amiller0521
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Hi everyone, my boyfriend and I are buying a coop and will be gutting and rebuilding the kitchen (with the help of contractors of course) but we have run into a small dilemma. The kitchen in the apartment is a small galley kitchen and in our new layout that we came up with the sink is on one side of the room and the refrigerator is almost directly across the aisle on the other side. The problem now comes with trying to find a way to hook up the water line to the refrigerator for the ice maker/water filter on the fridge. We were trying to come up with ways to solve this problem but could only think of two.
1. We are installing a floating engineered bamboo floor over top of the vinyl floor already there, so we thought there may be a way to slide it between the two layers by cutting a way for it through the padding in between. But were unsure if this may be a problem because of pressure on the floor possibly putting pressure on the line or the thickness of the water line being too large to fit between.
2. Running the line from the sink behind the cabinets to the end of the kitchen, across the wall/radiator, and behind the cabinets on the other side to the refrigerator but this option would require the line being visible, going in front of a radiator, and being along a wall that connects to the outside (not sure of how easy it is for these lines to freeze even if they are technically inside).
Before it is asked, it is not possible to have the sink and fridge on the same side of the kitchen because the sink and the stove are already set next to each other on one side (we will not be moving these because it would require removing dry wall and moving plumbing which I'm not even sure if the coop would allow) and there is no room to fit the fridge comfortably in the space that is left on that wall. Also, in case you were wandering there is no other plumbing on the other side of the wall that the refrigerator would be against, our living room is there.
I'd really appreciate any insight on this and also was wandering if anyone could tell us which tubing is better for this job, copper or braided, and which size since we are finding conflicting information online. Thanks.
1. We are installing a floating engineered bamboo floor over top of the vinyl floor already there, so we thought there may be a way to slide it between the two layers by cutting a way for it through the padding in between. But were unsure if this may be a problem because of pressure on the floor possibly putting pressure on the line or the thickness of the water line being too large to fit between.
2. Running the line from the sink behind the cabinets to the end of the kitchen, across the wall/radiator, and behind the cabinets on the other side to the refrigerator but this option would require the line being visible, going in front of a radiator, and being along a wall that connects to the outside (not sure of how easy it is for these lines to freeze even if they are technically inside).
Before it is asked, it is not possible to have the sink and fridge on the same side of the kitchen because the sink and the stove are already set next to each other on one side (we will not be moving these because it would require removing dry wall and moving plumbing which I'm not even sure if the coop would allow) and there is no room to fit the fridge comfortably in the space that is left on that wall. Also, in case you were wandering there is no other plumbing on the other side of the wall that the refrigerator would be against, our living room is there.
I'd really appreciate any insight on this and also was wandering if anyone could tell us which tubing is better for this job, copper or braided, and which size since we are finding conflicting information online. Thanks.
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