Meredith's 180 In-wall happy place

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I'm just popping in before work to say that my happy place is all WET!

I left the RODI running all night and flooded, not only the fish room but the living room as well! Dangit. I also have a few flaws in my mixing station design that I have to work out. OH and the pump for it doesn't work anymore. :( So, I gotta get a new one.
 
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melypr1985 said:
I'm just popping in before work to say that my happy place is all WET!

I left the RODI running all night and flooded, not only the fish room but the living room as well! Dangit. I also have a few flaws in my mixing station design that I have to work out. OH and the pump for it doesn't work anymore. :( So, I gotta get a new one.
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Brutal sorry to hear you flooded the place. Been there and done that like 3 times now and told myself I will never allow that to happen again, cause it seems to happen at the worst time possible. So I only run the ro unit when I am at home and awake unless the 150 gallon resivour is empty or close to empty then I will let it run over night when I'm sleeping. Good luck with the cleanup and great start with the 180.
 
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Sorry to hear about the flood. I had just finished admiring your work. Keep it up and it looks incredible so far. Clean up time and hope these no major damage.
 
melypr1985 said:
I'm just popping in before work to say that my happy place is all WET!

I left the RODI running all night and flooded, not only the fish room but the living room as well! Dangit. I also have a few flaws in my mixing station design that I have to work out. OH and the pump for it doesn't work anymore. :( So, I gotta get a new one.
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Oh no! So sorry to hear this and hope the cleanup isn't too bad.
 
melypr1985 said:
I'm just popping in before work to say that my happy place is all WET!

I left the RODI running all night and flooded, not only the fish room but the living room as well! Dangit. I also have a few flaws in my mixing station design that I have to work out. OH and the pump for it doesn't work anymore. :( So, I gotta get a new one.
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Oh no!!!! I hope you get it cleaned up without too much damage!
 
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DereksReef77 said:
Brutal sorry to hear you flooded the place. Been there and done that like 3 times now and told myself I will never allow that to happen again, cause it seems to happen at the worst time possible. So I only run the ro unit when I am at home and awake unless the 150 gallon resivour is empty or close to empty then I will let it run over night when I'm sleeping. Good luck with the cleanup and great start with the 180.
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Yup, totally forgot that I turned it on! I usually tell my husband so that he will at least check it or ask me if I turned it off. Dangit.
Thanks for the complement.
tripdad said:
Ouch, that sucks. I hope no real damage was done to your home. Tank is coming along nicely.
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No major damage so far. The fish room is still pretty damp considering the humidity in there, but it's ok. Just a lot of wasted water and time. Oh and thanks!
Leadfooted said:
Sorry to hear about the flood. I had just finished admiring your work. Keep it up and it looks incredible so far. Clean up time and hope these no major damage.
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Thank you. So far, no real damage done.
Mike&Terry said:
Oh no! So sorry to hear this and hope the cleanup isn't too bad.
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It's not too bad so far :)
Brew12 said:
Oh no!!!! I hope you get it cleaned up without too much damage!
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I'm about to finish up working on that.
cameronh said:
Oh my...........sorry to hear that.
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Thank you.
Bronc said:
I have a dirty mind so I'm just going to leave that one alone! :eek:
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HAHA!!! :D
 
rayn said:
Well that sucks! Done it myself a few times.

Hope all gets cleaned and no damage done.
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Yup. I"ve done it a hundred times, but before I had the RODI container sitting on my washing machine so when it overflowed it did so into the machine and out of the house. This time I really have to be on the ball.
 
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This looks like a fun build, tagging along. The RODI overflow - yeah I was lucky the MANY times I did it - always a harmless area. Now I finally have a proper RODI/mixing station set up with a float valve cut off when the RODI tank is full. Oh AND an emergency overflow drain a little higher than the float valve, just in case.
 
don_chuwish said:
Oh AND an emergency overflow drain a little higher than the float valve, just in case.
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OK!! That's a pretty great idea! Where were you when I was putting this together? lol I do plan on working on this today some. I have a friend with another pump that he isn't using, so hopefully it will work well for my setup. I do have a float valve that I should set up pretty darn quick instead of letting it collect dust!
 
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don_chuwish said:
FWW: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/finally-going-big-120g.211632/#post-2737260
I was making RO last night actually and completely forgot about it. Full tank in the morning and no worries.
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Nice set up and really nice build! I'll have to look through it more later for sure.

This was my first attempt at a mixing station and I made some head-way into fixing the issues I ran into. I'll be installing a float valve (which I already have) and making sure my husband knows the water is running so he can make sure I don't forget.
 
Well, like I said I've managed to get some work done to improve the mixing station. Unfortunately I made some dumb mistakes when putting it together. You'll see the ball valves that I added in these pictures (red handles) and the unions? so that the whole thing can be taken apart without draining it. The valve on the top there was a BIG one that I just didn't think of. Without it, I can't get RODI water from the spigot there without it also going into the salt mixing bin. THAT was dumb! That problem is fixed and I need to get up there and put the float valve in place.
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I'm going to get the new pump tomorrow at work so that's next. Hopefully this time everything works and I don't have to do this all again. Cutting and gluing pvc isn't what I would call fun. :rolleyes:
 
I used to flood the house regularly. Now I have float valves on everything the RO goes to as well as valves to shut it off. I treat the float valves as backups for my brain that forgets to pay attention. I don't rely on them long term.
 
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Lynn52 said:
I used to flood the house regularly. Now I have float valves on everything the RO goes to as well as valves to shut it off. I treat the float valves as backups for my brain that forgets to pay attention. I don't rely on them long term.
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Yup. Before I would overflow all the time, but that was a 5 gallon jug sitting on top of my washing machine. Not much of a problem so I got lax and comfortable. I have a shut off valve for the whole system and the float valve will go in before I turn the machine back on. Until then I have about 25 gallons of water made, so I'm solid for a while. :)
 

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