Ok first let's assume you will skip the idea of pumping it
from the basement up to the tank. You can use 5 gallon gas
cans to hall it up stairs. That's no worse than buying
lots of gallons of ro from the store, and hauling it home.

For plumbing from the ro to the drain (could be just
sending it outside), and plumbing to the collection
container, you can use aquarium airline for this. It will
easily hook up to the ro tubing, and will hold up well,
and takes up so little space, and can be tucked neatly
like you do a phone line. Only disadvantage of airline
tubing is that you can't put a lot of pressure on it like
a float valve. You can put a small drain line with airline
hose should the collection container become over filled.


Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets