RO/DI in appartments

M88A2 · 12/03/2010, 01:26 AM

im going to be moving to an appartment in the very near future that does not have a hose in a friendly location. my question is, where does everyone who live in apparments hook up their ro/di filters?

blazin · 12/03/2010, 01:34 AM

I removed the aerator from the kitchen faucet and replaced it with a garden house adapter which allowed me to hook my RO/DI....worked no problem the whole time i lived there

shackman · 12/03/2010, 01:58 AM

I ran a T off of my toilet water line that fils the toilet tank and run it off of that. Works like a champ

dots · 12/03/2010, 02:02 AM

Remove the existing cold water supply from under the bathroom sink. Keep it to replace when you move.

Add one of these: (from Filter Guys) with some new braided stainless line

Store the unit under the sink. Don't mount it, so you can maintain it.

Get enough tubing to stretch the feed line and waste to the tub.

Get as many as you can of the 5 gal jugs with screw tops, and fill them in the tub. No overflow or flooding issues.

evsalty · 12/03/2010, 02:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shackman

I ran a T off of my toilet water line that fils the toilet tank and run it off of that. Works like a champ

Ditto and the drain is tapped into the sink drain. Ofcorse my RO/DI is in a closet just outside the bathroom so i had to drill a small hole in the wall but I can fill that when I move in the future.

devilsthird · 12/03/2010, 06:55 AM

You can get an adapter to run RO/DI off a bathroom faucet also.

Mrbeachbum2 · 12/03/2010, 10:49 PM

x2 with getting a bathroom facet adapter.

Dustin1300 · 12/03/2010, 11:03 PM

Like many said....Its easy to find an adapter but just gotta have the space to store your 5 gallon buckets. Guess I could not keep my two 44 gallon Brutes out in the open as my wife would kill me

Frogmanx82 · 12/03/2010, 11:03 PM

Fill buckets in the tub, save yourself a flooding incident. You will forget about the bucket, it will overflow. You can connect to any faucet or easily tap into a water line.

Mylilreef · 12/04/2010, 12:44 AM

i use a faucet adaptor. works great and easy to unhook so i can store the unit under the sink when not in use. my wife would kill me if that thing were sitting out all the time.

just make sure to set a timer. i can't even count how many times i have come back to it with a couple gallons on the floor. thank god i live downstairs!

Dustin1300 · 12/04/2010, 06:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mylilreef

i use a faucet adaptor. works great and easy to unhook so i can store the unit under the sink when not in use. my wife would kill me if that thing were sitting out all the time.

just make sure to set a timer. i can't even count how many times i have come back to it with a couple gallons on the floor. thank god i live downstairs!

That's why you put the buckets getting filled in the sink!

blazin · 12/04/2010, 06:59 AM

I fill into a 5 gallon home depot bucket with a float valve from BRS. best $15 Ive spent in this hobby. No forgetting, no worries.

xlotus123x · 12/04/2010, 11:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dots

Remove the existing cold water supply from under the bathroom sink. Keep it to replace when you move.

Add one of these: (from Filter Guys) with some new braided stainless line

Store the unit under the sink. Don't mount it, so you can maintain it.

Get enough tubing to stretch the feed line and waste to the tub.

Get as many as you can of the 5 gal jugs with screw tops, and fill them in the tub. No overflow or flooding issues.

thanks dots, just bought one from filter guys.

M88A2 · 12/05/2010, 11:34 PM

awsome ideas guys thanks for the tips.

b0bab0ey · 12/06/2010, 09:27 AM

I live in an apartment, and hook my RO/DI to the bathroom faucet using a garden hose adapter. The only issue I have is the pressure gauge never shows it going over 10 PSI. The instructions say the RO/DI needs to operate between 40-80 PSI. I even hooked it up to the garden hose outside, and still got nothing but 10 PSI. But the ratio checks out (4 to 1), and my LFS checked my RO/DI water for me and said it registers 0. I'm hoping the pressure gauge is just bad and that I'm not ruining the membrane/cartridge/filter in the RO/DI...

reef165 · 12/06/2010, 10:00 AM

Do you have laundry machine? I mounted mine above the washer, got a Y faucet adapter from HD to be able to hook up washer and RO/DI, then waste water goes down same hole as the washer drain. I had enouph room above my washer to put a 30 gallon tank on 3 of those heavy duty shelving brackets, with a float valve on the tank, and a bulkhead in the botom of the tank with a ball valve for filling a 2 gallon bucket. Could just put a 5 gallon bucket on top of the dryer too.

kduen · 12/06/2010, 02:26 PM

I to have mine in the laundry room. Wates goes into the washer and the bucket goes on top of the washer if/when I forget about it it just overflows into the washer and its time for some laundry.

Yaqngie · 12/06/2010, 04:51 PM

Yep laundry works best. Use the waste water for laundry and if you dont need to do laundry let it drain down the water line for the washer

Humu Humu · 12/07/2010, 10:17 AM

I use a refrigerator ice machine adapter under the kitchen sink. Ran 1/4" line to the closet where I have my tub, with the RO/DI unit hanging up on the wall so it's easy to see. I have a Spectrapure top off valve on the tub, with a valve in the closet on the inlet line so I can turn the feed off whenever want to. The top off unit works like a charm. Really, you can turn it on and go to sleep and forget about it. Check it in the morning, and the tub is full, turn the valve off. Works great.

12/03/2010, 01:26 AM	#1
M88A2 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA Posts: 682	RO/DI in appartments im going to be moving to an appartment in the very near future that does not have a hose in a friendly location. my question is, where does everyone who live in apparments hook up their ro/di filters?

