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Old 12-17-2007, 06:56 PM   #1 (permalink)
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My latest hot/filtered water set-up

I like to keep the truck looking good so I wash it twice a week, even in the winter. I can't stand looking at the truck covered with salt, but washing with cold water sucks. At my last house I had a two handled outside faucet that had hot water, it was nice but it was hard to get the temperature just right...so I decided to take it a step further at this house. I decided to go with just one filter for rust. I still need to tie this into the water main with a bypass so I can still just run cold water when I water the lawn, maybe I'll be done tomorrow.

Hot water is on the left, cold on the right. They both converge into a mixing valve and the line coming out the bottom is the tempered line, set by the mixing valve, no need to keep adjusting.



I put a water hammer arrestor on the hot line (cold one I'll put on the main just in case I get some water hammer. Water then travels down through the ball valve (now closed) and then through a strainer (hopefully catching some particles) and then through a check valve (you dont want hot water syphoning into a cold line).





Then the water goes through the mixing valve and out the bottom, I also put some color co-ordinated drain valves in. Some of the wall plates had to go in **** eyed becuase either there is some really hard stone in my foundation or re-bar but my hammer drill wouldnt budge it.



Then through the filter



Once I get it running I can check the pressure and temperture.





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Old 12-17-2007, 07:31 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Old 12-17-2007, 07:37 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Not yet, its not tied in on either end....I have a new frost free faucet I need to install, hopefully I'll have the time tomorrow. My wife was really not impressed though LOL


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Old 12-17-2007, 09:40 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Not yet, its not tied in on either end....I have a new frost free faucet I need to install, hopefully I'll have the time tomorrow. My wife was really not impressed though LOL


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Looks like a great set up. Let us know how it works
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Old 12-18-2007, 01:13 AM   #7 (permalink)
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thats sweet... now u can also take shower outside hahhaha...
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Old 12-18-2007, 05:54 AM   #9 (permalink)
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^^Funny you should mention that about a shower, at my last house I set up a shower I made in the garage (it was just some piping on the wall, but it had multiple shower heads) and it was hooked up by running a garden hose to the hot/cold faucet....it worked great on the kids when they were really dirty.


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Finished it today. Pressure is 80 pounds residual and 40 static (which it was before), I was a little concerned about excessive flow restriction due to checks, filter, strainers, etc. I set the temp at 80, it can go as high as 100 with the cold water on, 120 without.





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Old 12-18-2007, 12:16 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Old 12-18-2007, 04:39 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Wow, that looks like one complicated setup

Looks like a top notch job!
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Old 12-18-2007, 04:45 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Thanks. I washed the truck a few hours ago, it worked perfectly! The filter already has a darker tint to it and has some particles floating around in it...maybe this will work after all!


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Old 12-18-2007, 08:49 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Nice! how much boost can that setup handle??
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