Can you use your ro/di outside

[pumpdogs]

This might be a dumb question but I need to add a sink down my basement for my ro/di but until then me and my wife are going to be fighting for the washing maching cold water connection.Can I just disconnect my hose outside and use this spicket for my Ro/di until I get around to installing my sink?

 

[chImerAnz]

yes

 

[landragon]

Or get a "y" adapter for the washing machine nozzle and run one to each. The water pressure is gonna dissappear though to the RO membrane when a load is filling or rinsing.

EDIT. also many garden hoses leach things into the water stream that the RO will have to work at to get out.

 

[RicksReefs]

yes you can. my RO/DI is set up off the outside spigot. a hose adapter and john guest fitting allows me to run RO hose thru the wall into my storage tank in the garage (where my set ups are).

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

Get a "wye" with valves on it, and run your rodi and the washer off the same spigot. This is what I do.

 

[landragon]

You mean like this.

 

[afishyonados]

Elevated temperatures outdoors could encourage the biological activity within the R/O unit. This can be detrimental. If the carbon becomes biologically active, it's ability to remove chlorine are greatly reduced. This increases the liklihood of killing the membrane (tfc). Yes, the units indoors can also suffer from this issue, but bacterial activity is encouraged at warmer temperatures, such as outside.