I thought it was plastic coming apart.
> Last weekend, thinking that it must be minerals, I decided to try a
> last ditch effort to fix or break it. I removed the filter again and
> got some Lime-away. I pre tested the lime-away on the old filter
> element and there was no explosion, haha. I put about 3 oz into the
> filter and reinstalled it. I ran some through and about every 30
> seconds burped the water switch to relieve any pressure build up.
> After about 20 minutes I ran about 5 gallons of water through the
> system to get clean water. (Tons of junk came out).
> I now have perfect water with nothing in it; looking with very high
> magnification it is very very clear.
> Lesson learned, change the filter often. Things to do, send Whirlpool
> an apology.
> John
is molded as one piece except for one place towards the bottom and I don't
see how to separate it into two pieces toput the lime away in
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Scott
I also thought I had bacteria in my water reservoir tubing. I removed filter
to run chlorinated municipal water through fridge with no improvement
(apparently water filter de-chlorinates water before dispensing it). I then
ran high-pressure Clorox bleach solution through water dispenser AND ice-maker
by connecting pressure sprayer to water inlet at back of fridge. As I recall,
several webpage recommend something like 1:10 dilution for disinfection, but I
used 1:4 ratio just to be sure. Regardless, this didn't help. After reading UP
and Adam post, I plan on doing same thing with generic calcium rust cleaner
(i.e. Lime Away); this should NOT be mixed with bleach, but I've already
flushed out the system by reconnecting municipal water. I hope this works for
me and/or helps you.
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ItsJoanNotJoann
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> replying to Linda, Scott wrote:
>
> for full context, visit http://www.homeownershub.com/maintenance/refrigerator-water-contains-strange-particles-39245-.htm
>
>
ELEVEN YEAR OLD POST. Another genius from HomeMoaners
Hub awakes from a coma and has lost his ability to see
dates on posts.
Cool your jets
Maybe other people are finding this site and ok with reading late replies?
Chill.
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Leon
I have a brand new whirlpool 3 door. I flushed 8 - 2gallon bucketsiver 2 days
and still have small white particles floating. Never had this problem with
Frigidaire . This is a piece of shit . sorry I bought it.
Ed Pawlowski
> replying to UP and Adam, Leon wrote:
> I have a brand new whirlpool 3 door. I flushed 8 - 2gallon bucketsiver 2
> days
> and still have small white particles floating. Never had this problem with
> Frigidaire . This is a piece of shit . sorry I bought it.
>
new tubing to the fridge? That could be part of the problem. Is there
a filter? A good deler would be happy to help you.
Michael
Wow, ItsJoanNotJoann. I wanted to read Scott's update. You suck.