Wayne Sallee wrote:

I'd like to see why you can't put an RO in your house. Surely there is a
way to get one in your house.

Ok, we'll go over it again.

My house is a two story, but, because it's on a sloping lot, both floors are
ground floors. Living quarters are upstairs, which is also street level. The
aquarium is in the living room. Starting at one end of the top floor, we have
the living room at the front and the kitchen at the back. Next we have the front
hall(f) and dining room(b), next we have one bedroom(f) and two bathrooms(b),
and we have two additional bedrooms at the end. Water sources on this floor are
the two bathrooms and the kitchen. The kitchen and one bath "belong" to my wife
(really!) and the other bath is too small for installation of a filter, much
less the 32 gallon trash can in which I usually mix water.

Even assuming I could convince my wife to let me set up equipment in the
kitchen, there's no space left for the filter anywhere around the sink. That
leaves Elisabeth's bathroom.

This has two sinks, and there's enough room for the filter underneath one of
them, but there's no room for any sort of container for the water (the room is
very narrow). That pretty much does it for the upstairs.

The downstairs is complicated by the fact that it's below the level of the
sewage line, so any drain line must be pumped up to the street level. There's a
family room, half bath, furnace room, laundry closet, and garage down there. The
closest water supply to the tank would be the laundry. That backs onto the
furnace room, so the filter could be mounted in that area with a bit of trouble.
I would then need to find some place to set up the water container. The furnace
room is pretty full, what with the beer fridge, freezer, Elisabeth's yarn stash,
my quarantine tank and aquarium equipment, etc., but that's the best target for it.

Unfortunately, that leaves me with 25 gallons of freshly mixed salt water one
story below the tank and one room away from the stairs. Even assuming that I
take the trouble to set this apparatus up, I will still be faced with buying a
pump capable of pumping the water at least 15' up through at least 60' of
plumbing. All of the plumbing must be temporary, such that I can run a water
change in about 15 minutes and leave no trace (outside the furnace room) that it
has been done. Boring holes through the floors or walls is out of the question,
even if I were willing to do it. Having

So. If someone comes up with an RO filter that hooks up to the kitchen sink,
generates 25 gallons of water in 30 minutes, and doesn't cost the earth, I'm
interested. Until then, I'll keep doing work-arounds.

George Patterson
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