George, I can't put it in my home either. No basements in Texas and a wife
that decorates. There isn't a plumbing area that I can hook up an RO/DI nor
handle the water output.

I'll move in 4 or 5 years and I'll be keeping the aquarium in mind.



"George Patterson" wrote in message
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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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