{"id":7768,"date":"2005-10-17T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/10\/17\/ice-maker-hookup\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:33:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:33:42","slug":"ice-maker-hookup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/10\/17\/ice-maker-hookup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Maker Hookup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, before I make a possible mistake, can anyone give me a good reason why I shouldn&#8217;t hook up my new icemaker with a polyethylene supply line? Most directions say to use copper, but there are many, many PEX kits available, and I can find no solid evidence as to why one shouldn&#8217;t use them. Just the  occasional &#8220;they leak&#8221; statements.<\/p>\n<p>Help?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, before I make a possible mistake, can anyone give me a good reason why I shouldn&#8217;t hook up my new icemaker with a polyethylene supply line? Most directions say to use copper, but there are many, many PEX kits available, and I can find no solid evidence as to why one shouldn&#8217;t use them.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-house","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13861,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768\/revisions\/13861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}