Installing An Under The Sink Water Filter

When we purchased our new refrigerator over 2 years ago, we opted for a french door, bottom freezer in Titanium finish.  Titanium looks like stainless steel but is much easier to clean and doesn’t show the fingerprints as much.  We decided against the in door water and ice maker.   It is a space hog and we opted for the extra inside space instead.  I mean seriously, look at that space.  That’s room for a whole lot of yogurt stock pile. Oh this is just an image, my fridge is not that clean, nor that color coordinated!

I attached a filter for the ice maker and we just use the Brita filter pitchers for our water.  Well with soccer season, summer and our healthier lifestyles, we’ve been drinking more water than the poor pitcher can keep up with.  So after some discussions we decided to install a faucet at the sink for filtered water.   We originally had a pull out nozel sprayer on the right side but we never use it.  The plan was to install something like this in its place:

So, we headed off to Home Depot with our coupon in hand.  We purchased a GE for $117 and used a $20 off $100 competitor coupon.  After a lengthy discussion with the Home Depot associate, he confirmed the box had everything we needed.  SHA!  I should have known better.  First of all, the directions were horrible plus, I usually don’t use directions.  Plumbing is somewhat new to me so I wanted to make sure I was doing it right.  There was a piece that I like to call a splitter, that connected the cold water to the filter.  This is made of plastic, and it broke upon first try of installation.  I also needed to cap off the hose where the sprayer used to be connected.  Oh did I mention I started this at 6 pm?  Off to Home Depot again at 8:30 pm.  Before I left, I took a picture of the plumbing under the sink. It’s always easier to show someone what you need than to explain that you need a thingy to go on the thing that used to have the thingy attached to it!  I also took the old hose so I could get the right size attachment.   Once there, I learned they do not carry the broken piece I had so they were nice enough to take one out of a box and mark that box out of inventory.  Then, I already had the cap piece I needed, but again for clarification, I asked and they told me it was the wrong one and gave me the right piece.  This is where my, “it was almost 9 o’clock and I was ready to be done with this project” part of me took over.  I accepted the sales person was right and I made my purchase.

I got home, and the piece they swapped for me was TOO big.  I replaced the splitter and finished for the night.  I went to bed with no running water in the kitchen.  Saturday morning at 7am, I was at Home Depot to exchange my piece.  This time, I opened the bag (in the store) and connected it to the hose I brought with me, to be sure it fit.  Home again, home again jiggity-jig!  Success!

Here is a picture of my beautiful new filtered water faucet and the under cabinet filters.

I do believe it was this filtered water that helped my son rock at his soccer game today!  Just sayin’