Anyone have a whole house RO?
Looking at options, maybe a softener?
I am looking to connect my fridge to the RO feed but the sink is on the kitchen island so no way to run RO lines to or from there.
I would prefer to move everything to the garage anyways so I was thinking a pre filter setup (like water softener or a larger sediment filter) then 200g vertical tank and a pressure pump to maintain 50-60psi at the tap through the house. I see some systems for 11k+ and they use RO units that make 2000gpd but I am wondering why I can’t have a 300gdp ro unit keep the storage tank topped off.
From what I understand, a nominal size hot water heater is 30-50g. When you take a shower, you normally don’t spend more than 15-20 mins in there and normal flow is about 1.5 gpm. (20mins = 30g) that gives us some idea of how much water is needed. So with washing machine, toilet flushes and so on a 200g tank should be plenty of water for even a family of 4. Obviously I would need to set up a bypass RO membrane exit to make 0 TDS reef water.
Looking at options, maybe a softener?
I am looking to connect my fridge to the RO feed but the sink is on the kitchen island so no way to run RO lines to or from there.
I would prefer to move everything to the garage anyways so I was thinking a pre filter setup (like water softener or a larger sediment filter) then 200g vertical tank and a pressure pump to maintain 50-60psi at the tap through the house. I see some systems for 11k+ and they use RO units that make 2000gpd but I am wondering why I can’t have a 300gdp ro unit keep the storage tank topped off.
From what I understand, a nominal size hot water heater is 30-50g. When you take a shower, you normally don’t spend more than 15-20 mins in there and normal flow is about 1.5 gpm. (20mins = 30g) that gives us some idea of how much water is needed. So with washing machine, toilet flushes and so on a 200g tank should be plenty of water for even a family of 4. Obviously I would need to set up a bypass RO membrane exit to make 0 TDS reef water.