I'm planning to have a local water professional install a whole house backwashing carbon filter and water softener, but am wondering if there are any tips and tricks of what I should request in the installation that may not be standard?
From my research so far, I've come up on the following:
- Include a soft water hose bib after the softener for washing the car.
- Maybe add some piping and space after the water softener that can be connected to a utility sink?
- Add stainless steel bypass valves because the plastic bypass valves built into the Fleck or Clack valves tend to break? (I will want to bypass the carbon filter occasionally to flush the pipes with chlorinated water.)
- Add a boiler drain valve after the water softener that can be used for sampling water or adding a pressure gauge later on (?). I'm not sure if I would derive that much value from this if I have the hose bib.
Any thoughts on those, or any other tips and tricks that I missed?
From my research so far, I've come up on the following:
- Include a soft water hose bib after the softener for washing the car.
- Maybe add some piping and space after the water softener that can be connected to a utility sink?
- Add stainless steel bypass valves because the plastic bypass valves built into the Fleck or Clack valves tend to break? (I will want to bypass the carbon filter occasionally to flush the pipes with chlorinated water.)
- Add a boiler drain valve after the water softener that can be used for sampling water or adding a pressure gauge later on (?). I'm not sure if I would derive that much value from this if I have the hose bib.
Any thoughts on those, or any other tips and tricks that I missed?