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Old 01-01-2016, 07:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Jimmydoodlebug View Post
I went to Home Depot to buy a new refrigerator and they told me that since I have the plastic push/pull water shutoffs in my house they will not install a new water supply line. They said the existing supply line, a nylon reinforced plastic line, is squeezed on to the shutoff. They said the homeowner has to change it while they stand there and watch. I suppose the push/pull plastic shutoffs have a reputation for breaking, although they didn't say that.

If you ran into this problem, how did you deal with it?

It's probably prudent to change the 10 year old supply line, but did anyone just leave it in place?

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Hi jimmydoodlebug

I had that same conversation with Home Depot when we decided to rid ourselves of the kitchen appliances installed . They gave us the same sad story. So we purchased our appliances elsewhere and viola they had absolutely no problems attaching the new water supply line.

However I did have one plastic connection line under my master toilet leak so we replaced the entire valve. We considered replacing them all (9) but it gets expensive . We may well do it in 2016 to be on the safe side.

We also replaced our carbon dioxcide alarm and fire alarms twice. We bought in 2006