Recent content by hoffmand

Thanks, Terry. I wanted to do a sanity check, just in case.

We've just added a sink to our laundry room. The finished setup is the same as Terry's diagram below, but without the extra vent for the washer. The plumber insisted this was not required for code (Texas) since the 2" drain/vent was big enough such that the drain from the sink would not affect...

Yes, whichever comes first, gallons or days.

According to the manual, the Autotrol 768 has 3 salt does settings, 3lbs/cuf, 9lbs/cuft, 15lbs/cuft. They call the 3lbs/cuft the "high efficiency mode". With 3 cuft of resin that gives you capacities of 44k, 75k, and 90k respectively. When I enter in 12gpg hardness it calculates how many...

I liked it better when we were talking about water softeners....

Thanks BTW, I have even more respect for you guys who have done this with older plumbing or no loops. It took an hour or two to get everything situated and my install is about as simple as it gets. Dave

Thanks guys. Even though it's just an insulating jacket, the SS does look nice. I'm paronaoid about potential leaks so I'll force a regen tonight after everyone goes to sleep. Is there any reason to do the first regeneration on a higher salt setting? Or is it fine to leave it on the...

Turns out the manager of the company that plumbed my house is a good friend of my neighbor and they also carry softeners. I asked him to crimp on some fittings to my PEX and this is what I ended up with: It's a 3cuft unit with an Autotrol 268/760 and 1-1/4" bypass valve. Our loop had the...

You're right, brass is probably the way to go. My new plan was to use 1" brass ball valves and 1" Falcon stainless lines, but according to their site those falcon lines are $35/ea. Wow.

I will have the softener there before I have a plumber come out. It won't cost much more to have him plumb the softener vs just crimping on the female adapters. If I'm going to use PVC for the pipes connecting the softener, I would want PVC adapters hooked on to the PEX rather than brass...

Thanks for the help everyone. Turns out that tools for 1-1/4 PEX are not something the smaller plumbers in my area typically have. They all recommended going back to the company that plumbed our house when it was built last year since they obviously have the tools. The ironic part about this...

Even if we never add some hard water back in, it will make her less resistant to know it can be adjusted back a little. Do i need to plan for that during my plumbing work, or is that handled with the bypass valve?

Thanks. Can you "trick" the softener into not softening down to 1gpg at first?

I mentioned 10gpg not being very hard because I see people with well water posting 20-30+ gpg. I'll give you a call to go over the specifics, but we don't have any crazy showers, just regular single-head, flow restricted showers. We do use the bathtubs for the kids so the most water we'd...

Peak or average flow rate? (sorry, still learning....)