Refrigerator saga - part 3

After they had finished getting the refrigerator into the hole, the lead guy informed us that he had not hooked up the water line for the ice/water dispenser because we had our own line there. We had read (I guess on another store's website, maybe Home Depot) that we needed to have a new water line, that they would not hook up an old water line. I guess Costco's rule is that they supply the water line, and since we had one already there, they wouldn't hook ours up... I wish they had said that up front because we would have been happy to remove ours and use their water line... but... they wanted to finish up quickly (see previous post).

So, one of us needed to climb into the hole behind the refrigerator to hook up the water line. We also wanted to put shims in behind the refrigerator to keep it from getting pushed too far back in the hole (the doors would hit on the countertop on the side if it was too deep in the hole).

We pulled the refrigerator out... I volunteered to go into the hole,  

... but Carl insisted (he said that he was afraid I wouldn't be able to get the fitting loosened).

There's not much room in there!

But he was able to get the water line hooked up. We also strategized what we needed to put behind the refrigerator so it wouldn't go all the way to the back, and I got some pieces of wood that we could put behind the refrigerator.

Then he had to get out!

We weren't exactly sure how wide the pieces of wood needed to be to put behind the refrigerator, so we made a stack of 4"x4" plywood pieces that the previous owner had left in the shed. We put a piece of duct tape around them to keep them attached, and tied a string so we could pull it back out and adjust it if needed once we pushed the refrigerator back in. We checked it, and found that we had made the stack a little too wide, so we removed one piece of plywood and that seemed to position the refrigerator just fine. We did a similar task on the side to keep the refrigerator from pushing too close against the left side counter as there is a on/off switch for the disposal (or "garburator" as the previous owner (Canadian) called it!) on that side.

Refrigerator in place -- hurrah!

We waited for 24 hours to be sure that it was operating and had cooled down and then moved all the contents out of the side-by-side into the French door refrigerator. Now we'll move the side-by-side to the casa at some point -- yet to be determined!