How to Fix a Refrigerator in 30 Quick Steps

Step 1. Have a fridge that was purchased with the house but came with no user manual.
Step 2. Realize that the ice/water door dispenser doesn't work all that great. (ice comes out sideways as does water)
Step 3. Realize that your 50 plus yr. old house has much more work that is higher up on the list than the fridge, so, fridge waits.
Step 4. After 2 yrs. have the ice maker completely quit making ice.
Step 5. Reach your witts end of cleaning up sideways spilled water and explaning to people, "just grab a bottle water, it isn't working."
Step 6. Call Sears and schedule a repair.
Step 7. Have Sears repair man arrive and explain the problem.
Step 8. Answer "no" real nicely when he asks you have you changed the filter lately.
Step 9. Explain to him that the fridge came with no manual or instructions so it really isn't your fault for not knowing that the filter was causing most of your problems. Then come to the conclusion that he just thinks your an idiot for not knowing to do this.
Step 10. Have repair man change filter and check the water valves.
Step 11. Repair man tells you your secondary water valve is shot and he can come back with one in a week and charge you another service call and fix it.
Step 12. Get repair man to instruct you on how to change a water valve; pay him your arm and leg for the service fee, filter and send him on his way.
Step 13. Call your husband, pause, scrunch your eyebrows together, get that nice voice back, and tell him what you just paid; all for a big sweaty man to come change the water filter that would have been $20 at your local Sears.
Step 14. Get geared up to change the secondary water valve yourself.
Step 15. Load up 2 kids, go to the Parts and Appliance store and buy a water valve.
Step 16. Tell yourself that between a a Bachelors degree in Finance, Int'l Business and a minor in Spanish surely you and your siginicant other can do this.
Step 17. Pull out fridge and unhook water valve. See below!



Step 18. Unhook water valve and simply slide on your new and improved water valve.
Step. 19. Realize the valve doesn't fit. Perfect.
Step 20. Let the wires dangle for the weekend while you await going back to the store that doesn't open until Monday. Don't forget to put towles down as leaking will occur. see below


Step 21. Pile your 2 kids back in the car, go back to store, have your 3 yr. old fall out of the car in the parking lot and scrape her arm until it is bleeding everwhere.
Step 22. Drag kids in store while 3 old, rough looking men look at you like you must be lost.
Step 23. Explain your water valve problem.
Step 24. Have them give you an idiot face and tell you to simply cut the ends off to make it fit.
Step 25. Say lots of nice words in your head and wonder how much your sanity is worth compared to a service call.
Step 26. Snap ends off of the wire and slip into the valve.
Step 27. Put more towles down because guess what, STILL LEAKING! see below.


Step 28. Reach the end of your torn up rope and make lots of empty threats to your husband about how you will get a new fridge if something isn't done soon because this just isn't on your list of Stay At Home Mommy duties, storm out of the room being very overdramatic.
Step 29. Have husband now go to Parts and Appliances and give step by step instructions on what our problem is only to realize that you just didn't cut the wires off completely straight.
Step 30. Have husband come in, cut wires straight this time, assemble valve with no problems and wonder what was so hard?


Yep, all this just for some ice water!