RO unit.... yeah I flooded my bathroom

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Yeah so I got a RO unit the other day so I can finally start making my own water. Hooked it up to the bathroom sink and set a 5 gallon jug next to the sink to fill up. Then I forgot about it and when I went to go to the bathroom the floor was soaked.

How do yal have your RO units set up? do you just have it hooked up to massive storage tanks? I'm trying to think of a way to know when the bucket I'm filling up gets full so this doesn't happen again.

My girlfriend (who lives with me) was not happy to say the least :lol:
 
I've left mine on over night a couple of times. You talk about a mad wife!!

Now I just set the timer on the stove when I make a jug of water. It takes about 1 1/1 hours to fill one up for me.

You can also by an alarm that sits on the floor and it will go off when I gets wet. I have one but have never used it.
 
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I've left mine on over night a couple of times. You talk about a mad wife!! Now I just set the timer on the stove when I make a jug of water. It takes about 1 1/1 hours to fill one up for me. You can also by an alarm that sits on the floor and it will go off when I gets wet. I have one but have never used it. said:
cool I guess I was overthinking it... I was going to wire up a float switch to an alarm of some sort.

Timing how long it takes to do a container is a lot easier.

Thanks
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haha, not laughing at you, laughing with you, i have done it on MORE than one occasion, lol...good times...im just glad im not the only one...

i do use a large 100 gallon storage container but still do it. i all but stopped the problem by buying a leap fron which is what is mentioned above. except last weekend when i forgot to put it down and forgot to set the timer, lol...been there done that as have anyone that has a RO, lol

set a timer and buy the above leap frog and you should limit it as much as possible. good luck!
 
I've flooded the pantry and kitchen many times. For me, it takes about 1 1/2 hours to fill a 5g jug and I use a timer. Sometimes I turn off the timer but forget to turn the water off :oops: I now sit the jug on the washer and any overflow collects in the washing machine. I also put waste water in the washer and use it for laundry.

Mark
 
i use a float valve that bulkreefsupply.com sells ... it works great and makes it so much more pleasant for me - thanks.
 
Ditto on what Dennis said, since you are already in the bathroom I assume there is a tub or shower. As long as the hoses are long enough just set it in the the tub or shower and it if it over flows no big deal.
 
:lol: I read this thread out loud to my wife. She kept asking me if I wrote the above overflow situations. It's funny, since I've just over filled a 5 gal jug tonight. I've got those frogs(forget to use them) and use a digital timer, but I still make a mess occasionally. All this time, I thought I was the only one doing this. :lol:
 
Back in Shreveport my laundry room was big enough to keep a big trash can with an auto shutoff. It was great. Unfortunately our current laundry is tiny, it is so small we had to stack our washer/dryer so they would fit. We probably would have never bought this house if we would have known how small the laundry room was, but that is hindsight.

I like the idea of using the waste water but we just got new LG steam washer/dryer set so there is no way to use the waste water for washing.
 
At home depot you can get a timer and hook it up to the water hose.

http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10051&productId=100060679&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&cm_mmc=affiliate_sortprice-_-product_feed-_-D28X-_-100060679&cpncode=12-66518618-2&cj=true&srccode=cii_16435691&locStoreNum=6833&marketID=16

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Then you can test calculate, and set the timer to 45 minutes or whatever you figure it takes to fill a 5 gallon jug.

Thats what it do and it works great!

AND

you can get a splitter and split to water to fill 2 or more water jugs at once and adjust the timer accordingly.
 
A word of caution, any mechanical/electrical system will fail! :shock: I have used the timers on my outside hose bibs and they last about one year and then will hang in the open position.
 
I have a trashcan in my laundry room and just drape the tube into it from the sink when I make water. I noticed when I turned it off that there wasn't as much water in the trashcan as I had expected but didn't really think much about it.

The next day my wife noticed a wet spot on the floor in our bedroom and called me. We had a problem last year where we had a leaky pipe in the wall (trim guys hit it with a nail) so I told her to call the plumber. $360 later he told us we didn't have a leak and that's when I realized that the tube had come out of the trashcan at some point so I had made water directly onto the floor which rolled straight under the cabinet and under the wall of the laundry room.

I got an estimate to dry everything out and it was $1,800.00 (if you're keeping track that would put me into this mistake for $2,160). I opted to just do it myself. I pulled the carpet back and put a couple of shop fans on it to dry everything out and it still took 3 days.

Needless to say, I am more careful about making water now. :)
 
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