Fridge water line.

[Aragorn84]

I'm currently doing up the kitchen, and as part of this the missus has decided she wants an american style fridge. We managed to get one on gumtree for a sensible price, and i was happy, until i realised i was going to have to plumb the bloody thing in!

Unfortunately the fridge will be positioned on the other side of the kitchen from all the existing water pipework. We currently have the ceiling down, so i was going to run a pipe up and across the ceiling, however this will mean the pipe needs embedded in the wall where it goes up and back down.

I've read that i'm not allowed to plaster the water pipe into the wall so hoping someone can give me some pointers on how to achieve this.

Can i run the pipe inside some sort of ducting in the plaster for instance? If so, what would be best to use?

Thanks

 

[Burnerman]

Its usually a 10mm dia flexible pipe thats used to supply these things, I think.....for the cool drinks supply?
Run it inside any plastic tube that you can find, just for protection.
John

 

[Aragorn84]

Yeh the pipe didnt come with, but i believe its 1/4" LDPE stuff, theres lots of folks selling it on ebay.

So i could plaster some standard Hep20 or similar into the wall and feed the supply line through that?

 

[Burnerman]

Sure, I can't see any issue with that! I generally use 20mm overflow pipe.
John