Brook
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Background ... I live in a bungalow (single story house) over a 4 to 5 foot crawlspace with a rocky (bedrock) floor. My water supply is a 50' well with a significant mineral content ... mostly iron, manganese and calcium. And since it's a heavily treed area, a not insignificant amount of stinky sulphur. When we moved here 20 years ago, it had an abandoned iron filter using PP and a softener, that used bags of salt per week and that didn't get rid of all the minerals. Whoever put the original devices in plumbed them STRAIGHT into a DWV pipe 1/2" copper. Ouch!
So we decided on a new softener and an iron filter and asked that they plumb the discharge properly.
The drain to the septic system leaves the house about 16" below the first floor joists and the house main drain is horizontal about 12" below the joists. This winter we had several blockages in the septic pipe and the main drain (partly from freezing) and on several occasions the drains backed up and out of the standpipe pouring questionable water around the basement (since it's on bedrock it doesn't drain away too quickly!) Of course the main worry is back transmission of anything up the softener and filter's discharge tubes.
I've got to change that somehow! A few inches higher and it will flood into the shower and a few inches higher and it will be in the bathtub!
Any ideas? I'm wondering about another pumped out holding tank to get a little more height.
So we decided on a new softener and an iron filter and asked that they plumb the discharge properly.
The drain to the septic system leaves the house about 16" below the first floor joists and the house main drain is horizontal about 12" below the joists. This winter we had several blockages in the septic pipe and the main drain (partly from freezing) and on several occasions the drains backed up and out of the standpipe pouring questionable water around the basement (since it's on bedrock it doesn't drain away too quickly!) Of course the main worry is back transmission of anything up the softener and filter's discharge tubes.
I've got to change that somehow! A few inches higher and it will flood into the shower and a few inches higher and it will be in the bathtub!
Any ideas? I'm wondering about another pumped out holding tank to get a little more height.
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