You Can Do It

One of my readers (LL) left this comment on my previous blog post: "I'm thinking you are a very lucky man to know about all these things and how to get the job done - if plan A doesn't work - you're smart and have a Plan B. I think it's so cool to be so knowledgeable about so many subjects."

Yes, it's very cool. Women are falling all over me, trying to get me to do cool things like connect their icemakers to a water line.

And that reminds me of when I bought my last refrigerator. For fifty dollars extra, I could get an icemaker. So of course I paid the fifty dollars, and I've used the icemaker every day I've owned that fridge. But the icemaker didn't come installed in the fridge. I had to install it.

Which means I had to hook it up to my water line.

So I went to Lowe's (where I purchased the fridge), to the appliance department, and found a salesperson. I said something like, "I need to hook up my refrigerator's icemaker to a water line."

So the salesman got me a kit containing all the parts I would need. I took it home, looked at the parts, looked at my fridge, and looked at the water line in the basement. I had to drill a hole through the kitchen's baseboard and through the wall in order to access the basement stairwell, and then I had to install the line tap valve onto the cold water line. It didn't require anything more than an adjustable wrench. At the other end, I installed a "kit" onto the back of the fridge and ran the water line to it. Then I installed the icemaker in the freezer, which was simple to do, requiring only a screwdriver. After that, I had ice, automatically. 

Years later, I remodeled the kitchen and I had to connect the icemaker's water line to a water line under the kitchen sink. I had already done this job once, so the second time was "no big deal".

Some jobs are so simple that they practically do themselves. It only seems difficult if you've never done itt. Then, it can seem mysterious. But you can do it.  Don't be intimidated.