When you press the paddle and nothing comes out, the culprit is usually simple. A dispenser that gives no water at all is most often locked, blocked by a filter that isn't seated or doesn't fit, cut off at the supply valve, or frozen in the door line. All four...
A leaking refrigerator water filter is almost always a sealing problem between the cartridge and the filter head. The usual culprits are a protective cap left on the new filter, a torn or missing O-ring, a cartridge that isn't fully locked, or a filter that doesn't match your fridge. If...
A stuck refrigerator water filter usually lets go once you take the water pressure off and use the right release motion. Close the water supply, dispense a few glasses to drain pressure from the line, then turn, push or pull the cartridge the way your model is designed to release,...
The Whirlpool FreshFlow air filter is a small carbon cartridge that soaks up food odors inside the fresh food section of your fridge. On most models it clips into a housing on the back wall of the refrigerator compartment, it should be replaced about every six months, and the swap...
Kenmore has never built its own refrigerators. Kenmore fridges are made under contract by major appliance companies, mostly Whirlpool, LG and Frigidaire (Electrolux), and the three digits before the dot in your model number usually tell you which one built yours. A model starting with 106 is typically a Whirlpool,...
Bad-tasting refrigerator ice almost always comes from one of three places. The usual causes are cubes that have sat too long and absorbed freezer odors, a dirty ice bin, or a water filter that's past its useful life, and dumping the ice, washing the bin and fitting a fresh filter...
If your fridge takes ages to fill a glass, the water filter is the first thing to check. An aging filter is the most common cause of a slow refrigerator water dispenser, because the sediment it traps gradually narrows the path water has to squeeze through. If the filter is...
The GE XWFE is the newer version of the XWF, with an RFID chip that talks to the refrigerator. GE says the XWFE is backward compatible, so it works in fridges built for the XWF, but the XWF is not forward compatible with newer models that require the XWFE. In...
Your Frigidaire Gallery refrigerator is flashing a filter light, the ice tastes a little off, and you are holding a new cartridge you hope is the right one. Learning how to replace a Frigidaire Gallery refrigerator water filter takes a few minutes. The part that trips people up is knowing...
You open the fridge, see the filter light glowing, and realize you are not sure where the cartridge lives or which one to buy. To learn how to replace Maytag refrigerator water filter cartridges, find the filter in the upper right corner inside the fridge or behind the left side...
