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Noticed a huge difference in ice maker output after I swapped the filter
I have a Frigidaire fridge I've been servicing for a regular client in Phoenix, and their ice maker was barely making a tray a day for the last month. I finally got around to replacing the old water filter last Tuesday and now it's cranking out a full bin every 4 hours. Has anyone else seen that big a jump from just a filter swap, or is it just this specific model?
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jessica_ross3824d ago
That full bin every 4 hours sounds nuts... I swapped my filter once and my ice maker went from 'maybe tomorrow' to 'here's a handful if you're nice' haha. I swear I thought my fridge was just being dramatic about the old filter, like it was getting revenge for me ignoring it for six months. Turns out the filter was practically a brick of calcium and the ice maker was basically starving. I can only imagine what your client's water bill looked like before... probably paying for all that water just to get a sad little ice cube every hour.
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emma_clark23d ago
Oh the "brick of calcium" part got me because same thing happened to my parents' fridge. They went like 14 months without changing theirs and when we finally pulled it out it was basically a rock with some plastic around it. But I gotta push back a little on the water bill thing. I actually looked into this because my dad was convinced his bill was going down after the change and turns out ice makers are pretty efficient even when they're struggling. The water bill difference is usually tiny, like maybe a dollar or two a month. The real cost is more about the fridge working harder (compressor running longer) and the filter getting so clogged it could actually crack the housing. That's the expensive repair nobody talks about.
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