Best Home Adds and Fixtures

bobfriesenhahn said:
Focusing on faucet/drinking water can save a lot of money, especially if the house plumbing takes this into account when the house is built. Clothes washers, showers, and exterior faucets take a lot of water and so filtering water to them would require more capacity and many more filter replacements.

Since water softening adds salt to the water, you would not want to water plants with it. So not good for a gray water system.
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Stop. You don’t need to comment on everything especially things you know nothing about.
 
Ddays said:
You can't filter iron out - you have to use a softener since the iron is dissolved in the water. Filters only remove suspended particles.
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Interesting thanks. So my softener should at least be bringing it down? I’m going to be replacing the Culligan unit this year that was in this house when we bought it. Any suggestions on good softeners for well water. Very hard water.
 
NPC 6060⁸42 said:
Interesting thanks. So my softener should at least be bringing it down? I’m going to be replacing the Culligan unit this year that was in this house when we bought it. Any suggestions on good softeners for well water. Very hard water.
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Depending on how old that softener is, the resin could be exhausted. It can be replaced but it's a PITA. The resin is a small plastic bead about the size of a ball point pen ball. When you spill them they're a bitch getting them all rounded up as they go everywhere.

all softeners work the same way - the differences in them are the controls on the top of the tank. there are a bunch of computerized models out there but I love the old school controls that run off a little motor thats bulletproof. I've been out of the residential softener business for over 15 years and out of the industrial/commercial stuff for 10. Lemme dig around some....
 
Ddays said:
Depending on how old that softener is, the resin could be exhausted. It can be replaced but it's a PITA. The resin is a small plastic bead about the size of a ball point pen ball. When you spill them they're a bitch getting them all rounded up as they go everywhere.

all softeners work the same way - the differences in them are the controls on the top of the tank. there are a bunch of computerized models out there but I love the old school controls that run off a little motor thats bulletproof. I've been out of the residential softener business for over 15 years and out of the industrial/commercial stuff for 10. Lemme dig around some....
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Appreciate it. Yeah the control valves keep sticking. The beads are definitely exhausted if the controller and valves were working I’d replace the resin beads and move on. When I was in California I sold tank exchange services for Rayne water i think they’re gone now. But they would deliver resins tanks weekly or bi weekly and bring them back to the warehouse and regenerate the beads in huge vats.
 
Ddays said:
Yeah it works but it’s inefficient as hell. Biggest reason why it’s not used on a large scale at desalination plants everywhere on the coasts


Bob, seriously you should just shut the fuck up sometimes. You have negative knowledge on this subject dumbass.

Water softeners DO NOT add salt to the water. Water softeners are ion-exchange devices - the resin beads in a softener are sodium rich and they exchange a sodium ion with iron ions dissolved in the water - thats what hardness is. It is not salt - it is sodium. And you'd have to drink a fucking bath tub full every day for it to affect you.

Just stop with the I know everything on every subject bullshit - it makes you look even dumber than you are
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Thanks for the positive feedback. I have spent quite some time on research regarding using gray water for watering plants given that my house's plumbing is designed for capturing grey water, and there is a water shortage. There are tens or hundreds of articles advising about long term harm to plants due to being watered with softened water. The impact is less when the water softening is based on potassium rather than sodium.
 
bobfriesenhahn said:
Thanks for the positive feedback. I have spent quite some time on research regarding using gray water for watering plants given that my house's plumbing is designed for capturing grey water, and there is a water shortage. There are tens or hundreds of articles advising about long term harm to plants due to being watered with softened water. The impact is less when the water softening is based on potassium rather than sodium.
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Thanks for the lesson Bob. I only ran a manufacturers sales agency that among other things, sold & serviced water softeners for hospitals. steel mills, schools, etc for over 30 years. What would I know. You probably read it on the internet so it must be true.

Please, by all means continue to enlighten us all with things you think you know aaaallllllll about
 
NPC 6060⁸42 said:
Could you tell me what whole house you’re using to remove Iron? We don’t have much here but it’s definitely there, and I’d like to remove it.
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What @Ddays said.

I have an inline filter to take out the big chunks, but even with a 5 micron filter you’re still going to have iron that makes it through.

That pre-filters water then goes through the ‘system’. When I change the filter it has a good amount of iron sediment in the filter and in the bottom of the filter housing.

The water we drink on a daily basis is from the counter top Berkey.
 
AZVAJKU said:
What @Ddays said.

I have an inline filter to take out the big chunks, but even with a 5 micron filter you’re still going to have iron that makes it through.

That pre-filters water then goes through the ‘system’. When I change the filter it has a good amount of iron sediment in the filter and in the bottom of the filter housing.

The water we drink on a daily basis is from the counter top Berkey.
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Ok thanks. We have a RO for drinking and cooking. We used a Berkey for years but couldn’t stand that big ass thing on the counter. Went with the RO and won’t ever go back.
 
AZVAJKU said:
What @Ddays said.

I have an inline filter to take out the big chunks, but even with a 5 micron filter you’re still going to have iron that makes it through.

That pre-filters water then goes through the ‘system’. When I change the filter it has a good amount of iron sediment in the filter and in the bottom of the filter housing.

The water we drink on a daily basis is from the counter top Berkey.
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At this point everyone's probably thinking I should shut up about water but here I go again....

there are 2 types of iron in water - ferrous (dissolved) and ferric (soluable, or in solution) Your pre-filter takes out the ferric and your softener takes out the ferrous. If the water is put in a tank and is allowed to absorb oxygen, it will drop out of solution and turn from ferrous to ferric. Thats why the inside of toilet tanks are often gross reddish-brown when you're on a well system.

OK, I'm tapping out on this. Bob can take over from here
 
Ddays said:
Thanks for the lesson Bob. I only ran a manufacturers sales agency that among other things, sold & serviced water softeners for hospitals. steel mills, schools, etc for over 30 years. What would I know. You probably read it on the internet so it must be true.

Please, by all means continue to enlighten us all with things you think you know aaaallllllll about
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I didn’t realize you were so uninformed on the topic. I’ll reread bobs answers for advice then.
 
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Just to break up the water talk lol. I added these to my 16' wide garage door along with wrapping the studs/shanks of the rollers with heat shrink tubing. The garage door is less noisy and I will be doing this to my 8' door next weekend.
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Have you looked at a product called Green Springs garage door hinges? These are replacement garage door hinges which include a tensioner spring which helps press the garage door against the door seal so it is more air tight. The tension also reduces rattling while opening or closing. These are on my list of things to do.
 
Ddays said:
At this point everyone's probably thinking I should shut up about water but here I go again....

there are 2 types of iron in water - ferrous (dissolved) and ferric (soluable, or in solution) Your pre-filter takes out the ferric and your softener takes out the ferrous. If the water is put in a tank and is allowed to absorb oxygen, it will drop out of solution and turn from ferrous to ferric. Thats why the inside of toilet tanks are often gross reddish-brown when you're on a well system.

OK, I'm tapping out on this. Bob can take over from here
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Great info, thank you!
 
OverlanderJK said:
As some of you may know I am currently building a house and was curious what some of you have added to your house that is a must have and some things you hate. I just finished framing the inside so now is the time to add as I do electrical and whatnot.

So anything that is a must have in a home that you added or would like to add?
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Run ethernet wire from every room (with rj-45 plugs) to a central closet or the garage if attached. Put a ethernet switch in that room and wire that to your broadband router. Then you don't need to mess with wifi.
A whole house fan or smart-vent system is also a great money saver for those warm afternoons where the house is hotter inside then outside.
I'd add a cigar room with ventilation and all the man-cave fixings so you don't have to sit outside in the cold/heat to enjoy a Cuban cigar.
For me, no carpets in any room. My current house had hardwood floors in the kitchen, main rooms, but not the bedrooms. I can use a dust mop on the hardwood and have it all swept in 5 minutes. The bedrooms, not so much.
Wire the garage for 220V so you can run a high-capacity compressor, welder and plasma cutter.
Run an hard air line around the circumference of the garage with several quick connects on each wall.
Add more electrical wall plugs to the walls. There are never enough in the garage.
Have plugs put into the garage ceiling so you can run those fluorescent tube style LED lights.
Get some reinforcement built into the garage ceiling so you can hang sliding/rolling hoist beams.
Definitely a wood burning stove inside the house. And maybe one in the garage.
Oh, and plumbing in the garage as well for a utility sink.
Pre-wire and install a switch panel for a generator.
 
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