Water mixing station set-up
Water mixing station set-up
So with a major outlay of cash last week (and a lucky 10% sale at spectrapure for Memorial day) - I was able to pick up everything I need for my 2nd water mixing station.
Started last week by plumbing in the drain side of the laundry tub. I wanted a way to tee off the standpipe I had for the laundry for the laundry tub drain. I'm a pro at PVC - but this drain plumbing isn't quite like gluing pvc together - as it has those compression fittings. Also, the existing standpipe already had a trap - and I couldn't use the supplied piping as that would result in a double trap. Easier than I thought with a trip to home depot. Ended up using an
end outlet to make it work.
On Saturday - it was working on the copper soldering. I already had feeds in the garage outside the wall for the laundry - so I didn't think it was going to be as hard as it turned out. I had a 3/4" tiny outlet for the cold water and had 1/2" for the hot water. For some reason, the previous homeowner tied into the hot water to feed the refrigerator ice maker. I had switched it over to the cold with the funky contraption / garden hose wye you see on the valve on the right in the pics below.
The hot side went in like a breeze. the cold side - i probably spent a good 4 hours soldering and re-soldering. I had a lot of trouble getting the solder to stick to the 3/4" x 1/2" 90 / pipe. 2 trips to home depot to replace bent fittings. Turned out to just be a cleaning issue with the pipe I guess. Got it to stick around 9 PM that night. That made for a long long day.
Started plumbing up the fresh and saltwater containers on Sunday. Finished that up on Monday. Got them from Glenn Industries (of course). He's down on automobile blvd just off of Ulmerton (South of St Pete / Clearwater airport).
the spectrapure came in on Tuesday night - so I started getting that ready.
Glued foam to the back steel plate to dampen vibrations. Drilled all the bulkheads required for the fresh water tank (two floats, one flush, and one input). The input has a redundant float valve to stop the water from overflowing.
The glue was set by wedensday night - so I mounted everything up and started making water.
Water mixing station: Overall
My crappy copper work:
Spectrapure UHE 100:
Plumbing for the water mixing station:
