How to Clean Your Water Dispenser

Step by Step Instructions

1. Unplug water dispenser from electrical outlet
2. Drain residual water through cold faucet
3. Remove No-Spill device (if equipped), baffle, and spigots
4. Disassemble No-Spill device (if equipped), spray with degreaser such as 409, and scrub.
5. Wipe baffle with clean cloth.
6. Disassemble spigots and scrub clean
7. Remove ice ring (if present) from inside reservoir
8. Wipe out reservoir with a clean cloth
9. Reinstall baffle and faucets
10. Insert a rubber plug into hot tank opening (inside the reservoir) to prevent sanitizing solution from entering hot tank
11. Fill reservoir with clean water, add one (2) teaspoon 5.25% standard Clorox solution to produce 200ppm chlorine sanitizer and let stand 5 minutes (do not add more than 2 teaspoons clorox and do not use scented clorox)
12. Drain sanitizer through faucet(s) for at least 1 minute 
13. Flush with clean water
14. (If you suspect that the Clorox sanitizing solution may have gotten into the hot tank, remove hot tank drain, and allow hot tank to empty before flushing with clean water.  After flushing with clean water, re-install hot tank drain)
15. Re-Install No-Spill device
16. Install a new water bottle
17. Do Not Plug Unit into Electrical Outlet until water flows freely from spigot(s)

Cut-Away of a Reservoir (including No-Spill & Baffle)

Example of a No-Spill Device

Spigot