The ice looks wrong
Why does the ice taste bad?
Bad-tasting ice is either carried in by the water or picked up in the bin, and the two can be told apart in an evening. Denver Sub-Zero Repair Experts starts with the cartridge and with the bin itself, because an ice store sits open in a compartment holding everything else you keep frozen.
Pattern
What we usually find
- A cartridge left in far too long. Carbon stops holding what it has taken up, and the taste it was hiding comes back concentrated.
- Old ice. A batch that has been in the bin for weeks takes on whatever is stored around it and thaws with that flavour.
- Strong food kept uncovered nearby — an ice bin has no lid worth the name.
- The house supply itself, which a glass drawn from a tap in another room will usually settle.
Most often first. Order comes from what the visits keep turning up, not from a count.
Sorting the water from the bin
Sub-Zero’s own test for a suspect batch is to make ice in a tray using a different tap and compare the two. If the tray ice tastes clean, the fault is downstream of the plumbing — cartridge, bin, or the air around it. If both taste alike, the supply is the subject and a plumber is the right call.
Washing, not repairing
Empty the bin, wash it in warm soapy water, dry it fully and let the machine refill. Judge the second bin rather than the first, because the first one still carries the old taste out of the mould.
Before you call
Two minutes, before anyone comes out
- Tip the bin out, wash it, dry it and let a fresh batch form.
- Replace the cartridge if the taste changed gradually rather than overnight.
- Freeze a tray of water from another tap and taste it cold.
Stop there. If that has not settled it by the next morning, call Denver Sub-Zero Repair Experts on (720) 903-2603 and the rest of the water path gets traced with a meter.
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