highoctane
New Member
Hello everyone! I came into the forum to seek for some help and information if possible. Sorry for the first long post.
We just brought a small spec home and adding a hookup (ball valves) with drain for a water softener was not a package that we can have add onto. So now, I am trying to find the best possible way to add the system into the home but the drainage it the difficult part of the equation.
History: This is what I built with my wife help while we were living at an apartment and is still currently using now. Kinda of a self contain unit that we have to regenerate 1-2 times a week depend on usage for our family of 3.
Current: With the new home, water inlet came through a wall on the garage and run up into the attic by PEX. Therefore, I would like to put the softener up in the attic above the garage. Reasoning is to keep it out of the way since I have a lot of tools and tool boxes that I would like to line the wall up with. Also inlet access to the PEX is easier.
Now come the questions:
We just brought a small spec home and adding a hookup (ball valves) with drain for a water softener was not a package that we can have add onto. So now, I am trying to find the best possible way to add the system into the home but the drainage it the difficult part of the equation.
History: This is what I built with my wife help while we were living at an apartment and is still currently using now. Kinda of a self contain unit that we have to regenerate 1-2 times a week depend on usage for our family of 3.
Current: With the new home, water inlet came through a wall on the garage and run up into the attic by PEX. Therefore, I would like to put the softener up in the attic above the garage. Reasoning is to keep it out of the way since I have a lot of tools and tool boxes that I would like to line the wall up with. Also inlet access to the PEX is easier.
Now come the questions:
- There is a vent stack for the washer next to the garage, it is 2" from the floor and run up ~2.5' to a clean out before reducing to 1.5" running up to the ceiling and roof. But I believe it is bad to t into this even if I set up a proper p-trap. Also, there is the possibly of pulling the water out of the p-trap of the washer when regeneration occurred? So a no-no correct?
- How about running a pvc down through the ceiling and drain into the clean out? Easy to accomplish and I can cover the pvc up with some cabinetry. Will the drain from the softener cause enough suction to pull water out of the p-trap for the washer?
- Drill a hole through the double plate 2x4 and run a pvc inside the wall, cut a section out of the sheet rock and t it into he washer drain. But I don't like this idea if I can help it because of the sheet rock repair and its textured finished surfaces.
- Run a long pvc across to the other side of the house, down the soffit and tap into the main drain clean out. I wish the main drain clean out is on the same side of house as the water inlet is.