How To Hook Up Plumbing Devices ?

[427HISS]

After 33 years, our Tempstar furnace is done for. The A/C is fine, but it's the same age and it's cheaper to replace it with the furnace. The water heater is working old, so I'll get a new one. It's funny that it was built by Montgomery Ward, similar to Sears and $99.00 and has lasted for 30 years !

I have questions.

I want to get a whole house filter.
We have a new water softner.
We're saltwater reef freaks, and I have a new 6 stage RO/DI filter system.

How do we keep from watering the lawn with great filtered, soft and expensive water ?

 

[matt_i]

Some localities have city water with a separate tap for irrigation only. Others don't. If you had that you are already there.

You can tee off prior to whole house filter, incoming line from well pump or city water....plumb this line with additional branches only to the irrigation feed (possibly it has a backflow preventer) and the exterior hose bibs.

If you had an unfinished basement this process is much easier. If you don't have that, the project gets more interesting and would require customized a solution for each hose bib in question. It sounds like a joke but it might be easier to go back outside of the foundation and trench thru the yard for yard-hydrants.

In any case some additional detailed info is going to be needed to get a better response.

 

[The Cobbler]

How do we keep from watering the lawn with great filtered, soft and expensive water ?

your outside taps are plumbed before the filter system , as often is toilets etc

 

[csp]

My sprinklers are on a separate feed from the main line, prior to the whole house filter. We have to filter for sand, so the irrigation has it's own mesh type filter to keep it out of the heads.

 

[nadogail]

I suggest you meet and conference with your plumber or lawn maintenance specialist, they generally have enough experience to provide good information.

 

[duneslider]

In my house all the hose bibs are run directly off the main line prior to the softener. We also have a stop and waste on the main line for the exterior sprinkler system. All interior plumbing passes through the softener.

 

[stevied916]

You would need to tap into the lateral coming from the main/meter to supply the irrigation. Just a note, you don't want to use the softened water for irrigation not just for the cost of running the softener but because it adds sodium to the water and will kill your landscape.

 

[kbs2244]

I would expect a house that old was plumbed with the hose bibs on there own, hard water, system

check if have a tee coming off the main before the softener
that is a good sign that a seprate system was installed
if it has a valve close it and see if you get water at the hose