Leak Almost Fixed

The mobile Tech arrived a few minutes before noon yesterday and got to work on trying to locate the source of our refrigerator leak. I had already taken the back panels off the refrigerator outside and I got the ladder ready so he could inspect as much of the back of the unit as possible. There has been a slow leak for some time in a splice of the tubing that is part of the ice maker system that I was aware of, and that is seen from the outside back panel. The water leaking into the kitchen was coming from a different location (it seemed) and I assumed that it was a different source. That leak outside was so small that I was going to try to repair that one myself. The Tech inspected the whole line and any other location that he could see and concluded that the tubing was the culprit. Either the splice was leaking for so long that the water accumulated somewhere under the refrigerator and is spilling into the kitchen, or there is another, hidden leak in the line that cannot be seen. Anyway, I shut down the water source to the refrigerator which is a valve under our kitchen sink and the leak stopped. If I had any sense at all, I would have cut off the water supply a week ago and done without the ice maker and drinking water dispenser. It just never occurred to me to do that. Of course, if I had done that, there wouldn't have been any dripping and the Tech would not have been able to discover the source of the leak.

After working for about an hour and a half on the problem he decided to replace the entire line of tubing. That will be a task that he is returning today to complete, since he didn't have any of that tubing in his truck. Also, there is a problem with the drain inside the refrigerator - missing a part - and there is another problem with the fans - not working - that are located in the back of the refrigerator to recirculate air around the coils. He needs to order those parts and return a third time to install those. The estimate for all the work is around $150, plus parts, so it doesn't seem too bad. We'll see how close he comes to his estimate.

This activity with the refrigerator problem has pretty much dictated the schedule for our off days. Josie will do some laundry this morning while I entertain the Tech once again. It warmed up into the 90's again yesterday and the humidity returned. Maybe it will be a short term thing. We are watching the path of the hurricane (Irene) on the news and it doesn't look good for the North Carolina coast.  We will probably get some rain from this hurricane. New York newscasters are all commenting on how the city over reacted to the earthquake and how the westerners are poking fun at the city. The storm may, unfortunately, give them something to really talk about as Long Island is in the path of the storm, so we hope the storm doesn't result in any major damage.

We may be getting some rain even before the hurricane effect hits us as it is very cloudy and appears ready to dump some rain at any time. I hope we get the refrigerator work gets done before the rain arrives...