Hi all,
I may be overthinking what I want to do here but I wanted to see what you guys thought before I start hacking stuff up.
First a little background-We had this house built about 2 years ago. About a year ago I added a softener myself, plumbing and all. The problem now is that since I did not opt for the soft water loop when we built (should have) is that my back hose spigot is now soft. Obviously this is a waste of soft water & salt and is not good for the soil long-term.
So what I am wanting to do is run a bypass line from the front of the house to the back spigot which is a 1/2" pex line.
My question is how to go about it. I will post some pictures so you can see what I am working with and hopefully follow along with me.
Ok so first off I have what I believe to be a 1.25" main which comes in the garage wall and is split into 2 lines, one is a 1" and one is a 3/4". They both run over the garage where the 3/4 was run into the water heater and the 1" was run and branched off for all the cold service. When I put the softener in I combined both these lines so that both hot and cold would be soft and as you can hopefully see from the pics I used 1" pex to run to and from the softener (which may have been a waste since the valve on the unit is only 3/4 I think.)
I have been debating two options:
1. Cut one of the lines and put another tee in and run off of that.
2. Separate these lines and just use the 3/4 line and just leave the 1" for the house.
I'm thinking if I separate them it shouldn't make any difference in the house pressure since it all has to go into 1" anyway. (Basically having the 3/4 tied in is redundant?)
Also I'm wondering if it would make any difference if I ran 3/4 back to the spigot vs. 1/2? I would rather use 1/2" because it's cheaper and easier to work with. The run will be about 40-50 feet. Will this make any difference in pressure? I can tell the difference when I use the front spigot, its a little higher.
So I just wanted to get some opinions and also see what you thought of my install. Since I'm gonna be up there again if theres anything I could/should do to make it any better.
Again I'm probably waaayy overthinking this but I only want to go up there once.
Thanks in advance!
Main entering house and splitting
My combining job in the attic
To and from the softener
Another view
Has to run way back there
I may be overthinking what I want to do here but I wanted to see what you guys thought before I start hacking stuff up.
First a little background-We had this house built about 2 years ago. About a year ago I added a softener myself, plumbing and all. The problem now is that since I did not opt for the soft water loop when we built (should have) is that my back hose spigot is now soft. Obviously this is a waste of soft water & salt and is not good for the soil long-term.
So what I am wanting to do is run a bypass line from the front of the house to the back spigot which is a 1/2" pex line.
My question is how to go about it. I will post some pictures so you can see what I am working with and hopefully follow along with me.
Ok so first off I have what I believe to be a 1.25" main which comes in the garage wall and is split into 2 lines, one is a 1" and one is a 3/4". They both run over the garage where the 3/4 was run into the water heater and the 1" was run and branched off for all the cold service. When I put the softener in I combined both these lines so that both hot and cold would be soft and as you can hopefully see from the pics I used 1" pex to run to and from the softener (which may have been a waste since the valve on the unit is only 3/4 I think.)
I have been debating two options:
1. Cut one of the lines and put another tee in and run off of that.
2. Separate these lines and just use the 3/4 line and just leave the 1" for the house.
I'm thinking if I separate them it shouldn't make any difference in the house pressure since it all has to go into 1" anyway. (Basically having the 3/4 tied in is redundant?)
Also I'm wondering if it would make any difference if I ran 3/4 back to the spigot vs. 1/2? I would rather use 1/2" because it's cheaper and easier to work with. The run will be about 40-50 feet. Will this make any difference in pressure? I can tell the difference when I use the front spigot, its a little higher.
So I just wanted to get some opinions and also see what you thought of my install. Since I'm gonna be up there again if theres anything I could/should do to make it any better.
Again I'm probably waaayy overthinking this but I only want to go up there once.
Thanks in advance!
Main entering house and splitting
My combining job in the attic
To and from the softener
Another view
Has to run way back there