A floor drain is generally located at the lowest point of the floor and it is used to remove standing water which could be caused by a leaking pipe water heater furnace washing machine water softener or a sump pump not working correctly.
Water softener drain line in laundry room.
And when the water softener and furnace condensate drain lines flow into the drain there will invariably be water running onto and ruining the finished floor.
According to most plumbing codes a water softener drain line must not be connected directly to the household waste system.
This was the set up with the previous owner.
Since the beads act as a sponge and absorb the hardness minerals from your water they.
So i bought a genesis revolution upflow water softener to install in my first house in laveen az.
A floor drain is one of your first lines of defense to help during a flood or faulty piece of equipment.
The airgap is in the laundry room upstairs.
I have the 1 sharkbite flex hoses for the inlet and outlet not a problem.
Drarchibald pa i have purchased a water softener that i m going to be installing in my basement.
Another necessity is locating your water softener near a drain.
We have a water softener loop already plumbed into the house.
The problem is there is no drain line in the basement nor a utility laundry sink since our laundry room is on the 2nd floor of our house.
The only floor drain you can buy is for flush mounting to the floor.
Installing water softener in basement no drain.
This question is about the drain line.
Regeneration is the process that washes the resin beads with a highly concentrated brine solution.
This is to prevent non potable water from flowing backwards possibly mixing and contaminating potable drinking water.
It has fexible 5 8 outside 1 2 inside drain line from the softener through the garage wall into the adjacent laundry room to the clothes washer drain dor the regeneration backwash cycles.
It ll also seep under the drain and eventually rot out the subfloor underneath the finished floor.