We recently moved into a 10 year old home and purchased a new refrigerator with a water filter and ice maker, only to find that when we hooked it up to the single water line behind the fridge, it dispenses hot water. I don't think the line has been used before now and was wondering if anyone has ever heard of something like this where the line is attached to the water heater instead of the cold water line. What will need to be done to fix this?

hkstroud

Yep. Maybe we should just outlaw water hearters. After all we are bathing in that filty, contaminated,lead infested, hot water.

commonsense

Hospitals are full of alzheimer patients that they have no idea what is caused by, and a myriad of other maladies of unknown cause. I am not suggesting that hot water tanks are full of poison or even harmful contamination, but YOU are saying that they are NOT. Thank you Doctor Plumber.

hkstroud

Your logic is not consistant, if you don't think there are contaminants in the water heater what your objection to making ice from water that has passed thru the heater? Alzheimer's is a genetically inheirted disease

commonsense

My 50 year old house that I haved lived in for 15 years, is piped with copper lines and the solder composition is unknown to me. Just to try to be safer I run my cold tap water for a few minutes before using it for drinking, etc. per numerous "authorities" that recommend that you do that. I had noticed years earlier that the original plumber had tapped the hot water line for the icemaker and I thought he had obviously made a mistake but didn't think anything much of it. Now we learn that hot water is used for cosmetic purposes.
Both of the original owners of this house died with Alzheimer's disease after having consumed hot water tank ice for 35 years. Is this a coincidence? YES it probably is! But I'm not going to say it doesn't have anything to do with it. Whatever caused their disease is unknown.
All this reminds me of when I was renting a room in Lafayette, La. in a lady's house and the contract pest control tech said he was going to spray my room. I said that I would prefer that he didn't. He replied "Oh, it won't hurt you!" No, maybe not now, but how about in 20 or 30 years?
Water from the hot water tank? "Oh, it won't hurt you!" That's a statement that I would be afraid to make even if it is true.

hkstroud

I would say that the previous owner more likely died from Alzheimer's because he used that new fangle electricty to cook with.

commonsense

From Dictionary.com: Alzheimer's disease:

a common form of dementia of unknown cause, usually beginning in late middle age, characterized by memory lapses, confusion, emotional instability, and progressive loss of mental ability.

It does say UNKNOWN doesn't it? It doesn't say of genetic cause does it?

Or maybe electromagnetic waves emanating from 30,000 volt power lines.

commonsense

I hope you're not going to suggest that you're going to go green and recycle that bath water to the ice maker!

hkstroud

yep from my bath to your ice maker.

speedball1

My Gawd!! So that's what's been killing off our older residents here in Florida?
they didn't die from old age. They all had the dreaded "HOT WATER DISEASE from bathing in hot water. OK! THAT"S IT!!! From now on hot water's outlawed in Florida. Commonsense has just solved a medical mystry.
He has discovered the root cause of Alzheimer's disease and I'll bet he's not even a doctor. It's been water heaters all along. Way ta go commnon!! And ya can bet yo bippy that your pipe joints were all soldered with 50/50 solder in that 50 year old house of yours.
I dunno much about "dementia" but it seems to me that if ya can catch it by association I wanna stay away from you. Regards, Tom

commonsense

That retort has already been used.