Plastic taste in refrigerator filtered water dispenser (and ice)
rkl01
I purchased a Kenmore refrigerator 1 year ago. Both the water and ice
have a plastic taste. I have replaced the filter (running at least 2-3
gallons out of the dispenser after changing it) at least 3 times in the
past 8 months. It seems to taste fine for a few hours after changing the
filter, then the plastic taste is back. My faucet water does not have
this taste, so I know it has something to do with the refrigerator. I
called Sears and they sent a technician who replaced 4 parts and said
if that didn't fix the problem, there really was nothing else he could
replace that could be causing the problem. After he replaced the parts
and we again ran a couple gallons of water, it tasted fine. By the next
morning the plastic taste was back - both ice and water.
I have called Sears again and they are sending the same technician
back. Now it's up to him to see if he can taste the plastic taste in
the water. If he can't, they're telling me I'm pretty much out of luck.
If he can, he can call his manager and the manager has the authority to
do something about the situation - even if that involves replacing the
refrigerator.
I brought some of the water to work and had 6 people taste it. 4 out of
the 6 noticed a definite bad after taste, though they didn't really
pinpoint it to plastic. I guess if the service tech can't taste it I
will have purchased a refrigerator with water and ice dispenser that I
can't use. I can't stand the taste of the water and the ice ruins the
taste of anything I put it in.
Any suggestions as to what else may be causing this? It uses a PUR
filter.
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rkl01
BobK207
IMO the filter is not the issue, it's the plastic components in the
system.
How much water / ice do you use on a daily basis? The more you use the
sooner the plastic taste will leave.
Eventually the plastic taste will leave the system but it will take a
long time.
What kind of plastic tube (hopefully copper) did they plumb the water
to the fridge with?
cheers
Bob
Humble Tom
wrote:
Is the piping feeding the fridge's water supply plastic?
tom @ www.YourMoneyMakingIdeas.com
VV
and OSH folks, we figured out the smell is coming from the Water
reservoir behind the Tray in the refridge. This hooks to the filler
valve at one end and the dispenser tube at the other end. I did remove
the reservoir and could smell the same smell. I would be running baking
Soda water through it as it would remove any strong odours. Hopefully
the smell would go away. If anyone has a better solution please share.
However replacing this wont really take off the odour as you have seen
and Sears also suggested the same.
On Jan 24, 1:00 pm, Humble Tom <P...@here.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:57:32 +0000, rkl01 <rkl01.2kx...@diybanter.com>
> >filter.Is the piping feeding the fridge's water supply plastic?
>
> tom @www.YourMoneyMakingIdeas.com- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text -
mm
>I am having the same issue. After various trouble shooting with Sears
>and OSH folks, we figured out the smell is coming from the Water
>reservoir behind the Tray in the refridge. This hooks to the filler
>valve at one end and the dispenser tube at the other end. I did remove
>the reservoir and could smell the same smell. I would be running baking
>Soda water through it as it would remove any strong odours. Hopefully
>the smell would go away. If anyone has a better solution please share.
I'm just guessing, but if you can take the part(s) out, I'm wondering
if sunlight or heat (not much, say 80 or 90 degrees) might speed up
the disappearance of the smell. Perhaps water is something like an
insulator when it comes to smell? I'm told fish and other sea
creatures can smell, but that might not mean much.
Don't all these plastic things have solvents in them that keep the
plastic flexible? When the last little bit of solvent is gone, is
that when plastic becomes brittle? I've wondered about these things.
Richard J Kinch
> Don't all these plastic things have solvents in them that keep the
> plastic flexible?
You mean a plasticizer. No, not all, it depends on the species of plastic.
The cloudy stiff plastic tubing and reservoirs in the refrigerators are
polyethylene, which does not use a plasticizer, and should not be a source
of odor. Like milk cartons but heavier.
However, vinyl tubing, the soft, clear type, sometimes reinforced with
woven fiber, contains a plasticizer, and often the stuff sold at Home Depot
(etc.) is not for potable water, and will carry a strong chemical odor or
taste from the plasticizer. Like a cheap garden hose.
rkl01
Richard J Kinch Wrote:
> mm writes:
> -
> Don't all these plastic things have solvents in them that keep the
>
> You mean a plasticizer. No, not all, it depends on the species of
> plastic.
>
> The cloudy stiff plastic tubing and reservoirs in the refrigerators are
>
> polyethylene, which does not use a plasticizer, and should not be a
> source
> of odor. Like milk cartons but heavier.
>
> However, vinyl tubing, the soft, clear type, sometimes reinforced with
>
> woven fiber, contains a plasticizer, and often the stuff sold at Home
> Depot
> (etc.) is not for potable water, and will carry a strong chemical odor
> or
> taste from the plasticizer. Like a cheap garden hose.
After another service call from Sears yesterday, the tech said it
wouldn't help to replace the water tank because that is just for the
water and I am also getting the same bad taste (plastic) in the ice.
He said they had a meeting about a week ago and were told the
Kenmore/Whirlpool refrigerators were having this problem and there is a
different filter model that I needed. I kept the box from the one I
purchased at Sears in December and showed it to him. He said that was
the old one and the new one I needed was not in the stores yet - so one
is supposed to be sent to me by Sears. The old filter I had was a PUR
9030 and this one is a Mfg # 4396841. He told me because these filters
are mounted under the refrig, the heat around the plastic parts can
cause the taste. So I'm guessing this other filter has a better casing
or something to prevent this. BTW, we do have copper tubing from the
water source to the refrig.
