RO/DI

[BIGBIRD123]

This is just a thought and I was wondering if anyone has tried this or is it possible...

Can you send your waste water from the unit to the water heater in your house? Any thoughts or help will be greatly appreciated.


Steve

[GaryP]

Nope, there is enough pressure in your water heater that it wouldn't flow. You would end up having hot water flowing back into your RO unit.

Typically a water heater is going to be close to line pressure (about 40-45 psi). The waaste water line of an RO unit is going to be a lot lower than that.

Gary

[BIGBIRD123]

Gary,
Thanks, it was just a thought. I forgot about the pressure. I guess I'll have to run in into a storage tank above my washer and gravity feed it for washing clothes. I can install the unit just above that.

Steve

[Tim Marvin]

It is good for drinking, plants, trees, ponds, and anything else that needs water. Waste water is a bad term. It should be called filtered water, and then purified water. The waste water has gone through a prefilter and carbon but didn't make it through the R/O membrane. It is probably better than Brita water.

[rocketeer]

:o Oh my gawd! You're right. I never realized how huch money I've spent on filtering water that's going down my drain! There's alot of it too. 10 gal/day or so wasted just for top off water.

I knew it wasn't bad water, I just never realised how good it is... or it never sunk in, or something... :oops:

[Tim Marvin]

Fill jugs and put it in the fridge. Water African Violets, and........

[rocketeer]

I know! I'll use it in my fish tank! :-D

[rocketeer]

Hey, I've got so much of this stuff that I won't even have to use the stuff that comes from the clean side of my membrane!

Sorry... I better go to bed.