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I had a repair guy looking at the back of my fridge to figure out why I wasn't getting water from the door dispenser. He unplugged some lines and checked them, and finally fixed the problem by unfreezing some ice that was in the lines with a portable heater.
My office is my finished basement. One day I looked up at the ceiling and there was a 2 by 2 bubble of paint hanging there. I poked my finger into it and water just poured out all over the floor. The very first thing I did was checked behind the fridge, because someone had just recently worked back there and it was also directly above where the leak was downstairs. But there was no water back there. The hardwood floor was bone dry.
After not finding the leak myself, I called a plumber. He couldn't find the mysterious leak either, even after making a couple of holes in some walls, which I gave permission to do because I really wanted to find this leak. He failed to find the leak and charged me $500 for two hours of his time. It was fucking robbery, but I paid it.
On the very same day the plumber came, later that evening I filled a water bottle from the fridge door and went downstairs to my office. I noticed the drip had started up again because i could hear it dripping in the pan outside my office. I went upstairs, pulled out the fridge but there was zero water back there. What the fuck?
I got my wife to dispense some water as I watched and saw the leak. There was a junction box for various hoses at the bottom of the fridge and water was spurting out. The crazy thing was that the floor instantly dried up after the water seeped under the baseboard. The laminate floor is water resistant, and my kitchen floor is slightly slanted from one end to the other so the water just rolled right under the baseboard without any evidence it had been there.
So the asshole repairman who was messing with the lines had failed to re-insert a fitting properly. I thought about calling the appliance store who sent him to ask for the $500 I spent on a plumber, but I figured it wouldn't be worth the effort. And there was no fucking way I was going to take anyone to court. I just consider it a life lesson.
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