I won't receive the filter for about 8 days, but I'll try it. I'll
post again with the results. Good luck.
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rkl01
Y Agostinho
I don't know if you ever found an answer to your question, but the reason
your ice/water tastes funny isn't the filter, but the water line splitter
in the bottom rear of your refrigerator. Likely the solenoid inside has
gone bad and it makes your water/ice taste funny. Find the model of your
refrigerator and locate a replacement part either on the internet or
through a local appliance store. They're usually less than $60 and it only
takes about 1/2 an hour to change yourself. I ran about a gallon of water
through my door and dumped the first few batches of ice and now both taste
fine.
Alfredo aguiar
Okay. I do not work for Home Depot. You just have not to loose, once you
can take it back to store and have your money back, if what I'm telling
you it's not true. So, that is what I did. First I got a Filter from LG
(*EX$PENSIVE*) my fridge is LG, it taste like pure plastic, terrible,
disgusting. My family was getting water from bottles, even having the
dispenser at the fridge door, Ice? Not even thinking about. Plastic cubes.
So I come to Home Depot and bet on their brand HDX, They have a generic
HDX for any fridge official filter. Guess what? Half a price and the water
don't taste nothing, anything, nada. Pure untasted water. As I said, just
try. You'll thank me.
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Tony944
"Alfredo aguiar" wrote in message
news:56fe1$56dc5041$cf3aab60$23...@news.flashnewsgroups.com...
However up on installation or hookup you must run water for couple gallons
to come through before start using the system and yes water filters are not
chip.
Alfredo aguiar
>
> "Alfredo aguiar" wrote in message
> news:56fe1$56dc5041$cf3aab60$23...@news.flashnewsgroups.com...
> can take it back to store and have your money back, if what I'm telling
> you it's not true. So, that is what I did. First I got a Filter from LG
> (*EX$PENSIVE*) my fridge is LG, it taste like pure plastic, terrible,
> disgusting. My family was getting water from bottles, even having the
> dispenser at the fridge door, Ice? Not even thinking about. Plastic cubes.
> So I come to Home Depot and bet on their brand HDX, They have a generic
> HDX for any fridge official filter. Guess what? Half a price and the water
> don't taste nothing, anything, nada. Pure untasted water. As I said, just
> try. You'll thank me.
> --
> I do not have LG but I do not think that in water filter is much
difference
> However up on installation or hookup you must run water for couple gallons
> to come through before start using the system and yes water filters are
not
> chip.
after it do not work, a took away A LOT MORE than what the filter
instructions recommend, 3 to 5 times more, the plastic taste just did not
go away. On the HDX filter I did not get more the 3 gallons. I come here
to report because I felt amazed. I got that filter just a try. I was
really thinking to exchange the hole fridge interior tubes to cooper.
Thanks I stop by Home Depot and got their filter.
What taste like plastic is the filter, not the fridge. Or at list, the
official filter don't take the taste out!!!
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Patricia Goffin
My refrigerator water dispenser is doing the same thing. After a few mths its
is now tasting like pastic. We even installed a water softener and still it
tastes like plastic. Did they figure out the problem? Ive have NEVER had this
problem and my water straiggt from the sink does not taste like that but the
clorine is so strong we cant drink it from the facet. Back to buying water
bottles. Waste of money and the enviroment suffers!!! Thank you!!!
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BOB
I REPLACED , ON THE BOTTOM THAT SOLENOID / SPLITTER YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
STILL HAS BAD TASTE
SUSIE SANCHEZ
Not 2018 and I'm having the same problem. Did anyone figure it out???
Jeff
Hi most new refrigerators don't come with the filter installed. There is a
bypass cartridge from the factory in the spot the filter goes in. It looks
kinda like s filter. If you haven't removed this, that's where i would start.
Rod GILLIS
Same problem here. Purchased new Amana (Whirlpool) fridge with cold water /
ice maker. Great for first year, then within 2 mts. after 1st filter change we
noted plastic taste on water which over the next 3 months got so bad we
couldn't drink the water. Extended warranty people arrived to fix problem.
They put new filter in but plastic taste back next day. They returned a week
later and said it was the feed line connecting to the back of fridge. I told
them this was a new braided stainless steel line that was only 3 weeks old and
couldn't be the problem. It appeared they wanted to blame the problem on
anything except the fridge. They replaced the feed line, next day same plastic
taste. Then they were going to replace all the plastic lines within the f
ridge itself. We are still waiting for them to arrive for this repair. There
is no problem in saying that the cause is inside the fridge. It is not the
filter because we left it out (water/ice dispenser operates w/o filter) so
water should taste like the town water supply, but it doesn't. We can drink
town water but not after going thru fridge. We think the problem is the
quality of the plastic tubing inside fridge. It appears to be stable for a
year but then breaks down and imparts that plastic taste to the water. We
figure that when they put in the new "kit" replacing all the plastic lines
inside, it will last a year and the problem will return. I believe the company
will have to use a higher quality of tubing that doesn't break down in the
short term and start leaching plastic taste into the water going thru it.
drago...@gmail.com
drewU2
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