How To Replace a Refrigerator Filter | Dad, How Do I? [Video]

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This will vary depending on what model refrigerator you have.
If you don’t have a water dispenser or ice maker, you won’t need to worry about this.
Please don’t waste the water that you run through the new filter.

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hey kids so um
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today i’m going to show you how to
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replace a refrigerator filter this is
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the filter that i use
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um that goes in mine and you know uh
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not all of them are the same so but i
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thought i’d at least walk you through
0:15
what it looks like to change the filter
0:18
mine’s an older refrigerator it’s been
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around for
0:21
i think close to 20 years it’s a kenmore
0:25
cold spot
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is the one that we have but i know that
0:28
there’s a lot of models that are very
0:30
similar to this and so
0:33
i thought i’d at least walk you through
0:34
the steps to to change it
0:36
you know if you don’t have an ice maker
0:38
or a you know a water filter
0:40
water dispenser on your refrigerator
0:42
don’t need to worry about this
0:44
because uh you know you don’t have a
0:45
filter this is for water and then for
0:47
for the ice maker
0:48
but before i show you how to do that i
0:50
have a dad joke for you so
0:52
why was the refrigerator jealous of the
0:55
mini fridge
0:56
because he was just a little cooler ah
0:59
so anyway let’s get started
1:02
okay so this is the way my refrigerator
1:05
works
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um if you have an ice maker and there’s
1:10
a
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there’s a filter that goes uh down at
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the bottom i’ll show you how to do that
1:14
but
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you’ll get this red light and it says
1:17
green filter is okay
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yellow fill low filter life red replace
1:21
filter
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so these filters are actually on a timer
1:24
so it isn’t that it’s reading anything
1:26
saying that the
1:27
the filter is bad they’re basically good
1:30
for six months
1:32
so this thing is telling me i need to
1:34
change it so i’m going to show you how
1:35
to change that and then we’ll reset this
1:36
when we’re done
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okay all right so my refrigerator
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uh filter is actually down at the bottom
1:45
it’s right down here see that
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so i’m just gonna show you how how we
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need to change that
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all right so as you can see it’s a
1:55
little dirty because this is down at the
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bottom of
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your fridge so i’m going to clean all
1:59
that wall and down here it’s a good
2:00
chance to do that but the way this one
2:02
works is you just
2:03
you just take it and you twist it twist
2:06
it to the left
2:07
okay like that okay
2:11
and then you you pull it out
2:14
and it looks like that okay that’s the
2:17
shape of the thing
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there’s a little bit of water still left
2:20
in it okay and then this thing
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here just slips off okay
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you slip that off like that and then let
2:28
me grab the other one
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okay so here here’s the new one it’s all
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wrapped so i’m just taking off the
2:39
taking off the plastic
2:44
okay and then it has the same end like
2:47
we talked about so you want to put this
2:49
guy and just
2:50
slide it right on okay you actually got
2:53
to remove the cap
2:56
don’t forget to do that otherwise you’re
2:57
going to be fighting it okay
2:59
so the cap’s off and i think it goes
3:02
like this if i remember it’s like that
3:04
and then up let’s see here parts like
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that
3:08
let’s see oh it’s like that
3:11
okay so it was horizontal like that okay
3:15
so it goes in straight and then turns
3:18
okay and then now what we need to do is
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we need to
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um run a whole bunch of water through
3:25
so a couple gallons is what they say so
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i’m just going to get a pitcher
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okay so now we come up to where we our
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water dispenser and our ice maker
3:34
okay and all we do is we’re going to
3:37
um run some water through here
3:40
so when you do this you want to take the
3:43
water and run it through and
3:45
i have my my water pot this is a water
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pot that i used to water plants
3:50
uh we just planted a tree in the
3:52
backyard so rather than waste this water
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don’t just
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run the water and then throw it out in
3:57
the sink go ahead and try to you know
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capture the water and use it for
4:01
something else but you do need to run
4:02
this and watch there’s going to be air
4:04
pockets in here
4:05
when you do it so right now it’s just
4:07
kind of dribbling out before
4:09
there was a steady stream and i was just
4:11
kind of trying to get those air pockets
4:13
out okay
4:16
so we’re going to let it run for a
4:17
little bit
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okay
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so let me just take that dump it in my
4:31
in my water pot and just keep going let
4:33
it
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you know it’s going to take a little
4:36
while but once it runs
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clean then it’ll be fine because that
4:40
filter over time that filter is picking
4:42
up
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uh you know different pieces of debris
4:46
in there and so it’s kind of clogging it
4:47
so it’ll flow a lot nicer once you
4:49
actually change this
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uh this filter so go ahead and do that
4:58
okay
5:04
so i’m probably going to do about let’s
5:06
see for two gallons
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probably like 10 of these with this cup
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so
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and again don’t waste it just put it in
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your in your water pot or something else
5:18
make use of it somewhere else because
5:20
you know you’re going to
5:21
go through a little bit of water here to
5:23
to get that thing
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running uh running clean
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okay
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i’m not going to show you all this i’ll
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just show you it at the end but i’m
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probably going to run
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10 to 12 cups uh these large cups i
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think this cup is like a 24 ounce cup
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i’m just gonna run you know
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probably 12 12 of them or really until
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it starts running
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running clean okay this is cup number 10
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uh and it’s running pretty clear you can
5:57
see i don’t know
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you might be able to see that i’ll try
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to zoom in for you when i crop
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the video but um yeah it’s running nice
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and smooth
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like before you know i had all those air
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air bubbles in it that’s all
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done now it’s running out nice and clean
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so this is gonna i’m gonna go ahead and
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make this my last one then we’ll reset
6:15
that
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uh that light that warning light to let
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us know we need to change the filter
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i’ll show you how to do that real quick
6:22
all right like i said this light has
6:24
nothing to do with the filter other than
6:26
just a timer to let you know you need to
6:28
change it so uh
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you and all you need to do now is reset
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water filter so
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you know sometimes after you change
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something the light
6:37
automatically changes that’s not the
6:39
case with these you have to actually
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just reset it so it says to reset water
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filter status press light switch five
6:44
times so we just got to press this five
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times
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one two three four
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five there you go it’s green and it’ll
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it’ll go back
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off uh it’ll switch to yellow then it’ll
6:57
switch to red to let you know you need
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to get a
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filter to give you a little bit of
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warning and there you go that’s how you
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do that
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okay so i hope that was helpful for you
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um obviously each uh
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refrigerator is gonna be a little bit
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different i do see that that um
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particular filter fits on all kinds of
7:14
different refrigerators so
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um yeah if you were curious about that
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or
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um you know you might even have a
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different model but that might give you
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the confidence of the steps that you do
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need to go through because you want to
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flush that out
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uh yeah you want to flush the water
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through the filter before you actually
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start using it
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um yeah so hopefully that gives you the
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confidence to do it and thanks for
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watching and god bless you
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you

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