12/03/2010, 02:02 AM	#4
dots Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 6,258	Remove the existing cold water supply from under the bathroom sink. Keep it to replace when you move. Add one of these: (from Filter Guys) with some new braided stainless line Store the unit under the sink. Don't mount it, so you can maintain it. Get enough tubing to stretch the feed line and waste to the tub. Get as many as you can of the 5 gal jugs with screw tops, and fill them in the tub. No overflow or flooding issues. __________________ ~Doug

12/03/2010, 11:03 PM	#8
Dustin1300 Reefaholic Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Carmel, IN Posts: 5,135	Like many said....Its easy to find an adapter but just gotta have the space to store your 5 gallon buckets. Guess I could not keep my two 44 gallon Brutes out in the open as my wife would kill me __________________ INDMAS President Check out my tank in the Large Tank Forums, "A Reefaholic's 1000+ Gallon Mixed Reef System Build"! Current Tank Info: 600 Gallon DT, 140 Gallon Grow Out Tank, 125 Gallon Sump, 90 Gallon Fuge, 200 Gallon Fish QT, 15 Gallon Frag QT

12/03/2010, 11:03 PM	#9
Frogmanx82 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Charlotte, NC Posts: 1,515	Fill buckets in the tub, save yourself a flooding incident. You will forget about the bucket, it will overflow. You can connect to any faucet or easily tap into a water line. __________________ Exodus 8:2 Check my homepage for tank pics and details. Current Tank Info: 90 gallon, 2x maxspect R420R LED, 4 Ocellaris Clowns, Yellow Eye Kole Tang, Flame Angel, Foxface Rabbitfish, Banggai Cardinals, Azure Damsel, rock flower anemone, cleaner shrimp, serpent star

12/04/2010, 12:44 AM	#10
Mylilreef Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Oklahoma City Posts: 304	i use a faucet adaptor. works great and easy to unhook so i can store the unit under the sink when not in use. my wife would kill me if that thing were sitting out all the time. just make sure to set a timer. i can't even count how many times i have come back to it with a couple gallons on the floor. thank god i live downstairs! __________________ -Cory Current Tank Info: 55g mixed reef (upgrading to 150g Tall), 30g Long w/softies(soon to be a sump for the 150g), 20g Tall mixed, 5g w/softies, 10g quarantine that somehow turned into another softy tank

12/03/2010, 01:34 AM	#2
blazin Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Phila, PA Posts: 285	I removed the aerator from the kitchen faucet and replaced it with a garden house adapter which allowed me to hook my RO/DI....worked no problem the whole time i lived there

12/03/2010, 01:58 AM	#3
shackman Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 273	I ran a T off of my toilet water line that fils the toilet tank and run it off of that. Works like a champ

12/03/2010, 06:55 AM	#6
devilsthird Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 63	You can get an adapter to run RO/DI off a bathroom faucet also.

12/03/2010, 10:49 PM	#7
Mrbeachbum2 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Minnesota Posts: 1,093	x2 with getting a bathroom facet adapter.

12/04/2010, 06:59 AM	#12
blazin Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Phila, PA Posts: 285	I fill into a 5 gallon home depot bucket with a float valve from BRS. best $15 Ive spent in this hobby. No forgetting, no worries.

12/05/2010, 11:34 PM	#14
M88A2 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA Posts: 682	awsome ideas guys thanks for the tips.

12/06/2010, 09:27 AM	#15
b0bab0ey Moved On Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 2,564	I live in an apartment, and hook my RO/DI to the bathroom faucet using a garden hose adapter. The only issue I have is the pressure gauge never shows it going over 10 PSI. The instructions say the RO/DI needs to operate between 40-80 PSI. I even hooked it up to the garden hose outside, and still got nothing but 10 PSI. But the ratio checks out (4 to 1), and my LFS checked my RO/DI water for me and said it registers 0. I'm hoping the pressure gauge is just bad and that I'm not ruining the membrane/cartridge/filter in the RO/DI...

12/06/2010, 10:00 AM	#16
reef165 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: gresham, OR Posts: 125	Do you have laundry machine? I mounted mine above the washer, got a Y faucet adapter from HD to be able to hook up washer and RO/DI, then waste water goes down same hole as the washer drain. I had enouph room above my washer to put a 30 gallon tank on 3 of those heavy duty shelving brackets, with a float valve on the tank, and a bulkhead in the botom of the tank with a ball valve for filling a 2 gallon bucket. Could just put a 5 gallon bucket on top of the dryer too. __________________ Who said it was easy to have a reef in your livingroom? Current Tank Info: 150 gallon

12/06/2010, 02:26 PM	#17
kduen Registered Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Panama City, FL Posts: 684	I to have mine in the laundry room. Wates goes into the washer and the bucket goes on top of the washer if/when I forget about it it just overflows into the washer and its time for some laundry.

12/06/2010, 04:51 PM	#18
Yaqngie Registered Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: ILM, NC Posts: 85	Yep laundry works best. Use the waste water for laundry and if you dont need to do laundry let it drain down the water line for the washer

12/07/2010, 10:17 AM	#19
Humu Humu lost in the pelagic zone Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Chicago Posts: 207	I use a refrigerator ice machine adapter under the kitchen sink. Ran 1/4" line to the closet where I have my tub, with the RO/DI unit hanging up on the wall so it's easy to see. I have a Spectrapure top off valve on the tub, with a valve in the closet on the inlet line so I can turn the feed off whenever want to. The top off unit works like a charm. Really, you can turn it on and go to sleep and forget about it. Check it in the morning, and the tub is full, turn the valve off. Works great.

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