05/23/2010 - 0 COMMENTS
Before: We have well (deep hole in the ground with a pump) water. That water naturally has quite a bit of iron, sulfur and other things you wouldn't want to wash clothes in or shower in since it would eventually put rust stains on your clothes and nobody wants to stand in the shower with the sulfur (rotten eggs) smell. So, for in house water we have a peroxide injected whole house carbon filter followed by a water softener. The goal: Convert one exterior faucet in to treated water so kids can play in a sprinkler or kids could fill a little pool with water. Wouldn't it be even better if you could control a hot/cold mix so that sprinkler or pool wasn't the same temperature as water found 550 feet under ground?
What we have is the hot on the right with 2 valves in it and cold on the middle pipe with 1 valve. The pipe on the far left attaches to the faucet outside. There is 2 valves on the hot side so that the top one serves as the on/off hot valve. Once we get the hot/cold mix about right, we don't want to really touch the two bottom valves anymore. Then when it's time to use filtered warm water outside we need to run down to the basement and turn on the hot side. You ask... Why not just have the 2 mixing valves and why do you need to turn off the hot when you're not using the faucet outside? It so happens you could get an undesired situation where... The faucet outside is off, then you have either the cold backfeeding through the hot here, or the hot feeding into the cold line here. By closing off the hot when not in use you eliminate that threat. Thanks for asking.. If your followup was... "I don't think that would happen..." I'm with you on that, but just to be safe.... valve..
A little more on where the exit pipe is going...
The red arrow points to where I capped off the old connection of the untreated water.. the red dashed line is where it used to run.
Now we should be able to turn it all hot and blow off the cars with hot pressure washer water.
That's great for in home use, but you wouldn't want to water the lawn or the trees through the whole house filtration system. So when they plumb the house, they run untreated water lines out to the exterior faucets. (when you run the hose it smells like rotten eggs and if you wash he car, it comes out spottyer than before you started).
Another side note, if you didn't treat the inside water, the minerals and sulfur would literally eat holes in the faucets and sink drains.
That's what we need here... little hot, little cold treated water hooked to the south side faucet.
